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The good, the bad, and the ugly: ChartMogul’s Nick Franklin on navigating hypergrowth

Intercom, Inc.

The situations that portend failure are varied and unfortunately common – no product-market fit, no cash, bad product, burnout, to name just a few of the most obvious. Poor marketing. A better strategy is to prioritize building your audience alongside developing the product. In this world, growth trumps all other priorities.

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Ask the Community: What’s a Mistake You Made Early in Your Continuous Discovery Journey?

Product Talk

Because discovery involves changing the way you work on an individual, team, and even company level, it’s all too easy to make mistakes and missteps. If you’ve already begun to develop continuous discovery habits, maybe one of these stories will remind you of something you’ve experienced somewhere in your journey.

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Working Remotely as a Product Manager: It’s about trust.

Product Management Unpacked

Stereotypes about what kind of work can or cannot be done remotely lead to unrealistic expectations and underperforming programs. The job of a product manager has many elements, but at its core is a responsibility to build relationships, especially with development, engineering, sales and sales leadership, as well as executive management.

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Top 7 Reasons For Customer Churn in SaaS and Tips to Address Them

Userpilot

And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? Reasons why customers churn: #1: Customers churn when there is a bad product-customer fit and your product’s features don’t align with their needs. 3: Poor customer service or experience with the sales teams can make customers churn.

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Mismatched Expectations: Product Information and Sales Teams

Mironov Consulting

 Sales teams inundate us with urgent-but-repetitive ‘does product X do thing Y?’ 1] “Product Needs to Help Sales Close Major Deals” Enterprise sales teams are paid, rewarded, promoted, and measured on closing individual (big) deals.  So   “ BNP Paribas is the largest bank in France.  We

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Product Management Journey?—?Developer to Consultant to Product Manager

The Product Coalition

Developer to Consultant to Product Manager If you asked me 5 years ago, I didn’t even know what Product Management was. I started off my journey as a UI developer at PayPal Engineering Singapore. These roles gave me opportunities helped me gain exposure on how to develop web applications for users. Product Management Journey?—?Developer

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How I treat creative copy like a product—using data

Mixpanel

If you know a thing or two about product development, you’ve heard of the “a-ha” moment. As I’ve seen it applied, most keyword research is used to create a laundry list of blog posts to create words to fit into a sales page, so Google Search prioritizes your work. For example, I recently worked on a blog conversion project.