bpma ProductHub

JULY 13, 2016

Each has advised me in different ways and on different aspects of what I can bring to an organization both personally and professionally. I tend to seek out people who can advise me best in my current circumstances. I enjoy advising people so they can be more successful in achieving their career outcomes. on a regular basis.

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Andrew Chen

MARCH 27, 2019

Dear readers, Many of you may have read the recent New York Times article “ Uber and Airbnb Alumni Fuel Tech’s Next Wave ” which is about how alumni of successful startups often split off and start new companies, and how ecosystems of investors/advisors form around these new companies to support them.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

An unconventional view of what it takes to be a Product Leader Photo by Porapak Apichodilok from Pexels *Note: this is a revised and updated version of a guest blog I did for Department of Product, titled: ‘Unconventional advice for transitioning to Head of Product’ ?—?check It’s seldom their ability to do the job technically?—?to

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Userpilot

MARCH 3, 2022

This includes market research (potential employers), understanding product strengths (your value to the customer), iterative development (subsequent drafts), or refining the UI (formatting). Careers in programming are a good springboard as are those in sales, customer service, or marketing. “First of it would be your skillsets.

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BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

BrainStation offers Online Live Certificate Courses in data, design, development, marketing, and product management. Speak to a Learning Advisor. Self-styled ‘visionary’ Product Managers are dangerous – which is why I advise against hiring PM candidates who fire off (Steve Jobs) quotes during job interviews.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 1, 2021

But with such a saturated market, which tool should you choose? Technically speaking, this is known as "primary onboarding." " That translates into more product experiments , and a more empowered product marketing team overall. This article is here to help you answer that question. " Onboarding milestones.

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Andrew Chen

MARCH 27, 2019

Dear readers, Many of you may have read the recent New York Times article “ Uber and Airbnb Alumni Fuel Tech’s Next Wave ” which is about how alumni of successful startups often split off and start new companies, and how ecosystems of investors/advisors form around these new companies to support them.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 7, 2021

If you're new to product marketing , you'll probably need to acquire a certain degree of familiarity with Pendo product tours. In fact, we would encourage you to have a good look at all the user onboarding software products on the market to see how they compare to each other. Examples given include: Success messages.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

I was sharing what we were doing on my blog at the time. I learned a ton from growing this business: about sales, about marketing, about how to run a company, and it’s been a lot of fun. For us, it was important to completely saturate the market. You’re advising more than 50 companies right now.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

While it gives them endless opportunities for account expansion , it is virtually impossible to address the needs of all user segments in those markets. The product allows its users to create quality visuals like banners or background graphics without technical skills, and this is possible thanks to templates.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 17, 2023

If NPS scores are high, it means customers are realizing your value since they are willing to advise others to use your product. This way, your sales and marketing teams can set up the right expectations that will lead to value realization as customers start using your product. What are the stages of the value realization process?

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

Clearly, companies are seeing the value in hiring product gurus who can oversee and guide a product’s life development from ideation to market, all while efficiently managing teams of drastically diverse backgrounds and developing a sound distribution plan. Speak to a Learning Advisor. Do Some Soul-Searching.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

We generally advise against linear, top-down product tours. The best product tour software on the market is Userpilot. Product marketers often find that a good product tour ensures that more new users activate. Instead, you should opt for an interactive walkthrough type of product tour. What are product tours?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

In this Path to PM blog post, Kevin shares his journey breaking into a product role as a new grad hire at IBM. I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

He is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Entrepreneur and has over 20 years experience helping companies bring high-growth products to market. Leisa tweets at @leisa and occasionally blogs at disambiguity.com. Brant Cooper helps organizations big and small innovate. Stephanie Hannon, CPO at Strava.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

TalkTalk was fined £400,000 in 2016 for failing to have appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to secure its customers’ personal data, and for keeping their personal data for longer than necessary. Why am I writing about this for the Mind the Product blog? Under the GDPR this fine could have risen to £35 million.

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

Clearly, companies are seeing the value in hiring product gurus who can oversee and guide a product’s life development from ideation to market, all while efficiently managing teams of drastically diverse backgrounds and developing a sound distribution plan. PMs do best when the team they’re joining really wants them there.”.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

John also hosts another podcast called Growth Marketing Today where he’s interviewed product and marketing leaders like Sean Ellis, April Dunford, and Hiten Shah. mechanical engineering, marketing, economics.) Challenges of transitioning from a non-technical background. Ramli John, Author of Product-Led Onboarding.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

Coaching and mentorship play a significant part in the success of startups - it allows them to transform and excel in their market and industry. Product management is a job that encompasses elements of business strategy, engineering, marketing and market research. A Good CEO Knows When to Ask for Help.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. Hubert: Productboard is a project management system, it’s a system that helps product managers make better product decisions and figure out how to bring products to market faster.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

The best walkthrough software on the market is Userpilot. That’s why we often advise SaaS companies to segment users prior to their walkthrough, to make sure that customers only see features during their walkthrough that make sense for their individual use case. Other good options include Appcues and Userguiding. Get a demo today!

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Dear Strategy

JANUARY 4, 2019

Admittedly, the term “on-premises” might more commonly be used in a business-to-business context, but it technically refers to any type of software that is installed and run from an onsite device rather than in the cloud. Way back in the 1960s when the first analog synthesizers came to market, they were truly breakthrough products.

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Mixpanel

MAY 26, 2020

Rohit Gossain: I started off my career in 2010 as a technical analyst working with a product manager. The metrics were more marketing-based–revenue, conversions, leads–and not behavior-based. If you’re a PM, I’d advise that you have discussions with various teams (marketing, data, operations, finance, etc.)

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Mixpanel

MAY 26, 2020

Rohit Gossain: I started off my career in 2010 as a technical analyst working with a product manager. The metrics were more marketing-based–revenue, conversions, leads–and not behavior-based. If you’re a PM, I’d advise that you have discussions with various teams (marketing, data, operations, finance, etc.)

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 21, 2019

While there are lots of content out there advising on this subject, I would just like to call out one thing which I believe has helped me time and again: having empathy towards my interviewer. While some encourage you to fake it till you make it, I would advise against it during the interview process. Q: Favorite PM resource or blog?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

Numerous conferences later, talking with peers and reading many blogs like this only left with more questions than answers. Later whilst being an adviser at Stanford university Neil H. As the name the “Brand Men” suggest the origins of Product Management was truely in marketing. Confused and loss of a sense of identity, many?—?including

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Technical configurations on application and test environment must be done. This results in faster test insights and quicker time to market advantages. Crowdtesting is not advisable in these situations. Financially stable firms: It is advisable to partner with financially stable companies. Some of them may be confidential.

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Andrew Chen

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Together, Shawn Clowes (Atlassian), Elena Verna (SurveyMonkey), Nick Soman (Gusto), Andrew Chen and Brian Balfour (Reforge, previously at Hubspot) have interviewed or screened over 1,000 individual candidates for growth roles – both for their current and previous companies, plus startups where they’ve invested/advised.

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UX Studio

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

They focused too much on their technical side or even visual design, but nothing about the communication. ” Maybe I’m the leader because I opened the group or because I decided to give more to the community – to open a website that will be dedicated to the community, a blog for a community. Pixel location doesn’t matter.

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Userpilot

MAY 26, 2021

This is often the case if a given product requires tons of integrations before a customer can get value out of it, or if installation is highly technical and requires advanced coding knowledge. Questions about your customer’s broader experience with your market, such as “What solutions did you try?

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

Which means at some point, every product must reassess its position in the market – and the strategic decisions that underpin it – to decide whether to evolve and adapt to new emerging market trends, or to ignore them. It is extremely difficult (and probably not advisable) to attempt to stay on top of all trends.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Darragh: You wrote a blog post recently about the impact of having sponsors during your time at Microsoft. I would strongly advise you to make sure that people’s interests and passion are lined up with what you are trying to get them to do as a manager. the best content on product management, marketing and customer support.

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All About Product Management

MAY 13, 2008

All this resulted in Product Managers being more reactive to situation as opposed to being proactive in delivering new products to market and improving on developing the feature set of their current product portfolio. No longer did the Testers have a fully documented technical and functional spec to work with.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 7, 2021

We have more collateral to share than ever before, our salespeople are supported not only by marketing teams to drive engagement and lead generation, but also sales enablement teams to help ensure that they always have the right examples, user cases, demos, decks and proposal templates. I could go on, but you get the picture.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

For instance, in large companies like Google and Facebook, product managers collaborate with dedicated researchers, analysts, and marketers who assist them in different stages of the product lifecycle. Conduct market and competitive research. Work with marketing and sales. Monitor market trends and feedback.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

Finally, the term Development Team seems to limit the role to technical people, for example, software engineers. However, in my experience, given proper support by the Scrum Master, even lawyers and marketers can get comfortable with the designation “developer” when utilizing Scrum for their purposes. Team leads? Well, then: ??

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

This suggests that the market as a whole is increasingly aware of the value of onboarding. The more your new customers activate, the better the job your product marketing team is doing on onboarding. This might be true if your product is of life-or-death importance to users, or if your installation is long and technical.

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