The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 15, 2021

The product managers at Facebook have real problem on their hands. This means that they have to sit around and review their product development definition as they try to identify new products that can appeal to their over 2 billion users. Let’s face it: the Facebook product managers may be on to something here.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

Product managers are taking a different approach to vaping Image Credit: Lindsay Fox. It’s currently a tough time to be a product manager for vaping products in the U.S. Vaping products exploded on the scene a while back and have become very popular. Why Vape Vitamins?

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 17, 2023

Patient medical records may be a new product area Image Credit: Kevin Spencer Nobody ever wants to go to the hospital. Product managers believe that that they may have an opportunity to fix this problem. The Power Of Medical Records Product managers think that they may have discovered a new source of valuable products.

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The Accidental Product Manager

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Is it possible that new sources of data will help product managers in hard times? Your best laid plans for how you were going to boost the success of your product at the beginning of the year got turned on their heads. Product managers have to be ready to act upon what the data is telling them.

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The Accidental Product Manager

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Product managers can do bad things too Image Credit: Photo by Alex Block on Unsplash. I’d like to tell you that the calling to become a product manager is only received by those of us with the highest morals. What this means is that in the world of product managers, there are the good ones and the not so good ones.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 29, 2022

Some vaping products have been banned, but are there ways around this? Ah, but to be the product manager for a vaping product. government became concerned when studies showed that vaping was attracting children and more kids were starting to vape – just like they had started to smoke cigarettes at too young of an age.

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The Accidental Product Manager

APRIL 17, 2023

Can the Home Depot product managers keep the customers that they got? However, over at the Home Depot their product managers were able to make the most of the opportunity presented by having everyone stay at home with nothing else to do. They gained a lot of customers during the year that nobody went into work.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 19, 2021

The life of a freezer product manager is generally fairly boring. Your product development definition tells you to create more and more efficient products in order to replace the older units that your customers are using. How are freezer product managers going to deal with their new found popularity?

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 22, 2022

Grocery store product managers are deciding what goes where Image Credit: Erin Sparling. Traditionally this has been controlled by the big food manufacturing firms who told the grocery stores where their products were to be displayed. Product Managers Take Back The Grocery Shelves. However, now things are changing.

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The Accidental Product Manager

APRIL 18, 2022

In order to make sure that people want to buy their products, product managers have to stay on top of changes in the technology that people use to make payments. Over in China product managers are once again moving forward in the area of payments and they are making changes to their product development definition.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MAY 4, 2020

The best-selling electric cars have a unique product development definition and are tiny and come with almost nothing. What are these Chinese product managers up to? Note that this would look good on anyone’s product manager resume. Well, the Chinese government has helped them out.

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The Accidental Product Manager

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Paytm is one such firm and their product managers have done an excellent job of conquering the Indian payment market. When this offering took off, Paytm changed their product development definition and expanded to provide payment services for buying movie tickets and paying an electricity bill. I live in the U.S.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 15, 2018

Amazon rolled out a product that went away very quickly, who screwed up? All of this success has put some pressure on the Amazon product managers. As product managers we all know what this means – new products. What Was Wrong With This Product. Image Credit: Canonicalized. Paying For School.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 31, 2020

The Nexdoor product managers don’t need to explain to people anymore why their neighbors are important. The Nextdoor product managers have made changes to their product development definition in order to respond to the pandemic. Say Hello To Your Neighbor. Second is definitely word-of-mouth.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Product managers know that people are always concerned about their health. From a product manager point-of-view what is good about all of this worry is that people are willing to buy products that will tell them how their bodies are doing. So just exactly what kind of health care products are we talking about here?

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 20, 2020

Restaurant product managers are facing one of the toughest times that they have ever had to deal with. What can product managers learn from the changes that are sweeping through the restaurant industry? Although we are in tough times, this would look good on anyone’s product manager resume.

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

Product Managers Who Use Robots Are Doing Well Image Credit: Timothy Neesam. However, as much of setback as these turns of events have been, there are some product managers who are doing well even now. How To Be A Successful Pandemic Product Manager. You never make contact.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 28, 2019

It turns our that there is a new way to get around and it’s changing the rental car product development definition and causing headaches for established rental car company product managers. As you can well imagine this is not going over well with the product managers at Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Hertz.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Product managers face a challenge trying to get customers to not use their product Image Credit: flickr.com/volver-avanzar !!! Every product needs a product manager. This means that things that are good for us (think vegetables, running shoes, and protein bars) all need product managers.

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The Accidental Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

If product managers can make this service a success, then they will have something to add to their product manager resume. In their product development definition, who is the product manager’s target market for this bike service? If you lived in a modern city, how would you chose to get around town?

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The Accidental Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

You can hardly go into a gas station without being confronted with an entire wall of different brands of cigarettes all of which have just slightly different product development definitions. cigarette market: 0.34% — not something to brag about on your product manager resume. Is there an opportunity to enter the U.S.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JUNE 25, 2018

Coke product managers are fighting for the rights to “zero” Image Credit: Daniel Go. As a product manager, you know just how important the name of your product is. A good example of this is Dr. Pepper’s “Diet Rite Pure Zero” product. only to have this request rejected.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

If you were the product manager for a grocery store, you wouldn’t think that you’d have to worry about getting young people to come into your store and buy things, would you? I mean, we all need the food products that grocery stores sell. What Grocery Store Product Managers Can Do To Attract Millenials.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JUNE 29, 2018

It turns our that there is a new way to get around and it’s changing the rental car product development definition and causing headaches for established rental car company product managers. As you can well imagine this is not going over well with the product managers at Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Hertz.

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The Accidental Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Theranos is in bad shape, but they have introduced a new product Image Credit: Wikipedia. They claimed that they had invented a product that with just a minute amount of blood from an individual could run a large number of health tests. To be a product manager at Theranos in the early days must have been a great job indeed.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 5, 2019

Amazon product managers are going after Walmart shoppers Image Credit: ?? ?. I suspect that if I asked you to take a moment and feel sorry for the product managers who work for Amazon, you probably would not. However, it turns out that being one of these types of product managers is quite difficult.

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The Accidental Product Manager

APRIL 22, 2019

Product managers need to find a way to keep internal combustion engines relevant Image Credit: Insomnia Cured Here. Let’s face it: if you are a product manager for the traditional car engine, called an internal combustion engine , things are looking rather tough for you right now. Countries such as France, the U.K.,

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 23, 2020

I had to say goodbye to my product manager job because I got fired Image Credit: Photo by Gift Habeshaw on Unsplash. Exactly How Does A Product Manager Get Fired? What this meant for the company is that they now had a product and, hat’s off to them, they realized that they needed a product manager.

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