Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. Team execution and development.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 4, 2021

Everyone knows educating the market is hard to nearly impossible, but people always bring up examples like Facebook or the iPhone whenever I discuss it in my lectures. So what can and cannot work when you want to educate the market? Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation.

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Pragmatic Marketing

MAY 23, 2017

The old adage that good marketing can’t sell a bad product is true. I’ve seen brands throw millions of marketing dollars at products that ultimately flopped. As product professionals, we internalize this lesson and combat its occurrence by taking an outside-in approach when it comes to product development.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 3, 2019

But for every success story, there’s a graveyard of failed products laid low by bad product strategies. A bad strategy is hard to overcome. What Does a Bad Product Strategy Look Like? What Does a Bad Product Strategy Look Like? If there was a simple test for bad product strategy most companies would happily use it.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

How to Find Product-Market Fit “Main reason why most of the products fail is due to lack of product-market fit.” ~Dan Dan Olsen Product-Market Fit is inarguably one of the main factors deciding on product success or failure. But what product-market fit is, exactly? The market can consist of two crucial components?—?target

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the competitive world of SaaS products, product positioning is definitely something your product marketing team can’t afford to ignore. Product positioning allows you to identify your market niche. As with all marketing efforts , positioning should be driven by the customer and their needs.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. This is the main focus of the article.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Customer journey optimization refers to the strategic process of analyzing and enhancing a customer's entire experience with a brand. The goal is to meet and exceed customer expectations at every stage, from initial brand awareness to advocacy and loyalty. When implemented effectively, it transforms businesses.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Product managers conduct primary and secondary market and customer research to find the target market and identify opportunities that existing products don’t satisfy. They tell the product management team what they need to achieve. They tell the product management team what they need to achieve.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 10, 2023

These slogans are examples of hyperbole designed to boost the brand power of product businesses. Using a hyperbole is a powerful marketing tactic, so it shouldn’t surprise us that product professionals also use it to drive certain outcomes — but there is a downside. Outcomes are a team effort so harder to take credit for.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Minimum viable features are the set of product characteristics that you need to develop to satisfy a user's need. The development of the MVP and MVE should happen at the same time. Developing one is not possible without the other. These include marketing messages , the sales process, and customer support. Why viable?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Customer journey optimization refers to the strategic process of analyzing and enhancing a customer’s entire experience with a brand. The goal is to meet and exceed customer expectations at every stage, from initial brand awareness to advocacy and loyalty. When implemented effectively, it transforms businesses.

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

TL;DR Product idea validation is a process during which product teams test and tweak the product concept to ensure it satisfies a real market need. Apart from testing the demand for the product, idea validation helps teams assess if they have the necessary expertise and resources to build the product.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Specifically, we will learn about a 7-part framework for marketing communications. 17:48] How do we apply these story elements to marketing? This communication framework works for marketing and internal communication, like motivating people around a new project. If you just list your features, you won’t win in the market.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Throughout the post, I provide practical tips and steps for developing these strategic elements, setting the foundation for further strategic planning. Are you appealing to premium buyers, low end of the market or somewhere in between? Identify their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT).

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

As a product-first company, new product launches are a core part of Intercom’s DNA – which means there’s always an abundance of juicy launches for us product marketers to work on. Given our cadence of launches and updates, we’ve developed a pretty well-oiled launch machine over the past few years.

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Userpilot

MARCH 18, 2022

In this blog post, we will discuss how you can build your product messaging, five great product messaging examples, so you can better communicate your brand value and attract the right audience. Having a product messaging framework is important because it sets the precedence for how the market and your potential customers will see your brand.

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Modus Create

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In this article, we will share how to differentiate between them and how they can contribute to a project’s quality. . The QA professional’s job involves systematic testing focused on the development process. This results in several mispriced orders for the sales team. What is Quality Assurance? Conclusion.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Product launch checklists help align the efforts of all team members, enhance quality assurance, help mitigate risks, enable the evaluation of the launch, and help you deliver a better customer experience. Develop a product that meets customer needs and expectations. If you can find buyers at this stage, you’re onto something.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 30, 2023

Becoming aware of the product's existence through branding and marketing campaigns. Here are real-life product adoption examples from successful companies for each stage: Using social media ads to expand brand awareness, like Slack. of the market) are excited about trying products and testing new technology.

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Userpilot

JULY 14, 2021

There are plenty of all these blogs “15 alternatives to {Brand Name} that are equally good” that are…plain wrong. Because still – there are some differentiators that may affect your choice. As your team of 4 is trying to make it (and not break it!), And these posts are literally not helping anyone. There are two.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

First, the bad news …. The 12-year tech bull market ended with a crash. The priorities that customer success teams live and breathe every day are now the top CEO and investor priorities. In a world of stagnant or declining sales, the work of post-sales and customer success teams has never been more important.

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Gainsight

JUNE 11, 2021

Shape your CS practices by expressing your defined core values and living your authentic truth (your “brand”). Grow Your Personal Brand in 30 Minutes a Day or Less led by Brandon Cestrone, Founder at CS Insider. Major Takeaways: Your personal brand matters. It begins with identifying and developing outcomes.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 1, 2021

Today, a strong brand and social proof are no longer enough to build trust with the modern buyer. Each group within a product-led company will influence the product: sales, customer success, and marketing. As Bush says, “a strong brand and social proof are no longer enough to build trust with the modern buyer.”

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. It was clear the team needed a talent growth plan.

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ProductPlan

MAY 14, 2019

The common sense rationale is that if you’re the first offering in the market to boast Capability X, everyone who cares about Capability X will buy your solution. The graveyard is littered with former household names like Atari and Diners Club that pioneered their market before petering out. First-mover advantage is a real thing.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

A bad UI design will kill any chance you have of guiding users to achieve value with your product. Since an excellent UI design leads to improved customer satisfaction , more and more customers will become brand advocates , sharing their positive experiences with their peers. That sparks growth through word-of-mouth marketing.

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2022

Adopting a needs-based segmentation approach leads to a clearer understanding of the market and better-tailored messages for customer segments. The quality and the brand-focused segment is comprised of businesses that want the best product and are prepared to pay for it. The 3 best tools are Userpilot , Baremetrics, and Segment.

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BrainMates

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The gap between rich and poor is widening, and this is causing an increasing disenchantment with the model which has been so successful. More and more companies and brands are defining their purpose and using it as a guide to how they do business. Our world is in the midst of some seismic changes.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 4, 2019

One of the biggest determining factors of a company’s success is the clarity of its message, and how that clarity comes across in every interaction across the product and brand. And whatever you stand for must resonate with your identified target market. Does the brand personality you portray make sense based on your value proposition?

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

No one knows this better than Sprout Social’s Director of Marketing Strategy, Tara Robertson. Tara joined the company in 2017 and has been instrumental in helping the company scale and retain more customers through a unique customer-centric approach to marketing. . A different approach is the Jobs-to-be-Done framework.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Of the 1000 companies we signed up for to study their onboarding, 73% of B2C companies offered a free or freemium product, and 86% of B2B brands offered a free trial instead of freemium. The freemium business model is great for SaaS because it can help boost growth, build your brand, collect user data and test your product.

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Gainsight

JUNE 29, 2021

The need for a team to manage customer relationships and needs became clear as companies started losing customers. SaaS companies have pioneered Customer Success as a function, building dedicated teams to manage relationships and make sure customers are happy and seeing value from a product or service they purchased.

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UX Studio

JULY 20, 2017

There are several moments during a product design process when a team needs to make decisions because they have hundreds of ideas but no time to test them all. They can be really awkward because debates based on personal preferences and “I am the boss so I decide” can cause unnecessary conflicts within the team. What motivates them?

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Reveal

OCTOBER 14, 2021

We call one application a modern application when it is built with a combination of modular architecture patterns, DevOps, DevSecOps, serverless operational models, and agile development processes that allow businesses to reduce risk and accelerate time to market. You are also guaranteed maximum security as well as fast time to market.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 2, 2019

But product management and development processes that work well for long-lived hardware can handicap software organizations. 1] For industrial hardware, the development/design cycle is separate from the manufacturing cycle. For software products, the development and design process *is* the manufacturing process.

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