Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

I first met Petra Wille, a fellow product coach, at Mind the Product and was immediately impressed with her work. While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. I’m here with Petra Wille, who is also a product discovery coach.

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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 How do I build alignment?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2023

A successful product can only work if people actually buy it. But too many product leaders focus on the product itself and not on what makes it sell. As product leaders you cannot ignore the full customer journey to make sure it makes sense. I’m sure you know this quote and see it a lot in product management.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 3, 2024

Hi readers, Doing a short round up on various links, books, a quick life update, and other stuff going on. but am proud of what I published… Blog posts from 2023 How to design a referral program. I also discuss the weaknesses of referral programs rather than products that are intrinsically viral. Creator Economy 2.0:

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

Aspiring product managers, nothing you’ll want to build will ever come easy, so let me give you some words of advice. Many who aspire to become a product manager (PM) always come to me with the same pattern of questions: Will I get to drive my ideas from start to finish? Am I the CEO of the product? Am I the CEO of the product?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In the latest episode, Rosemary King , our Director of Training Products welcomes Adam Warburton to Mindset. Adam is currently Head of Digital Products at The Co-Op, one of the world’s largest consumer co-operatives. 05:00 | What do you do when you know you’re not getting the best out of your team?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Product Management | Websites Best practices checklist from a Fortune 10 product manager Remember this version of yahoo? This blog is a humble attempt at calling out some of those mistakes and suggesting a few alternatives. Give the user what you exactly promised without extra scrolls or clicks. So, here we go: 1.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Q: How do I figure out how to price my product? It can drive enormous sustained growth (quickly) and often takes very little product work, yet is rarely prioritized or even discussed within product teams.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

Are you planning to build a community for your product but are intimidated by the amount of work needed? Building a community is no walk in the park, but creating a brand community around your product can be easy and even fulfilling as long as you stay focused on your goals.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

You wouldn’t expect to find a Brand Studio at every tech startup, but then again, we’ve always enjoyed doing things a little bit differently. And lately, they’ve been quite busy with our brand refresh project. As I said, they’ve been quite busy. Kira Bundlie , Creative Copywriting Manager. Kyle Benson , Brand Design Lead.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 16, 2022

You’ll almost certainly have heard of a minimum viable product. But a minimum delightful product might be new to you and exactly what you need to focus on as a product manager. A minimum delightful product (MDP) is a version of your product consisting of just enough to engage and delight your users.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Our industry is in the midst of a big philosophical debate about the fundamental way of thinking about how we build our products, with the focus shifting from the outputs of what we build to the business outcomes generated by those outputs. Back in 2013, our head of engineering Darragh coined this mantra: Shipping is our heartbeat.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 22, 2023

How do you write a UX microcopy that helps users accomplish their objectives and drives conversions? That’s what our guide to microcopy in UX design covers, so if you’re after the answer, you’re in the right place! Before releasing the microcopy to the world, test it, just like other aspects of the product.

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UX Studio

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Have you ever felt that you, as the researcher, told the designers everything in great detail, but the result was very different from what you expected? UX designers and researchers must synchronize their goals to create the perfect digital product. They must establish common objectives aligning with the overarching product vision.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In many cases, content is the first touchpoint of your customer journey – your prospects’ first interaction with your product. The purpose of this article is to introduce what content testing is, the methods of testing content, and a step-by-step guide to preparing and conducting your research. What content should you test?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Most businesses design customer experiences from the inside out, based on what is best for the company, when they should be doing the exact opposite. This means you first need to engage with your customers to listen to what they (and the data points) are saying. “You How to put the “customer” in “customer experience”.

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Nulab

AUGUST 25, 2021

400 years ago) is complete rubbish and that we should, in fact, embrace independence. Whether you’re an Olympic runner, an app developer, or a wealthy big-city bachelor, getting to know what’s going on in the world around you is a smart thing to do. It’s not just about knowing what you’re up against? Working out your USP.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

Your proactive customer support demonstrates how much you care about your customer and persuades more customers to stick with your product or service. What is time to resolution? Companies do TTR assessments weekly or monthly, but it mostly depends on the nature of the business and the volume of customer support interactions.

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The Product Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2024

Hello, all you product-loving folks! 💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, AI, and more. ☕ Thanks for reading Product Café Newsletter ☕️! We've got a list of people who do just that.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 19, 2022

What do your customers care about? This seems like a simple enough question, but many product teams struggle to answer it honestly. Often the first instinct is to frame an answer in terms of what your business cares about. Today’s Product in Practice is a great reminder of this. Tweet This.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2021

The secret to acing a product management interview isn’t just knowing what questions to expect. It’s getting inside your interviewer’s mind, and understanding why they’re asking you these questions, and what they want to know. How do you stay user-focused? How do you stay user-focused? How do you stay user-focused?

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 22, 2024

Copycats can only be stopped if other people stop selling them Image Credit: [cipher] The goal of every product manager is to create a popular product that our customers want to purchase. If our product becomes too popular, there will be other companies that start to make copies of our products.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 21, 2022

Videogame product managers are starting extend their product development definition and bring more of their complex, graphics-intense hits for consoles and high-end computers to mobile devices. How can game product managers be successful doing this? Games for these systems have grown into a big business.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2022

Rob Fitzpatrick, the author, gives us all the tools we need to talk to customers, navigate through the noise, and learn what people really want. This way you’ll gather enough data, iterate on your business venture and create a meaningful product people will actually want to buy. Would you buy a product which did X?”

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

trick works – most of the time Image Credit: Steve One of a product manager’s hardest tasks is to come up with a price for their product. Our goal here is to use our product development definition to pick a price that will maximize revenue for our company while at the same time not scaring away our customers.

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Userpilot

JULY 31, 2023

What does a product marketing manager (PMM) do? Chances are you already know their broad responsibility is to develop and implement a marketing strategy roadmap for a specific product. But what exactly does this entail? Glassdoor sets out that the average salary for a product marketing manager is just over $127k.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Anyone familiar with Product Management will recognize the immortal phrase ‘influence without authority.’ As a Product Manager, you’re a team player who guides product development along its chartered course, but you have to do that without being the literal captain of the ship. What Does ‘Influence’ Mean?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 25, 2020

This should lead to fewer conversations and more headspace for your team. You should put all of these questions and their answers together in an article , a blog post or on your website. You can: Find out more about what your customers need, and point them in the right direction. Custom Bots.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

Metts & Andy Welfle Userpilot can help you deliver better product experiences at every stage of the user journey. Beginner-friendly books to learn the UX design process and boost creative confidence Are you starting your UX design journey or simply curious about what the field is about? We covered: A general overview of the books.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 17, 2019

We are all learning how to manage product in the internet age. He now heads up Silicon Valley Product Group, where he works with product managers and senior leaders to help them generate value through their products. We are then trying to create products which we can plan and build a business on.

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AB Tasty

MARCH 26, 2024

Rand Fishkin discusses the importance of “non-attributable” marketing and why companies should take more risks and allow themselves the freedom to fail. Previously, Rand was the co-founder and CEO of Moz, where he started SEOmoz as a blog that turned into a consulting company, then a software business.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Intercom, the product, continued to develop at a fast pace with hundreds of new features big and small – from an entirely reimagined Messenger to a thriving Intercom App Store to next generation chatbots, Custom Bots and Answer Bot. What can we do different and better in the year ahead? The best of the blog.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

How do you develop an understanding of what will set a product up for success throughout your organization? This blog looks at what actions product managers can take to ensure their teams are investing their time wisely. “If What are their needs, desires and problems? 1: It Takes a Village.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 3, 2022

It turns out that their product managers forgot what was in their product development definition and made a product mistake that this has ended up having huge ramifications online where Gucci had been doing very well. What went wrong? Gucci’s Big Product Mistake. Sales plummeted.

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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. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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BrainMates

JULY 6, 2020

A competitor analysis is one of the fundamental things you should do before you launch a new Product or business. As Product Managers, having solid knowledge of our rivals and their activity in the marketplace helps us make better decisions during the strategic product planning phase. Updated July 2020.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Driving activation is a critically important skill for SaaS owners and product managers: in this article, we’re going to explore the most effective activation strategies for driving growth and engagement. So, what goes into crafting a customer activation strategy? What kind of measures and KPIs should you be monitoring ?

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