Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

Expanding on a recent post ( Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies ), I’ve been seeing lots of maker teams (product, engineering, design) struggling to form product strategies without a company strategy to hang them on.  Why is this so critical to Product Management and the larger maker organization? 

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Are you a product-led or sales-led kind of SaaS? Or perhaps you’ve managed to marry the two strategies and embraced product-led sales? If not, but you’d like to learn more, then why not watch the talk that Ben Williams , known as the Product-Led Geek, delivered at the recent Product Drive hosted by Userpilot?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Which Product Trends will take 2023 by storm? After the overnight success of Chat OpenAI, it’s no wonder predictions related to using AI and machine learning to increase our understanding of user behavior , greater automation of low-level tasks , and GPT-4 dominate Product Managers’ and Marketers’ projections for the upcoming year.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 2, 2019

Product are products, yes? When we talk broadly and generically about product management, we assume that all products/services are similar enough that we can apply the same tools, techniques, financial planning models, design approaches, goals and metrics. Think about automotive assembly line infrastructure.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

User adoption is essential for B2B SaaS companies, as it helps customers to learn about your product, adopt features , stick around, and nurture product growth. TL;DR User adoption is the journey in which a customer becomes a regular user of your product and makes it part of their life.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Your SaaS product’s free trial conversion rate is one of the most important growth metrics to track. That’s because an integral component of the product-led growth strategy is your ability to convert a free trial user into a paying customer. the focus is getting the user to reach value before the trial ends.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

User adoption is essential for B2B SaaS companies, as it helps customers to learn about your product, adopt features , stick around, and nurture product growth. TL;DR User adoption is the journey in which a customer becomes a regular user of your product and makes it part of their life.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

Is your B2B product easy to sell and easy to renew? I realize not every product person has to navigate sales stakeholders. But if you’re working on a B2B product with a sales force, odds are you know what I mean. But if you’re working on a B2B product with a sales force, odds are you know what I mean.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Product managers are all about prioritization. The items that deliver the most value to a product’s reputation, help the product achieve its goals and improve KPIs are the ones that we continually slot at the front of the queue. It’s our job to skip over the features that only apply to a couple of customers.

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Gainsight

JULY 20, 2022

In the world of product development, we call this process user segmentation , and it’s just as useful for product managers trying to understand their audiences as it is for audiences trying to understand TV show awards. . Or, they might be based on the users’ actual behavior in the product. What is user segmentation, exactly?

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Growth rate, gross margin, and other traditional metrics matter greatly. But software leaders have increasingly recognized the importance of a new metric unique to the SaaS world, Net Dollar Retention (NDR). If you want to dive in more on why Dave thinks NDR is the new metric, see his SaaStr presentation here.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Guest Post by: Vivek Karna (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, John Masterson]. As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. . Introduction. Understanding the Role Definition.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

I’m often asked what KPIs B2B/enterprise product folks should use, or what OKRs they should choose. This is (of course) an unreasonable question, as every product/ business has its own uniqueness. Why KPIs from consumer companies don’t fit well with B2B/enterprise. 1] Generic KPIs?

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Product managers, product leaders, and product executives have no shortage of educational opportunities. From books , podcasts , and blogs to earning certificates and joining online communities , there is truly an abundance of options (read the short Guide to Product Management Resources to learn even more).

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

However, our State of SaaS Product Onboarding study we did in 2020 (2021 report coming soon!) Of the 1000 companies we signed up for to study their onboarding, 73% of B2C companies offered a free or freemium product, and 86% of B2B brands offered a free trial instead of freemium. So Freemium isn’t dead.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 2, 2019

In practice, that means that most customer success tools have to offer a range of different features. Some of the features that customer success tools will provide are: Customer engagement analytics. Product usage tracking. Other features might include ways of communicating with customers, or automation of key workflows.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 26, 2020

To find out how support leaders are navigating the current landscape, we surveyed a random sample of 593 support managers across both B2B and B2C and industries like education, retail, healthcare, and tech. For enterprises that have more than 3,000 employees, they’re 50% more likely to want to make that transition.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

Guest Post by: Merziyah Poonawala (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Joni Hoadley]. A startup development team consisting of a product manager and two offshore engineers was facing major challenges in meeting client deliverable deadlines – repeatedly. THE CAUSE. THE EXPERIMENTS.

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Userpilot

MARCH 31, 2022

Many SaaS companies don’t give enough importance to the SaaS velocity metric, yet it’s one of the key sales metrics. However, it’s always better to use the metric as a guide to set practical sales goals and know the probability of achieving them. It’s a vital metric for all businesses, regardless of the size.

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Userpilot

MARCH 15, 2022

Why a go-to-market strategy plays an integral of your SaaS product success? You’ve done the hard work of building a product or a specific feature that people want. Successful product launches stand on the back of an effective GTM strategy. The next step is actually getting it to them. Let’s get started!

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2022

Selling software isn’t the same as selling any other product/service, that’s why a SaaS marketing plan can be a valuable asset. Unlike the traditional marketing plans that focus on only attracting prospects, SaaS product marketing helps you stand out in the market and looks at every stage of the customer funnel.

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Innovatemap

AUGUST 26, 2020

If you’re founding a tech company today, there’s a good chance you’re familiar with product-led growth (PLG) and ready to build your product with that in mind. If not, you’re probably thinking “I just want to grow like Slack did” or “I want people to start using my product without a lot of hand-holding.” Key product functions.

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Gainsight

JUNE 28, 2021

In many B2B companies, the gross retention rate and net retention rate are the key performance indicators of the business, so most companies like to put other leading indicators or checks in place to track the customer’s health. Chances are you might be using a metric or even a score to measure customer health.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Looking for an effective new customer onboarding tool and wondering if GainsightPX is the best option for your SaaS company? In this article, we’ll delve into precisely that – helping you determine whether GainsightPX is the ideal choice for your new customer onboarding needs. Let’s get started!

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

According to a B2B Marketing survey, two-thirds of marketers are making CX a priority in the next twelve months. Of the B2B companies that are fine-tuning their CX strategy , they are said to have strong revenue growth and ROI, reporting more than a 2x return on their investment. B2B CX: Beyond customer surveys.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 12, 2021

Her team manages nine B2B products across 4,500 accounts in the Americas. In the past year, she has seen an increase in small and medium-sized businesses’ interest in all products, especially e-commerce. Nick: Which of these tools or initiatives were you able to launch at scale to help educate customers about your products?

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Looking for an effective onboarding automation tool and wondering if GainsightPX is the best option for your SaaS company? In this article, we’ll delve into precisely that – helping you determine whether GainsightPX is the ideal choice for your onboarding automation needs. Let’s get started!

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 20, 2020

And in the world of Business-to-Business (B2B) relationships, we have learned how critical our clients are to making it through ups and downs. Net Dollar Retention Becomes THE Metric. Most public companies now disclose the metric, and analysts and money managers know to ask about it. Often we see: Product teams build features.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

It’s based solely on customer touchpoints , meaning the ad (usually in the form of popups and modals) is triggered by specific user action within the site/product. Leverage feature tagging to monitor how customers interact with features. Product limits. Additionally, try Hotjar for session recordings and heatmaps.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Looking for an effective feature adoption tool and wondering if GainsightPX is the best option for your SaaS company? In this article, we’ll delve into precisely that – helping you determine whether GainsightPX is the ideal choice for your feature adoption needs. Looking for a Better Alternative for Feature Adoption?

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Compared to one-time-purchase software, SaaS products offer a few key benefits. Another core benefit to digital products is that it’s possible to improve the user experience over time (such as by adding new features or upsell Digital products make it possible to improve the user experience over time. opportunities).

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Looking for an effective product adoption tool and wondering if GainsightPX is the best option for your SaaS company? In this article, we’ll delve into precisely that – helping you determine whether GainsightPX is the ideal choice for your product adoption needs. Looking for a Better Alternative for Product Adoption?

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. Each functional group has its own product priorities, so each wants a different roadmap. More here.)

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Usersnap

JULY 18, 2021

“A customer support is a range of customer services to assist customers in making cost effective and correct use of a product. It includes assistance in planning, installation, training, trouble shooting, maintenance, upgrading, and disposal of a product.” Guiding customers through onboarding-workflows. source: Wikipedia ).

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Looking for an effective product experience tool and wondering if GainsightPX is the best option for your SaaS company? In this article, we’ll delve into precisely that – helping you determine whether GainsightPX is the ideal choice for your product experience needs. Looking for a Better Alternative for Product Experience?

Analytic Tools 52

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

We’ll explore its features, pricing, and offer a comprehensive review to aid in your decision-making process. TL;DR GainsightPX is a good choice for interactive user guides and it comes with features such as user segmentation, onboarding checklist, tooltips, and in-app messaging. Let’s get started!

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Userpilot

MARCH 14, 2024

We’ll explore its features, pricing, and offer a comprehensive review to aid in your decision-making process. TL;DR Heap is a good choice for user analytics and it comes with features such as user segmentation analysis, survey analytics, user journey mapping, and behavioral analytics. Let’s get started!

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