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The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 1?—?Seed)

The Product Coalition

Here is how a product strategy can help you create business results, even when the market is not in your favor. I sat with an entrepreneur who was helping me with market research for the work I do with startup founders and explained to him what I do. Photo by Nonki Azariah on Unsplash Last week I had a pleasant surprise.

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Strategic Debt Is the Silent Killer of Startups

The Product Coalition

So they do all sorts of validations and deep analysis processes: market research, business plan, competitive analysis, and so on. Whenever I talk to CPO Bootcamp participants or to my consulting customers about prioritization, I say that your role as a product leader is not to prioritize between the important and not important stuff.

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Do Your Customers Really Want to Pay Less?

The Product Coalition

While I was writing this article, one of my consulting clients called me to talk about this dilemma exactly: as their product is getting more mature and allows more functionality, their UX which was something they were super proud of up until now is getting slightly more complex. Do Your Customers Really Want to Pay Less?

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Make New Product Features Stick

The Product Guy

Guest Post by: David Parmelee, Digital Strategy Consultant. A marketer or market researcher may view patterns in terms of demographics and buying activity. A user researcher or other UX practitioner may group users by patterns in their behavior, both inside and outside your product.

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How to get stakeholder buy-in for user research: 31 expert tips

Userzoom

This free-to-download bundle contains the following resources: Benchmarking 101 [ebook]. How to be a great UX research leader: Engage your stakeholders [Article]. Harry Brignull, User Experience Consultant, brignull.com. Your research should be assisting the top priorities of the company. Do one project really well.

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Q&A with Steve Johnson, VP of Products, Pragmatic Institute

Revulytics

Walking back announcements that marketing – or worse, the CEO – has made. Consultants like me need a quote from Peter Drucker. So here you go: “The aim of marketing is to know and understand customers so well that the product or service fits them and sells itself.”. Cleaning up others’ mistakes.