The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

This is largely caused due to not researching enough around the market you are building for understanding the target audience and spending enough time with your customers to build empathy for them and understand their pain points. How Products Fail Without Customer Empathy. First Principles of customer empathy.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 22, 2023

Understanding user needs and pain points is essential for building successful products and services, but that doesn’t mean we need to get stuck going down a multi-month research hole in order to be “ready” to collaborate, innovate, or prototype. These forums offer rich insights around needs and pain points.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

In this digital-first world, understanding your customers’ experiences is more crucial than ever. To better understand the common challenges organizations face with digital feedback tools, we conducted a comprehensive market research study that revealed several critical pain points.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Start by creating onboarding flows that are as unique as your users. Focus your attention on their pain points , needs, and desires. Use welcome surveys to identify users’ jobs to be done and use cases. Finally, recreate the relevant path for new users. The best way to do this is via segmentation.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 17, 2024

Sometimes it’s because they’ve personally experienced a pain point and want to address it. ThoughtFlow combines the visual flow of a whiteboard with the data modeling of a spreadsheet so that teams can shape their journey from an idea to its outcome without creating silos and losing context across multiple tools.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Through market research, she discovered her ideal customers weren’t whom she initially expected. The service attracted a surprisingly diverse customer base, ranging from 16 to 85 years old, including professionals across various industries – from sales executives to pastors.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 10, 2022

With infinite choices and limited bandwidth, how do you decide what to prioritize when it comes to improving your mobile customer experience? Learning more about your customers is the best place to start. Step #1: Capture mobile customer feedback. Step #2: Analyze the qualitative and quantitative data.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 29, 2022

How product managers can understand their customers better than anyone else. If you have listened to me before, there is a good chance you’ve heard me say we need to fall in love with the customer’s problem, not our solution. Getting enamored with our solution can distract us from the customer experience.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

After every discussion with customers, sales, service, leadership and my colleagues, I was left with a laundry list of problems that needed my attention. As a product manager, my goal is to ensure customer satisfaction, long term success of my product and contributing to the success of my organization.

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The Product Guy

MAY 30, 2019

Hypotheses are only useful if we test them (with customers), to validate or discard them. As an example, our problem statement could be: Customers encounter a series of friction points when embarking on a shopping journey in a large supermarket. The problems to solve: customer impact and business impact.

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Product Talk

JULY 8, 2020

As you collect customers’ stories, you are going to hear about countless needs, pain points, and desires. Our customers’ stories are rife with gaps between what they expect and how the world works. Each gap represents an opportunity to serve your customer. But our job is not to address every customer opportunity.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

Pro Tip: Pair your quick wins with data. A dashboard showing metrics like feature adoption or user engagement amplifies your credibility. Address Pain Points Proactively: Regularly ask for feedback to show you value their input and are ready to adjust course. It shows youre thoughtful, analytical, and focused on results.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Most businesses design customer experiences from the inside out, based on what is best for the company, when they should be doing the exact opposite. Few people are as passionate about customer experience as Annette, the founder and CEO of consulting firm CX Journey Inc. How to put the “customer” in “customer experience”.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 1, 2020

Today, customer expectations are at an all-time high. A proactive customer support approach is the key to regaining control. But this approach not only overwhelms your team, it also means customers frequently have to wait hours or even days to get the help they need. What is proactive customer support?

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It’s an organizational issue—moving quickly to beat competitors and keep up with changing customer preferences. When companies take the time to design products that match what the customer needs, profits soar, customer satisfaction (and retention) soars, and employee satisfaction gets a nice uptick too.

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Productside

MARCH 18, 2025

Scaling a product isnt just about selling moreits about refining product-market fit, unlocking the right growth levers, and making sure your go-to-market strategy actually aligns with what your customers need. In this episode of Productside Stories, our host Rina Alexin talks to Rachel Owens , product executive and growth expert.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2022

A customer journey can be defined as the interactions a customer has with your brand from the very first time they engage with you to the point of purchase. What are the steps of the customer journey? At each phase of the customer journey there are touchpoints. What is a customer journey map?

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Customer support is more business-critical than ever. But in today’s fast-paced world, your customer support can only be as effective as the technology that underpins it. Study after study shows that the vast majority of support teams are unhappy with their current customer support tech stacks. The future of support is here.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Firstly, Jeff as a new umbrella brand for all the new services will be providing to our customers; Secondly, a new business line called Beauty Jeff was opening the very first venue in Argentina. For product leaders, that means taking a step back to build a team that can be customer-centric and deliver ongoing innovation to the market.

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Product Talk

JUNE 19, 2024

But when we use generative AI to replace customer interviews , to generate opportunity solution trees , or to do our thinking for us, we fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of discovery. Discovering unmet customer needs, pain points, and desires—AKA opportunities. The opportunities represent customer value.

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Userpilot

MARCH 9, 2025

What happens when you build a product or service around what you think potential customers want, only for them to buy something else? For starters, it shows you dont know your customers well enough. But worse than that, it leads to lower revenue, failed products, and plummeting customer loyalty. The short answer: yes.

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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. I mentioned at the start our company values: obsessesing over our customer success. Thomas: Awesome.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2022

Creating quality customer experiences has always been important for retaining customers. Now, during this time of economic uncertainty and against a competitive landscape, effective customer engagement is business critical. Below, we take a deeper dive into the report’s key data and trends.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 18, 2021

Good product discovery includes the customer throughout the decision-making process. Good product discovery includes the customer throughout the decision-making process. Good product discovery includes the customer throughout that process. If we are lucky, we might do some customer research at the beginning of the project.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

While “use data to drive decision-making” sounds obvious, there’s a HUGE gap between saying it and doing it well. Product analytics refers to the process of gathering and analyzing data on how users interact with a product. This process may reveal gaps such as: Insufficient raw data. Outdated technology.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 19, 2024

“We’re not competitor-obsessed, we’re customer-obsessed. We start with what the customer needs and we work backwards.” – Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon. For product managers, the path to success—both on an individual level and for the company as a whole—depends on a deep understanding of their customers.

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Product Talk

MAY 4, 2022

According to Steve, “The problems that come with that are capturing, organizing, and prioritizing feedback at scale, so that without too much time investment product managers can distill raw data into actionable insights which inform discovery and ultimately drive roadmap decisions.”. Let’s look at each one in more detail. Tweet This.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2023

Healthcare data exchange refers to the sharing of patient health information between various stakeholders, including payers (insurance companies), life sciences (pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies), and providers (doctors, hospitals, and clinics).

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Product Talk

APRIL 9, 2025

Customer-facing APIs are products. When engineers encounter friction when learning a new API, it reduces their likelihood of having success with your product. You want customers to get value from your product as quickly as possible. The easiest way to fix this is to test your documentation with real customers.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Surveys, combined with open text analysis, however, hold immense potential for uncovering deeper customer insights from customer feedback. In this post we explore how to effectively incorporate open text analysis into your CX survey strategy to unlock those deeper customer insights. How can we improve the user experience?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 26, 2022

Yes, product and pricing are still important ingredients – but, a great customer experience is the secret sauce (chef’s kiss). Here are 5 ways e-commerce companies can improve their customer experience: Act on customer feedback. Maintain an omnichannel customer experience. Prioritize meaningful customer engagement.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 12, 2022

One of the biggest challenges that business owners or product managers (PM) face is figuring out what their customers want. Too often, we ask customers what they want, instead of asking what they do. Instead of asking customers what they want, ask them what they do. Your customer is not the solution designer.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

It’s no secret that when it comes to support, customer expectations are higher than ever before – but how are support leaders and teams adapting to these increased demands? Nearly two-thirds (58%) would sever their relationship with a business due to poor customer service. Understand how customer expectations are changing.

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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. What I saw was they were talking to customers periodically.

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AB Tasty

MAY 20, 2025

Feedback Copilot Feedback Copilot was born from this pain point combining the best of AI with our all-in-one experimentation platform. And it does all this while respecting data privacy , using a self-hosted model (Hugging Face) instead of sending sensitive content to third-party LLMs. What makes our Feedback Copilot unique?

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