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5 Costly Branding Mistakes

UX Planet

The last thing you need is to stumble into the abyss of bad branding, a place where countless others have lost their way. SELECT Branding Process by Shakuro Mistake #1: Neglecting market research Market research is the North Star of branding. It illuminates your target audience, their pain points, and desires.

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9 essential sales steps you need to grow your SaaS startup

Intercom, Inc.

It is important that these friendly connections represent the target persona market you have outlined, as otherwise, the feedback loop is likely to be weak. If they don’t match the persona market, these contacts are not likely to offer constructive criticism given they may not even relate to the pain you are seeking to address.

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7 Habits of Highly Effective Product Managers

ProductPlan

The products you bring to the market are just vehicles to solve those problems. They develop their roadmap as a list of features, rather than using the roadmap to communicate the value they expect the product to deliver. For example: You will often be too optimistic about what your team can build in the time you have.

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Make New Product Features Stick

The Product Guy

Guest Post by: David Parmelee, Digital Strategy Consultant. As you study the people who use your product or might use it, patterns start to emerge. A marketer or market researcher may view patterns in terms of demographics and buying activity. User personas stand in for users throughout the design of your product.

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

Userzoom

Some stakeholders need to see the effects on the team to really appreciate the value, which is where design sprints come into play. UX Researcher / Designer. When new to a project or team, conduct key stakeholder interviews. Another way is to get better value for stakeholders out of the user research that we do.

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How to succeed in 2020: the most important insights from 8 recent market research studies

The Product Coalition

After all, when you know exactly what metrics are growing, what market leaders are betting on, how and what budgets are spent, what marketing solutions are chosen, what practices should be implemented and what to focus on in the near future, life becomes better. Give priority to developing relationships with existing customers.

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Customer Education & Training: The Investment That Keeps on Giving

Gainsight

As anyone who has developed a training center will tell you, the number one goal of this effort is to get people to utilize training materials. In the past few years, Northpass has helped some of the world’s most innovative brands (Uber, Shopify, Airbnb, and The Economist) with developing their online learning centers.