The Product Manager Coach Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

When Jane, a seasoned product manager, started her new role at a fast-growing SaaS company, she was ready to make an impact. Advanced Tactics: Stakeholder Mapping: Use tools like the Stakeholder Alignment Blueprint (available on jonihoadley.com) to identify key goals and concerns. Click here to download.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Which product feedback software should you choose for your SaaS? The choice is tough because there’s no single tool that covers all use cases. What’s worse, you will find multiple tools in each category, making it incredibly difficult to pick the tool that satisfies your needs and offers the best value for money.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 24, 2023

A customer feedback repository is the place you keep all your feedback data. What is a customer feedback repository? A feedback repository is a central location where product teams can collect and organize customer feedback. Gathering customer feedback is crucial for creating successful products.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 25, 2024

In today’s competitive landscape, customer experience (CX) stands as a cornerstone of success, particularly in the financial services industry. In our digital world, it has never been easier for customers to switch banks, wealth and investment managers, or financial technologies. And listen!

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Userpilot

APRIL 16, 2025

Help center software allows you to juggle feature rollouts, bug fixes, and user onboarding without keeping up with endless tickets. By using in-app support solutions for quicker issue resolution, you can maintain smooth experiences without sacrificing precious hours. What are the different types of help center software?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 1, 2022

We’ve all heard the term “ customer-centric ” in the context of running a successful business, but what does it really mean? From one perspective, it’s about creating value for customers, delivering an effective product at a good price. This is where customer feedback for sales comes into play. So let’s do something about that.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The problem with asking people to explain the processes and pain points they have within the B2B space is that, at its most basic, you’re asking someone how they do their job and people are a little too used to talking about this to think about it creatively without prompting. System two – slow, effortful and conscious thinking.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 19, 2024

“We’re not competitor-obsessed, we’re customer-obsessed. We start with what the customer needs and we work backwards.” – Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon. For product managers, the path to success—both on an individual level and for the company as a whole—depends on a deep understanding of their customers.

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

It takes a fair bit of effort and time to keep up with the constant innovation in the product management software space. The tools are constantly evolving and changing their pricing plans, so it may be difficult to ensure that your product team is using the right tools and getting the best value for the money.

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Userpilot

MARCH 14, 2024

Looking for customer analytics use cases that can significantly improve your SaaS? This article lists key use cases for SaaS and explains how to implement them to unlock customer satisfaction and product growth. We also cover: Customer analytics categories. Identify friction and remove it.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

One of the most powerful tools at your disposal in SaaS is in-app feedback surveys. If you can collect, interpret, and act on data that your users are sharing about their successes, problems, and how they feel about your product in general, you have a recipe for exponential customer growth and long-term user retention.

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Userpilot

MAY 22, 2024

Knowing what your customer does at different stages of their relationship with you can help increase engagement, loyalty, and customer retention. You can access this information through the right customer lifecycle management software. However, it’s not easy to pick a tool among the many suitable options in the market.

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Userpilot

JULY 4, 2022

Why should you adopt a customer-led growth strategy in your SaaS? Is it possible to increase user engagement by focusing on a customer-led growth strategy and hit the metrics you are hoping for? Specifically, we’ll consider: Three reasons why the customer-led growth approach is the best go-to-market strategy.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Interested in building a B2B customer journey map? At the very least, a journey map will help you easily analyze and make data-driven decisions to improve the user experience. It also helps align your teams by ensuring everyone is on the same page regarding customer interactions. What is a customer journey map?

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

From marketing funnel analysis to review funnel analysis, this article shows you the most important funnels for SaaS. Discover the critical stages of each funnel and tools that help you gather actionable insights. Create data-driven product roadmaps. Identify friction areas. Map out each stage in the customer journey.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 26, 2022

Building, designing, and improving a SaaS product is a beautiful, never-ending journey. What we’ve witnessed among our customer base is this: companies that continue to optimize their SaaS product tend to grow faster, and sustain their customer base long-term. The Ultimate In-App Feedback Strategy ??

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 18, 2021

In previous episodes, we’ve talked about how customer feedback and cross-team collaboration play a crucial role in the features and updates we build here at Intercom. Or rather, two – conversation topics and custom reports. I mentioned at the start our company values: obsessesing over our customer success. Thomas: Awesome.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Customer insights provide intelligence and analysis about customer experience, activities, and preferences. Therefore, they are vital for effective product strategies and ensure resource allocation aligns with customer needs. Purchase data to find conversion drivers that influence users to purchase a plan or upgrade.

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Userpilot

MARCH 4, 2025

Have you ever launched a feature only to see users drop off unexpectedly? Traditional analytics might reveal what happened, but not why. Real user monitoring (RUM) bridges that gap by tracking every click, scroll, and frustration signalsuch as rage clicks or slow load timesallowing you to identify where users struggle.

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Userpilot

JUNE 26, 2023

How to create customer feedback systems to gain insights into user needs ? TL;DR Customer feedback systems are frameworks for collecting, organizing, and analyzing customer feedback for actionable insights. NPS surveys track customer loyalty and provide insights into their satisfaction.

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Userpilot

MARCH 15, 2024

Want to conduct customer journey visualization but not sure what’s the best way to do it? This article shows you a step-by-step process for collecting customer data and creating easy-to-understand visual maps. TL;DR A customer journey map represents the steps users take when interacting with your brand. User emotions.

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2024

Looking to track and improve customer sentiment for your brand? This article provides a detailed guide, covering: What is customer sentiment, and why does it matter for your bottom line? Proven methods to collect valuable customer feedback , from surveys to social media monitoring. Analyze user sentiment on a granular level.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

If there’s one critical skill for product managers to nail, it’s customer activation. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll break down underlying customer activation strategies and actionable strategies, specific onboarding tools , and techniques, and tangible examples to learn from. What is customer activation?

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Userpilot

JULY 14, 2023

What is a product analytics framework and why is it important? We also look at: Different types of analyses to include in your framework How to develop a product analytics framework And, the best product analytics tools. Solid product analytics tools include Amplitude , Google Analytics 4 (GA4) , and Hotjar.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 6, 2022

How comprehensive is your SaaS company’s approach to customer communication? According to research conducted by PWC, one in three consumers would walk away from a brand they love after just one bad customer service experience. Setting and tracking customer service communication metrics.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

Crafting a winning product strategy is crucial for SaaS success, and finding the right product strategy example can provide all the inspiration you need. This article provides concrete examples of different product strategies employed by SaaS companies. There are 11 main product strategy examples in SaaS today.

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Product Talk

APRIL 21, 2021

Maybe not actively, directly supporting hate groups, but allowing them to flourish on their platform. Design with your customers, design with your constituents, not for them. Why are we continuously engaging with our customers? Why are we continuously engaging with our customers? But this isn’t the full story.

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Userpilot

JUNE 10, 2024

That also helps with customer retention. In this blog, we’ll discuss a few techniques and tools to identify user problems. TL;DR A user problem is something a user struggles with when trying to achieve a goal or complete a task. It helps you collect data on user needs , behavior, pain points, and preferences.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

With the right product research tools, you can dissect vast pools of data, gather actionable insights, and create products that align directly with your user’s needs. For that reason, we’ll go over 12 of the best tools you should use when conducting product research. Qualtrics. UXPressia.

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Userpilot

JULY 16, 2024

As a SaaS professional, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What’s tech product management?” We covered everything you need to know, from technical skills and responsibilities to a step-by-step roadmap for getting started. A traditional product manager prioritizes understanding customer needs and market trends.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In SaaS, acquiring customers through marketing is not enough for sustainable growth. That’s why customer engagement marketing is an essential pillar, as it provides the building blocks for making customers stay, engage , and eventually become loyal advocates for your product.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

How is the outcome-based roadmap different from regular roadmaps? Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes. TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. As companies scale, they often cannot satisfy customer needs equally well.

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Userpilot

MAY 29, 2024

Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur, a seasoned product manager, a UX designer , or simply curious about the process, this guide will walk you through the essential steps, best practices, and tools you need to create successful products. Lucidchart – best tool for customer journey mapping. Follow an agile mindset.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

With all the best practices out there, improving CX without a customer experience roadmap can get overwhelming. Building a roadmap can help you understand your customer’s point of view, determine the CX tactics you should apply, and prioritize the tasks with greater returns. Design the customer journey map.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

What is a data product roadmap? What roadmap metrics should you be tracking? We also share software products you can use to create a foolproof product roadmap and drive product-led growth. The difference between a data product roadmap and the traditional approach is the former relies heavily on data.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

A user needs analysis conducted with product analytics data lets you build products that address user pain points and exceed their expectations. In this article, we dig deeper into what user needs analysis is and how you can get started with it. Why do you need to analyze user needs? Book a demo now.

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Userpilot

JULY 22, 2024

An effective product expansion strategy is the fuel that propels a SaaS business forward. A well-executed expansion strategy leads to increased sales and market share, improved customer satisfaction , and better competitive advantage. Then, you can create an action plan complete with SMART goals , timelines, and an execution roadmap.

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