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The Important Product Manager Skill That You’re Missing

The Product Manager Coach Blog

Plus, don’t forget to download the free guide, 10 Tips for Being a Better Product Manager , at the end of this post! Every connection you make is a potential solution to a problem you haven’t encountered yet. It includes tech enthusiasts, market researchers, and even end-users. Download the free guide now!

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30 Steps to Mobile App Launch

Alchemer Mobile

Unfortunately, “If you build it, they will come” does not hold true when it comes to the mobile app launch. This famous line from Field of Dreams is all too representative of how many app publishers face the ‘inessentiality’ of mobile marketing. They focus all of their time and resources on building a great app. It’s marketing.

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Business model first–and other innovation insights for product managers Aug 19, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Using the Lean Canvas is one tool I recommend to help product managers think through the business model while crafting new product concepts. Next perform primary research (know your customers) and secondary research (market and environment influences). Click here to download it for yourself. good-products-bad-businesses/.

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Product Mindset: Encouraging Ownership in a Scrum Team

The Product Coalition

If the team members are not yet involved in user research, for example, by running user interviews themselves, 5-min lightning talks from colleagues working in sales, customer care, or UX provide an excellent opportunity to get a better understanding of our customers’ needs and the market-place. Our tool of choice is the persona canvas.

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Lessons on building a viral consumer app: The story of Saturn

Lenny Rachitsky

I recently heard about an app called Saturn that reached the top of the App Store charts—and stayed there. As I dug in and chatted with the founders, I was blown away by how methodically they were able to articulate what it takes to build a viral consumer app (particularly one targeted at Gen Z). This is incredibly rare.