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.

Technical Review

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.

Weak Development Team

Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Working as a product trio can be a major transformation. Making the shift to product trios involves changing everything from the coworkers you collaborate with most closely and your communication style to the mindset you bring to work every day. – Tweet This The product team at Botify knows this all too well. What works well?

Product Research

Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Over the past year, Phil Carter has been developing a framework for growing consumer subscription businesses, called the Subscription Value Loop. This makes products less sticky and retention more difficult.

User Testing

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Users are recruiting your product to reach a specific outcome in their lives — whether that’s catching a flight to reunite with their families or using a productivity app to meet a deadline and impress their boss. But despite how relevant the topic still is, we’re not just here to talk about the ideal onboarding experience.

Customer Experience

Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Let me jump right in: With product analytics, customer retention isn’t just something you measure after the fact; it should be something you can learn to predict (and then improve). How could a product manager possibly dig into the data and pull up something that’s genuinely useful for activation and retention?

Data Visualization

Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Is the "North Star Metric" just another bit of SaaS jargon somebody has coined to rename something everybody already knows about? And should you, as a product manager care about it? What other SaaS companies use the North Star Metric and how can you find yours? What difference does it make if your product is B2B or B2C?

B2C

Userpilot

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In SaaS, the B2B marketing funnel forms the backbone of any successful product and marketing team. First, let’s explain the basic concepts and then discover a 6-step process to build a B2B marketing funnel that feeds product growth. When users are considering your product and comparing it with other alternatives.

B2B

Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

TL;DR: Land and expand is a great tactic, but there are pitfalls, explains Luke Taylor , formerly Head of Product Management at Huddle. The Cloud has Fundamentally Changed B2B Selling. B2B Metrics now are More Like B2C Metrics. Therefore, you need to address these concerns in your product.

Customer Experience

Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 16, 2024

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Everyone gets excited about launching new features, but in my experience, most of a company’s growth comes from the less glamorous stuff: incremental and consistent optimization of the core product.

Onboarding KPIs

Userpilot

AUGUST 6, 2024

We covered actionable steps to build an effective system that converts users, drives product engagement , and leads to long-term growth. TL;DR A SaaS marketing funnel outlines the steps users take from their initial awareness of your product to becoming loyal users. Monitor metrics like NPS , product rating, and referral rate.

Feedback Software

Product Management University

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Product experience is a vital part of product design and development. Your product should be able to make customers measurably better at specific job tasks that are critical to their success, for sure, but does it do so easily and efficiently, and even more importantly, do those customers actually enjoy using it?

Customer Experience

Userpilot

MARCH 15, 2022

Is your SaaS business trying to leverage product growth to achieve success? In the SaaS world, product growth (or product-led growth) has become a popular way to drive growth as it allows users to experience the value of your product before they even subscribe to a plan. What is product growth in SaaS?

Onboarding KPIs

Userpilot

JULY 23, 2023

With a jobs-to-be-done template, you can easily transform your customer interviews into actionable insights and develop an engaging product with high chances of success. It operates under the premise that customers purchase products and services to get a “job” done. Get direct product feedback through in-app surveys.

Framework

Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Table of Contents The problem with defining product-market fit In search of quantitative indicators of product-market fit 6 things about measuring product-market fit 1. With that in mind, product-market fit is a spectrum 4. Every business is unique, and metrics frameworks apply differently 5.

User Testing

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 22, 2019

To understand the voice of the customer , companies need to measure three critical points in the user experience: onboarding effort, support satisfaction and an overall net promotion score that measures relationship health. It’s time for product teams to go from being revenue-led or product-led to being customer-led.

Feedback Software

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. including Scrum as a framework?—?work All startups built double-sided marketplaces, serving B2C as well as B2B customers.

Agile

Userpilot

AUGUST 23, 2024

Popularly known as the Product-Led Geek, Ben Williams has spent over 20 years as an executive, helping startup founders and product leaders succeed. He’s skilled at building and mentoring high-performing teams and has a knack for scaling growth across different areas, like PLG, PLS, user onboarding, and retention.

Webinar

Userpilot

JULY 19, 2021

It is not enough to support your users only when they have issues with your product. Furthermore, we explore how to choose the best platform for your company and the must-have features for the best customer engagement tools. In short, you use CEP software to manage and optimize product experiences along the user journey.

Analytic Tools

Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Understanding the customer journey is crucial to building products that meet your users’ needs. Without a window into how people use your products, your efforts to improve conversions will be shots in the dark. To get that insight, many product managers and marketers rely on funnel analysis to chart the different paths users take.

Analytic Tools

Indicative

MARCH 12, 2021

The big challenge for SaaS companies today isn’t customer acquisition—it’s activation, getting those leads to fully adopt the product and become long-term active users. That means SaaS product and marketing teams need to shift their focus toward product adoption. A Framework for Driving Product Adoption.

Onboarding KPIs

Userpilot

JUNE 5, 2023

The SaaS conversion funnel adapts the traditional marketing funnel to the unique B2B SaaS environment. The SaaS funnel was designed to help SaaS business owners navigate the tricky world of a high-churn, often oversaturated B2B market. The SaaS conversion funnel is an adaptation of the AARRR Pirate Metrics framework by David McClure.

Analytic Tools

Userpilot

JULY 26, 2021

Have you, like me, ever wondered how it’s possible to try so many SaaS products for free? It’s because of something called product-led growth (or product growth for short.). They use their product as the selling point. They promote their products, right? But isn’t that what all companies do? Not exactly.

Analytic Tools

Userpilot

APRIL 12, 2022

The AARRR funnel, also known as the pirate metrics framework, is a set of metrics you can use to track and impact critical user behavior to bring about product-led growth. Businesses all around the world have used this framework to track their growth and to learn what stage of the funnel requires attention.

Analytic Tools

Userpilot

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Realeasing a new feature and expecting your users to just ‘pick it up’ is like going to China and expecting to ‘just pick up Chinese’. You need to help your users adopt the new features, regardless how far they are in their user journey. If nobody knows you’ve launched a new feature, you can’t expect anybody to start using it.

Onboarding KPIs

Userpilot

JUNE 25, 2023

Which product management books do you have on your shelf (or Kindle)? Whether you’re a seasoned product management pro or just starting out on this thrilling journey, we’re pretty sure you’ll discover a book or two that will help you boost your product management game. Are you not sure what to add to it?

Books

Userpilot

JULY 10, 2024

Businesses invest heavily in product marketing through webinars, blog posts, and video content for a reason – it gets them notable results. If you’re looking to start or improve your SaaS product marketing strategy, this is the article to read. Both are vital for SaaS success.

Analytic Tools

Userpilot

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The Pirate Metrics Framework organizes the traditional funnel into five stages in the customer journey: Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, and Revenue ( AARRR ). Loops also come in three types of common designs: viral, content-led, and product-led. Understanding the growth loops framework.

Customer Experience

Userpilot

MAY 7, 2024

TL;DR A software walkthrough is the process of guiding users through the main features and processes of a software product. Interactive walkthroughs guide users step-by-step through actions within a product, while product tours offer a more passive overview of features and capabilities. Canva — Branched onboarding.

Feedback Software

Gainsight

APRIL 30, 2019

As a product manager, metrics affect every move you make. Today’s Product teams are under increasing pressure to deliver outstanding products and exceptional user experiences. Three new market dynamics have contributed to the evolution of our product expectations: Subscription models. READ THE GUIDE.

Onboarding KPIs

The Product Coalition

JUNE 15, 2020

One of the latest buzzwords in the Product world is ‘Product Led-Growth.’ And does focusing on a product-led growth strategy make you a Growth Product Manager? Let’s examine this “new” trend… What Does Product-Led Growth Mean? around the product as the largest source of sustainable, scalable business growth.”

Onboarding KPIs

Userpilot

APRIL 18, 2023

In SaaS, customer success is needed to ensure that your customers achieve their desired outcomes with your product and become loyal advocates for your brand. A customer success strategy is beneficial to increase customer retention, boost customer lifetime value, expand WOM , and enhance your product experience.

Feedback Software

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.

Data Visualization

Userpilot

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

What’s the difference between a Counter Metric vs North Star Metric? While having a North Star Metric helps your team focus on one big direction for your product, a Counter Metric keeps you in check, making sure you don’t over-optimize just for the sake of one metric, missing key aspects of your SaaS business growth.

Onboarding KPIs

Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

Do you follow any product manager blogs? Would you like to discover new ones that will give you valuable insights into product management ? In our article, we introduce 20 of our favorite product manager blogs that every product pro should follow, regardless of their experience. Our favorite product management blogs.

Blog

Userpilot

APRIL 18, 2024

From learning about the product to a desired action, like a purchase. Examples: SEO product-led content or email marketing. A free trial is a chance for potential customers to experience product value. In SaaS, getting users to value quickly matters a lot, so invest in onboarding and self-service support.

Data Visualization

Mixpanel

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This post is written by TWG, a product consultancy specializing in modern application development , data engineering, and product growth. Simply put, data is at the core of good product management. What is a product stack? Knowing those details helps product managers improve the experience for future users.

Analytic Tools