The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

I served teachers, students, and administrators, each group with specific product needs and goals. In my new PM role at a large B2C, I felt lost. In hindsight, my recruiting strategy was too broad. John Kresse is a mobile product manager at Barnes & Noble. More About The Product Mentor. About John Kresse.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Creating buzz with consumers or even having a product go viral is quite easy in a B2C (business-to-consumer) environment. However, getting the attention of your target customers with B2B marketing strategies is a lot harder. B2B marketing targets businesses and organizations rather than individual consumers.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Up until this point, to understand our customers, we had primarily relied on the Jobs-to-be-Done framework , product sense, research insight, sales input, and a belief that our customers were companies just like us. Authoritative, actionable strategies on how to grow your business. A substitute for strategy or planning.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In our world, this would have been considered a great product strategy. As you are reading this, replace Ford’s car with your own product. Sales need to be able to connect the specific need of that target audience to the actual product, which in turn needs to deliver on the value originally promised by marketing.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The “shiny penny” approach (focus all your attention on the hottest tools in the market) or “head in the sand” approach (fall victim to analysis paralysis and avoid choosing any tools) are no longer viable. What is a marketing technology stack? Strategy first, technology second. But here’s the thing: a tool is not a strategy.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2021

And should you, as a product manager care about it? What difference does it make if your product is B2B or B2C? North Star Metrics align teams to work towards the same goal of creating and satisfying loyal customers and to make the success of a growth strategy transparent. Don’t worry about perfection at the start.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

SaaS companies have started to realize that their products should be the main driver of growth. This product-led growth flips the old marketing and sales rulebooks on their heads. Product marketing is a large part of this shift. Product-Led Growth. What a product marketing strategy involves.

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Userpilot

MARCH 28, 2022

Content marketing vs product marketing? The goal of any marketing strategy is to attract and convert members of your target market into paying customers. But what is the difference between content and product marketing ? The advantages of both marketing strategies. Definitely not!

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 18, 2020

A good product strategy helps you to acquire happy customers and retain them over time. Here is how product strategy helps you overcome them. Photo by Braden Collum on Unsplash Working on product strategy is an iterative process. At this point, the importance of the process is very clear.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 15, 2020

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? Product-led growth strategy is a methodology that positions the product as the primary driver of growth for the company. The secret? It’s cheaper.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

SaaS companies have started to realize that their products should be the main driver of growth. This product-led growth flips the old marketing and sales rulebooks on their heads. Product marketing is a large part of this shift. Product-Led Growth. What a product marketing strategy involves.

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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. Once you find product-market fit, it’s not static 6.

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B2B Product Management

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Getting confused between what to do as a B2B Product vs B2C Product manager role? Let us start with understanding the difference in those two types of products. It is important to understand what B2B and B2C products are. And B2C products are products or services that are sold directly to consumers.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 13, 2019

As you reach your next wave of growth, you need to continue to invest in those customers and in that product, and recognize that, in order to keep growing, you need that product to appeal to more people. The first strategy of that next wave of growth is to expand your addressable market. How to expand your market.

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Good Product Manager

MARCH 29, 2016

Upcoming Product Management and Product Marketing Events. SiriusDecisions Summit (May 24-27 in Nashville): I mentioned the presentation on The Art and Science of Identifying and Prioritizing Customer Needs above, but that’s just one of the reasons that product management professionals should attend Summit.

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Product Management University

MARCH 30, 2023

Marketers generally answer that question by dividing potential customers into groups based on shared characteristics. The idea is to make marketing efforts more effective by appealing directly to your market’s specific needs. Segmenting a B2B market is much simpler because there are fewer variables.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 2, 2019

However, Bangaly cautions against monetizing your product too soon, especially in the B2C space: “For B2C, definitely start off being free, getting product market fit, figuring out what is the thing that really is the feature, the set of features, the experience that retains people well.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The journey to product-market fit might seem random, but it actually has a well defined high-level structure. Here is part two of the guide that will help you find your way to product-market fit. This is an important principle in the product-market fit journey. How many is a few?

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity. First, I observe that product titles and roles vary wildly across companies: there’s no consistency even within a segment. What’s your preferred organization model for product folks?”

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

Generally speaking, junior Product Managers whose day-to-day centers around the “heads down” Product Owner work for their scrum team will likely be strong in the bottom half of the skills, and if they’re working on a B2C product that likely leans to the bottom-left.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 9, 2024

And if they don’t find product-market fit, nothing else really matters. For inspiration, here are the original ideal customer profiles (ICPs) for top B2B products and, below that, the original target audience for top B2C products (what I call the “super-specific who”).

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 12, 2023

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2021

In B2C companies, this often translates into initiatives with a very rough guesstimation of how much ARR will each initiative bring. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an This is especially true if you are trying to break down the OKRs along with the organizational structure as mentioned above.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Have you ever wondered why a Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy is required when you launch a product or service? In retrospect I always focused more on execution, and less on planning and strategy. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? Typically there are four steps to creating a detailed GTM Strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Nico joined me on Inside Intercom this week, where we discussed everything from the three stages of company growth to how growing companies can address new markets. We’re present on three core markets in Europe: France, UK, and Germany as well as other countries such as the Nordics and Spain, with 1,500 customers that we serve.

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Dear Strategy

JANUARY 14, 2019

Dear Strategy: “How do I evaluate a Product Manager to Product Marketing Manager career transition?”. . In some circles, the roles of product manager and product marketing manager are one and the same; effectively meaning that, for companies that take this approach, one of these titles simply would not exist.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Research from Epsilon shows that 80% of customers are more likely to do business with a company that offers personalized marketing campaigns. This statistic highlights why market segmentation is important: it allows tailored product marketing customized to the needs of distinct market segments.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Photo by Pixabay I recently led a product-market fit workshop at a known company in the Israeli tech industry. It is a well-established company, a leader in its domain, but it still needs to deliver new products to the market so product-market fit is a very relevant topic.

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Userpilot

JUNE 19, 2024

Interested in product marketing manager roles? In this guide, we’ll explore the ins and outs of product marketing manager roles through detailed job descriptions and handy templates. TL;DR A product marketing manager is a professional responsible for promoting and selling their company’s products.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

million round of venture funding from First Round Capital and others, scaled the team, got somewhat of product/market fit, but ended up selling early to TaskRabbit. Upon joining that team, I led online marketing and user acquisition growth for about a year. Adam: Did Thumbtack also reach product/market fit faster?

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 5, 2024

The number of hours required to prepare for a successful campaign varies based on the stage of your product, your experience with PH, and who your users are (i.e. B2B versus B2C). Product Hunt is a powerful signal on what the market wants, and it’s worth finding that out as soon as possible.” Pacific Time.

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Mixpanel

APRIL 18, 2024

For one, in an ideal scenario, any new feature release requires a healthy amount of testing and, unlike B2C companies which build for general consumers and might have millions of users, most B2Bs are lucky to have a few thousand people regularly using their products. They’re the end consumers of this training, after all.

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Good Product Manager

MARCH 29, 2016

Upcoming Product Management and Product Marketing Events. SiriusDecisions Summit (May 24-27 in Nashville): I mentioned the presentation on The Art and Science of Identifying and Prioritizing Customer Needs above, but that’s just one of the reasons that product management professionals should attend Summit.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before we get into the details behind our strategy and approach, here’s a quick overview: An expanded data limit on our Free Plan, from 1,000 MTUs to 100,000 MTUs (or up to 100M events per month), representing an increase of 100x. Below, I’ll walk through the key ingredients of our new plans and pricing strategy, and how we got there.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 15, 2023

A growth marketer is a professional who leverages experimentation and optimization techniques to increase customer lifetime value, drive retention, and fuel business expansion (referral programs, upsells, etc.). In contrast, traditional marketing managers primarily concentrate on classic marketing campaigns for customer acquisition.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

How do you effectively implement B2B marketing automation into your existing product marketing activities? In this article, we’ll cover: What B2B marketing automation is and how it benefits marketing and sales teams. 12 effective ways to grow your business using marketing automation strategies.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 9, 2023

We also look at the process of building a product persona, the data you need to collect, and some user persona examples that you can use for your SaaS. Product personas are fictional characters that represent real users. Product personas help product managers keep alignment between the product and its vision.

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