Product Talk

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

When you start interviewing customers every week, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by how much you are learning. When we use our customer interviews to collect specific stories about past behavior, every conversation can uncover dozens of unmet customer needs, pain points, and desires (AKA opportunities).

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 8, 2019

The day we reached 200 daily users was a critical milestone – more a psychological one for me personally than anything else. Local businesses paid us to be on our website, and people told us that it saved them time. We refined the message and added features important for our partners and users. A story of one failure.

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Product Talk

APRIL 16, 2025

To deliver high-quality online courses we were patching together several different tools to create a good student experience. Others assumed their users were all experienced developers. Some of the challenges that I encountered had nothing to do with my experience level and were simply inexcusable. This got me curious.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

A well-crafted release note can transform how you communicate product updates to your users. With the right release notes template, you can transform your software updates from snooze-fests into engaging content that keeps your users in the loop. They include guidelines that help users understand the value of your software updates.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Without effective UX analytics that goes beyond collecting data, you’re losing valuable customers. Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. Basically, anything that ruins the user experience. What is UX analytics?

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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

As described above it is worth investing time and effort to understand for each new project who has a stake and whom to manage closely or others to just to keep informed. Secondly, when should you spend time to identify stakeholders ? Write their names down and than ask yourself, who couldn’t sleep well when this project fails?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 2, 2022

From the CEO and the management team to the intern fresh out of college, every employee or business owner has unique qualities that position them to bring excellent customer experiences to life. And for Elizabeth Dixon , even the smallest action can cause ripples that turn customers into loyal advocates. Very excited.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Every single person that contributes to building a product, all of the makers in the room, we need to care about our customers, we need to make sure that what we’re building is going to work for them, and I want to introduce some ideas that will help you do that. I hate definition wars. We need to create value for our customers.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Organise the Team around a Product As the name suggests, a product team is focused on a product. I view it as an entity that creates tangible value for users and possibly customers as well as the business. This sounds simple enough. But what is a product?

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 25, 2021

As we move into 2021, the name of this podcast is changing to better reflect our objective here—product managers becoming product masters. That new name is Product Masters Now. . He has significant experience managing global organizations to develop and support products and guide the commercialization of products and technologies.

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Product Talk

JUNE 1, 2022

Not having enough time is one of the main reasons people say they can’t interview customers every week. So the idea of trying to carve out time to recruit and schedule interviews might feel like an impossible task. The idea of trying to carve out time to recruit and schedule interviews might feel like an impossible task.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

It took me time to understand that I need to present myself as a product leadership coach and product strategy expert rather than a consultant. and moreover, that the most common interpretation was not at all what I wanted to deal with, and definitely not where I believe (to date) most entrepreneurs need help. PLG under the hood.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 31, 2022

A mobile survey that is served to your customers at the right place and right time helps you understand who they are, why they use your app, and what improvements they want to see. Understanding and acting on emotion and sentiment are key to any customer experience strategy. Five types of mobile survey questions.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We are at the start of a revolution in customer communication, powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. Our Custom Bots and Resolution Bot already work for thousands of businesses every day. These bots help businesses deliver both radical efficiencies and better, faster support experiences.

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Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Surveying your mobile customers is a great way to find out more about who they are, what drives them back to your app, how they feel about your app, and what they’d like improved. Every customer has unique preferences, tastes, likes, and dislikes. Intuitively, customer individuality makes perfect sense. We’re all different.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Basic definitions Strategy has benefited from several excellent foundational frameworks over the years, from Michael Porter’s work to Good Strategy Bad Strategy , Playing to Win , and The Art of War , to name a few. Let’s establish some basic definitions before diving into the details of Strategy Blocks: 1.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It was almost a year ago when our Customer Success team came up against an issue that all growing teams face: knowledge sharing. Our de-facto ways of working made it difficult for us to learn from one another, especially when it came to socializing best practices for talking to our customers. part of the name.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

The first one carries the risk of being a feature broker and offering a product that has a weak value proposition, gives rise to a poor user experience, and consists of a loose collection of features. While this definition includes users and customers, I use the term in this article to refer to the internal business stakeholders.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 12, 2019

Like the early stages of a burgeoning relationship, multiple steps shape the outcome and determine whether the relationship between you and the user will be a wild success, an unremarkable encounter or a dismal failure. The goal of onboarding isn’t to show new users where features are. Get to know your customers’ needs.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As a support leader, you already know how important it is to take care of your customers – but it’s just as important to take care of your support team. Here’s why human support is so crucial for any customer-centric organization, and how it can have a significant impact on your team, your business, and your customers.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 24, 2023

A customer feedback repository is the place you keep all your feedback data. What is a customer feedback repository? A feedback repository is a central location where product teams can collect and organize customer feedback. Gathering customer feedback is crucial for creating successful products.

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Product Talk

APRIL 21, 2021

We know in the tech industry that we’ve had challenges for a long time in terms of the diversity of our employees. Many tech companies that make voice assistants justify their use of female names and voices by saying that’s what people prefer. We talked to our users and they prefer female names.”

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

In the world of recurring revenue, SaaS companies realize they need engaged customers if they are to grow a healthy, sustainable business. This is where having a solid customer engagement strategy comes in. Nowadays, you have to win over your customers month after month just to keep the lights on. What is customer engagement?

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 18, 2021

How product managers can understand and solve their customers’ problems. This podcast is getting a new name to better align with its purpose of helping product managers become product masters. That new name is Product Masters Now. . Product management begins with the customer problem —Who is the customer?

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Userpilot

MAY 18, 2023

UX deals with a user's interactions with specific aspects of your product, while CX is broader and covers all customer engagements with your brand. TL;DR The user experience (UX) is the sum of a user's thoughts, impressions, and feelings as they interact with specific aspects of your product.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2020

But what happens when you take away the constraints of an actual whiteboard – the location, the space, and the time? Short on time? In our discussion we unpack what this means for them as a company and for their customers. We hear how sharing the pain that your customers experience is key to understanding it.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Crafting an actionable definition for modern product management One of the questions that founders and CEOs often ask in VP / Head of Product interviews is, “What is product management to you?” How it all started For over a decade the definitions I adopted were based on the ultimate guru every PM (including myself) worships: Marty Cagan.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2023

Delayed orders, faulty services, missing information, you name it – every time a customer reaches out, it tells you something about the friction they’ve experienced. Customer service teams are all too often drowning in angry, repetitive tickets, and yet, we don’t seem to focus enough resources on tackling the reasons behind it.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Let’s explore the reasons teams engage customers and the challenges they are likely to face in doing so In the past, I have written a post on how to start engaging customers without going into reasons why that may be helpful. Also, in this post, I do not speak about specific techniques to increase value from customer engagement.

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Userpilot

JULY 10, 2024

Alongside usability testing, user experience interface guidelines allow you to build more intuitive and user-friendly solutions. In this blog, we explain eleven user experience and interaction design guidelines supported by real-life examples to improve product engagement. Control and freedom for users.

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Userpilot

APRIL 21, 2024

In SaaS, a customer onboarding dashboard can become a massive product analytics tool to understand and optimize the user journey. Let’s explore how a customer onboarding dashboard works and see different examples. Create an onboarding metrics dashboard to measure KPIs like new signups, activation rate , and time to value.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. But for sprint review meetings , you may also want to invite (selected) users and customers to collect their feedback. This can make it harder for people to free up the necessary time and attend them.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 18, 2021

In previous episodes, we’ve talked about how customer feedback and cross-team collaboration play a crucial role in the features and updates we build here at Intercom. Or rather, two – conversation topics and custom reports. Tanya Sivo: Hi, my name is Tanya Sivo and I’m a product designer. What does success look like?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

In these moments it’s helpful to gauge the sentiment of internal stakeholders and customers to prioritize a messy backlog. RICE Brief summary The model uses four simple metrics based on personal estimates: Reach (number of users), Impact (3, 2, 1 or 0.5), Confidence (0% to 100%) and Effort (total man weeks invested).

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

Securing everyone’s buy-in would be impractical—it would most likely take too much time. But when bigger changes are required or the group is more diverse, the approach is not only time-consuming. Instead, reaching an agreement is a collaborative effort. Stakeholders learn about their respective ideas, concerns, and interests.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You’re investing resources in hiring and training the right people, tracking different metrics at different stages, adding more and more complexity with each increase in headcount, use cases, and customers. Natasha Ratanshi-Stein is the founder of Surfboard , a software company that offers scheduling tooling for customer support teams.

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Userpilot

JULY 22, 2024

Gather data through focus groups, surveys , interviews, and experiments to build accurate, data-driven user personas. Key elements include definition, target audience, key benefit, category, competitive advantage, and differentiation. It attracted a diverse user base and achieved significant market penetration.

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