Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Product experts have tried to tackle this issue but they gloss over the impact a company’s structure and leadership team have on product/market fit. For many consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, product teams report to marketing, sales, finance, or strategy leads. Different Teams, Different Priorities.

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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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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

According to Customedialabs , the typical bounce rate for good performing e-commerce and retail products is 20%?—?45%, 45%, for B2B products it is 25%?—?55%, Interestingly, the bounce rate tells a lot whether you are close to your product/market fit or not. 55%, and for lead generation websites it is 30%?—?55%.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

Using Sean Ellis Test For Measuring Your Product/Market Fit Sean Ellis, who is the author of “ Hacking Growth ,” as well as the first marketer at Dropbox and the guy who coined the phrase “ growth hacking ,” has a simple technique that helps product teams to measure whether they reached their product/market fit or not.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. Ideally, you will have directly assisted a product manager on one of your projects.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. Ideally, you will have directly assisted a product manager on one of your projects.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The first product manager in a startup is a critical role with immense impact on the startup’s success?—?both Photo by Tolga Ulkan on Unsplash When I joined Twiggle as their first VP Product I was the thirteenth employee. Shortly after I started, the CEO surprised me by saying I should hire a product manager.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels When I started Infinify, I told the world I am shifting to product consulting. I knew what I really wanted to do, and the way I understood the term ‘product consulting’ described it quite well. The market, however, understood it differently. Not all markets want to buy this way.

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Product Management University

MARCH 3, 2021

The performance of product management and the ripple effect (positive and negative) on engineering, marketing, sales and customer success is front and center this month. Enjoy The B2B Product Manager March issue. Blog: High-Octane Product Management. Product Management Playbook.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Strategies for switching into a product management role when you don’t fit the cookie cutter qualifications. Getting into product when you’ve already started your career Product management requires, above anything else, good judgment. It shouldn’t be a prerequisite for product management jobs either.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 17, 2020

B2B Product Manager December 2020 Issue. We’d welcome the opportunity to be your partner in 2021 to become more customer outcome focused in how you build, market, sell and deploy your solutions. Enjoy the B2B Product Manager December issue. Blog: High-Octane Product Management. In This Issue.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It’s about adapting your marketing, product and go-to-market strategy to give your product the best chance at wide market penetration and adoption. In this context, your product launch strategy isn’t just a plan for launch execution.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. Learning more about how to formulate strategy, therefore, was not only a personal goal, but also one that I foresaw will help the company scale. I admit that in the past, I have been soured on “strategy” as a discipline.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

B2B Product Manager November 2020 Issue. As the pandemic economy has forced all of us to completely rethink everything, we also give you a list of things to consider for product management, product marketing and sales in 2021. Enjoy the B2B Product Manager November issue. View the magazine.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

There is a ton of product management advice out there, but most of it is generic tips repeated over and over again. With a self-named newsletter and podcast, Lenny is a widely followed product expert. Lenny is a newsletter writer, podcast host, angel investor, and product consultant.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Women are still underrepresented in the Product Profession – with only 33.3% of US Product Managers being female in 2021, according to a metastudy of 30 million profiles conducted by Zippia : Source: [link]. Melissa Perri – Speaker, consultant, and teacher in Product Management.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Cosmetic product managers are going after millennials Image Credit: Albert Lugosi. I mean, customers try products, select the ones that they like, and that’s the end of the story, right? At stake is a share of the global cosmetics-products market, which is expected to reach US$805.61 billion in 2017.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2020

What is each flavour of product manager responsible for? In my previous post, I introduced the four different flavours of product manager, depicted by the PM quadrants matrix. What are the four flavours of product manager? Stakeholder management is important across all quadrants too.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021. out of 5 stars. 54 global ratings. Where to buy?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 12, 2020

Also an ex-Googler, ex-consultant, Berkeley Haas MBA and Cornell alum. In preparation for applying to Product Marketing Manager roles, the standard application suite applies: a resume, cover letter, and maybe some additional materials like references or transcripts.

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Userpilot

APRIL 1, 2022

What does the SaaS product localization process involve? How can product managers prepare products for expansion into other markets? How do you develop and implement a SaaS localization strategy? What is a product localization strategy? Anna Iokhimovich , localization consultant.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2022

Theoretically you would think that a consulting business isn’t impacted by the time of the year, but I learned that that’s not true. Since I deal with strategic consulting , many companies reach out to me when they start to think about next year, which happens sometimes in H2. That’s why the product strategy is so important?—?it

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The Product Bistro

AUGUST 30, 2016

I bought a copy of “ The Phenomenal Product Manager ” in 2009 or so on a lark. Written by Brian Lawley, the top man at the 280Group , a consultancy, and training organization with deep product management and product marketing skills and reputations, I was at first put off by how thin the book was.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2021

An excellent user engagement strategy can have a ripple effect on what product marketers’ care the most about: Make your users see the value of your product and its features during the free trial. Stop users from only signing up and then never using the product. No matter how fast you run, you will never reach it.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

What strategies can you implement to drive acquisition and retention faster? The expert speakers at Product Drive 2023 will answer these and many more questions. Product Drive is Userpilot’s FREE online event where experts from top companies come to share growth and marketing insights. But how do you do that?

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 30, 2017

These words couldn’t be more relevant to product management. Such a trait is crucial to Product Management roles if you want sales, marketing and engineering to trust and follow your direction. She summarized her frameworks through her first book, “Software Product Management Essentials”, first out in 2003.

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Actuation Consulting

JUNE 24, 2019

No matter how awesome your product, without a well-conceived launch strategy, it will likely sputter off the launch pad. What Is a Launch Strategy? Your product launch strategy delineates the approach you plan to take in getting your product to market. The Completed Launch Strategy.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

What is Product Launch Management? Product launch management is the process of coordinating all strategic efforts needed for a successful market release. Creating sales collateral for the product. Who’s Responsible for Product Launch Management? Marketing and sales enablement.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 26, 2021

You know how when you log into a SaaS product, you often notice the UI has changed or there are new options that weren't there before? That's SaaS product management hustling in the background to give you the best experience.

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Many people think technical knowledge is the most important quality in a product management team. That’s what I thought when I came to product management with a background in engineering. In the five years I’ve spent at Amplitude, I’ve worked with hundreds of product development teams.

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Dear Strategy

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Dear Strategy: “What is a strategy?”. What is a strategy?”. So, here’s the easiest answer I can give: Strategy is nothing more than a plan to achieve a goal. The framework that I teach through Strategy Generation Company has three main parts to it: Analysis – Understanding your market, industry, and business.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Product operations is a hot topic for product management thought leaders, but not everyone fully understands what it is and how it might help their organization. Product operations isn’t a product team’s first or second hire. However, it begins making more sense as the team grows and products mature.

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

In this article, we've compiled the 10 must-read onboarding books that'll enable you to transform your user onboarding strategies. TL;DR You can try the following books to enhance user onboarding strategies: Product Rantz by Userpilot reveals what to do and what not to do for successful onboarding with valuable insights and humor.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Many startups with an ordinary product make the way to growth and scalability whereas others with great products fail to survive. Both product and product strategy should fall in place to make the startup sustainable and help them to grow. What and Why and the inspirational differences that product brings.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 12, 2023

Here are a few things to consider when you seek your next product leader. Photo by Mark Rabe on Unsplash When I started Infinify five years ago, I announced that I am offering product consulting services. But since the term ‘product consulting’ could mean very different things, I got a variety of leads with various needs.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2022

After the overnight success of Chat OpenAI, it’s no wonder predictions related to using AI and machine learning to increase our understanding of user behavior , greater automation of low-level tasks , and GPT-4 dominate Product Managers’ and Marketers’ projections for the upcoming year.

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Actuation Consulting

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Over the past few weeks we’ve considered a number of key product management tools. Today we will look at two of the most important: the Product Vision and Product Strategy documents. Defining a Product Vision Document. The Product Vision document looks into the future.

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