Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 9, 2023

Insights on brand storytelling for product managers. This is a branding and messaging issue. We have to tell the product and brand story effectively. Sarah also speaks on topics for humanizing your brand. 2:14] What is brand storytelling? Brand storytelling educates, entertains, and inspires your audience.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Why a Product Strategy Process Matters. An effective product strategy process should ensure that a valid product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are always available—that a shared and valid approach to achieving product success is available at anytime, as the picture below illustrates. Timeboxed Strategizing.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 23, 2024

Product positioning strategies are not only a marketing tactic but a survival strategy. In this article, we’ll go over product positioning definitions and their types, then go over our process for creating a product positioning strategy that gets positive user feedback. Why are product positioning strategies important?

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Userpilot

APRIL 17, 2024

Google Trends helps businesses differentiate products in crowded markets by identifying evolving consumer interests and regional search behaviors. Google Analytics 4 offers advanced tools for understanding cross-platform customer behavior, aiding product differentiation and tailored offerings in a competitive market.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 31, 2023

Differentiated : The aspects of your product that make it stand out , set it apart from alternative offerings are stated. Business Goals Outcome-based : The desired business benefits, the company’s reason for investing in the product, are clearly described, for example, revenue, brand equity, cost savings.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Hold Regular Product Strategy Reviews. A product strategy , like any other plan, is subject to change. How changeable your strategy is, depends on your product’s life cycle stage. As long as your product hasn’t reached product-market fit, the strategy is usually volatile. Look at Four Key Factors.

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Alchemer Mobile

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

So, what are Travel and Hospitality brands to do? Here are our top recommendations for Travel and Hospitality brands at this time: Focus on reducing customer churn and boosting loyalty. From account creation to browsing to checkout to shipment tracking, digital is the only place customers are experiencing your brand at the moment.

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Sachin Rekhi

APRIL 12, 2020

Beyond product/market fit, it turns out business strategy really does matter. A sound strategy can make the difference between our initial product/market fit being ephemeral versus the beginning of a meaningful and lasting business. He then further refined his concepts as a business strategy professor at Stanford University.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

However, despite a strong, socially motivated purpose, TOMS struggled due to a lack of focus on business value and product differentiation. While their socially oriented purpose was commendable, the company faced hurdles in value delivery across their business model, product offering, and brand differentiation in a rapidly changing market.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 12, 2017

The Strategy Canvas. The Strategy Canvas was developed by Kim and Mauborgne, the authors of Blue Ocean Theory. It was originally intended as a business strategy tool to discover new markets. The Strategy Canvas above ranks the first iPhone against its rivals, including the Nokia N95 and the BlackBerry Curve.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Welcome back to creating your strategy stack. In Part 2, we dive into establishing your organization's strategy and goals. If you missed Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on the Mission, North Star, and Vision. Subscribe now What’s in a Strategy?

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

This article assumes that you are familiar with the product vision board or the key elements of a product strategy : market, value proposition, standout features, and business goals. Causes : A lack of understanding of users and their needs, lack of empowerment of the person in charge of the product, inappropriate growth strategy.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As a product marketer though, this is more about your strategy and execution tactics that lead to year-over-year revenue growth. That credibility is often what differentiates you in the end. It’ll tarnish our brand.” Competitive Differentiation The lead story here is not a feature comparison matrix. You already know that.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We talk about product parity or brand parity when a brand’s product offers exactly the same functionality as competing products. Product parity also limits your marketing and branding strategies. In fact, the only differentiator you can use to stand out from competing parity products is price.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Analyzing user behavior can help you understand how users perceive your product and brand. Predictive analytics are driving business decisions such as product and marketing strategy. 60% of consumers say they’ve purchased from a particular brand solely based on its services. Here are the top trends to watch out for.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

For example, generate revenue or meet a profit margin, reduce cost, or develop the brand? In order to answer the questions above, you may want to use techniques such as direct observation, user interviews, prototyping, creating a strategy canvas or E-R-R-C grid , and you may capture some of them using a tool like my product vision board.

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Pragmatic Marketing

MAY 23, 2017

Put another way: Your personal brand is more important than ever. And if you are the product, why not manage your personal brand like a product? The key is to create long-term extensibility for your brand. What you need is a product strategy. Then, devise a strategy for how to foster and develop those skills.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 22, 2021

It’s critical for sales organizations to leverage their customer experience during the sales process as a key brand differentiator ”. It’s critical for sales organizations to leverage their customer experience during the sales process as a key brand differentiator.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

A few points to consider: 91% of consumers are likely to switch to a brand or product that supports a good cause, given a similar price and quality. 74% of consumers expect brands to take a stand on important issues. A greater purpose builds loyalty and trust amongst otherwise fickle consumers.

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Dear Strategy

MAY 26, 2020

On this episode of Dear Strategy, we answer the following question…. Dear Strategy: “What are the key elements to have in a successful strategy for a non-core product? An example of this might be a company that decides to get into a brand-new product category that is completely different from the main products that it sells.

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UX Studio

APRIL 25, 2019

Still, how users react to your brand strategy lies relatively out of your hands. Words, logos, brand colours just trigger things – their power resides in associations. Previous experience with a specific brand deeply influences the way people perceive it. Let’s jump into branding research! Do research!

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The Product Guy

MARCH 16, 2018

Product management requires product strategy. These are all key questions addressed as part of product strategy. To my surprise, the key need across my multiple products was to identify and drive the product strategy. Guest Post by: Marissa Fong (Mentee, Session 5, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Bill Gourlay].

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In the article, we’re looking at the responsibilities of strategic product managers and how they can use data effectively to shape product strategy and deliver delightful experiences to users! Product strategy defines who we are building for, what to build, and how to build it. Goals are important aspects of the product strategy.

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Alchemer Mobile

JANUARY 21, 2021

At this point, thousands of retailers have implemented some sort of buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS) strategy, and consumers have come to expect it from big and small brands alike. By eliminating third-party variables like shipping carriers, brands can gain more control over the entire customer experience. So, why is this?

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 19, 2023

As this week sees the release of the Barbie movie starring the fabulous Margot Robbie (and Ryan Gosling) BoS is going pink for the day to celebrate this iconic brand and – more importantly – the savvy business model behind it.

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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.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 18, 2024

The cost of starting a business is lower than ever, products are commoditized, and markets are saturated, which means achieving true differentiation is tough. So, how can you differentiate your company in this environment? With a top-level CX strategy, the entire customer journey becomes distinctly you—distinctly your brand.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Today, numerous studies echo this sentiment: a recent report from Forrester found that brands with a superior customer experience bring in 5.7 And a recent study from Deloitte found that two-thirds of customers will switch brands entirely due to a poor customer experience. Strategy and leadership. Employee experience.

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Nulab

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Whether you’re an established company with a new product or a brand-new startup, knowing where you fit in the market is vital. Any good positioning strategy begins with plenty of research. Your positioning strategy is about finding your space in the market and focusing your efforts on making that space yours. Let’s get started!

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Userpilot

APRIL 19, 2024

Dive into the Net Promoter Score definition to discover mirror customer sentiment and how it can help redefine your business strategy. At the core of strategies focused on customer satisfaction , the Net Promoter Score is widely used for measuring customer loyalty and customer satisfaction with your SaaS product.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Brian also shares HubSpot’s strategy for creating an industry-defining category that helped more than 86,000 customers in over 120 countries move from unwelcome outbound marketing to permission-based inbound marketing. What do these brands have in common? Proven strategies for creating a transformative category.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 8, 2023

A complete analysis of the market trends, your business plan, market situation, potential customers, competitors, and marketing strategies should be done to reduce the chances of business failure or any increased cost in the future. The product or services you provide should have a uniqueness that differentiates your business from others.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2022

As a result, digital technologies are being seen as the critical differentiators they are. With digital becoming an integral part of the new normal, those brands that can elevate the human experience will be able to make a lasting emotional connection with their customers, which then becomes transformational.”. So how do you stand out?

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Andrew Chen

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

99% of startups are not differentiated on their underlying technology, and there is very little engineering risk involved. (I’m Because technology differentiation is no longer a real factor today start ups, it turns out that most products are succeeding or failing due to core product/market fit followed by the distribution strategy.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

It might generate brand new value for them or reduce the pain they currently experience. Strategy Canvas Blue Ocean canvas for Master Class vs Coursera and Udemy in MOOC market With strategy canvas, the first step is to identify attributes our customers find the most valuable. Let’s see some of the most popular. Delighters ?—?are

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UX Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

Persuasive design uses psychological principles and strategies to guide users towards specific actions or outcomes. That’s a popular strategy designed to make users spend more time on the website. The Usefulness of Persuasive Design Like I mentioned earlier, a lot of brands still make use of persuasive design.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Competitor analysis enables PMs to find areas where rivals fail customers and develop sound positioning and differentiation strategies. They could also result from inadequate user onboarding leading to low feature discovery and adoption, ineffective marketing strategy , and poor user experience. What are examples of market gaps?

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