Product Management University

OCTOBER 11, 2023

When your differentiating value isn’t abundantly clear, the deal ends up with no decision or worse yet, a loss. If you’re managing products in silos that means you’re looking at customer needs in silos, building products in silos, marketing products in silos…you get the drift.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 4, 2021

Everyone knows educating the market is hard to nearly impossible, but people always bring up examples like Facebook or the iPhone whenever I discuss it in my lectures. So what can and cannot work when you want to educate the market? Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 15, 2023

The biggest difference between product management and portfolio management is product management focuses specifically on the success of each product whereas portfolio management focuses on the success of the company (the portfolio) in chosen market segments. It’s a logical question but the answer is a definitive no.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

If you were to ask me whether you, as a product manager , should you always listen to market feedback? My answer would be yes, definitely. Henry Ford is famously quoted as eschewing market feedback by saying that if he’d listened to his customers, they’d have asked for faster horses. Here’s why. Common B2B Feedback Traps.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 29, 2021

Just ask any content marketer – they would rather have the resources and the time to focus on both, because to build a strong marketing brand, you need an approach that covers both the awareness and the acquisition. Blog articles, podcasts, ebooks, and videos have been the bread and butter for content marketers for a long time now.

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BrainMates

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

As a Product Manager I love the words “market-driven” They have purpose and connotations of real market intelligence (“customer-centric” sits in the same bucket). What is a “market-driven” Product? A two-tier definition of market-driven Product. It’s more than just market research.

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BrainMates

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

What Is A ‘Market-Driven’ Product? As a product manager, I love the words ‘market-driven’ They have purpose and connotations of real market intelligence. What is a market-driven product? What is a market-driven product? A Two-Tier Definition Of Market-Driven Product. By ADRIENNE TAN.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2020

The notion of storytelling has pervaded the marketing world as of late. So it’s no surprise that storytelling has become such a popular part of brand marketing. And yet, all this emphasis on storytelling glosses over the quality that’s even more crucial for a brand’s content marketing to find success: personality.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

How marketing and product management work together. Turns out if you ask 50 different people what marketing is, you’ll hear 50 different answers. That is what our guest did to investigate what people think about marketing and how it fits into the work product managers do. The Creative Cloud was a definite risk.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 13, 2021

A good product experience is the primary driver behind product differentiation and ultimately, lasting customer satisfaction (measured through CSAT and NPS ) and loyalty. Beforehand, make sure your team is aligned on: Their definition of product experience. After you’ve socialized your ideas, it’s time to set time for a formal kickoff.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 28, 2019

A great partnership between product and sales needs to be based on shared definitions of success and an agreed upon process to collaborate. Marketable – be attractive enough to differentiate itself from competitors. However, a great product is more than something that “the market accepts”. You need to differentiate.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Product parity should be avoided because such products are unlikely to disrupt the market and never command premium pricing. Product parity also limits your marketing and branding strategies. In fact, the only differentiator you can use to stand out from competing parity products is price. Product parity definition.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 6, 2020

Product marketing is one of the newest and most impactful roles within an organization. As a product marketing manager (PMM), you influence most areas of the organization including product, design, sales, support, and, of course, marketing. That degree doesn’t have to be in marketing, but it certainly helps.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 6, 2015

However I've seen too many startups use the lean startup methodology as an excuse to fly by the seat of their pants and shun almost any structure to their approach to iterating, validating, and finding product/market fit. Here is what I typically capture when initially documenting a startup's product/market fit hypotheses: 1.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 14, 2024

Cutting overhead is definitely not personal—it’s all about how managers perceive an employee’s value. While managers can determine how different various developers, testers, UX, etc people are, very few managers can differentiate one agile coach from another. Worse, many staff jobs are commodity positions.

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Pragmatic Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

When awash with data and metrics, it’s easy for a product marketer to overlook precision in using the language of messaging. It originally appeared on Sharebird — the place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. ” Address one market segment at a time when developing the message. See below.).

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Pragmatic Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

When awash with data and metrics, it’s easy for a product marketer to overlook precision in using the language of messaging. It originally appeared on Sharebird — the place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. ” Address one market segment at a time when developing the message. See below.).

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Usersnap

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Definition of 1-to-5 Rating Scales Surveys 5 Types of 1 to 5 Rating Surveys 1. Semantic Differential Scale 5. Versatility in Product Management Understanding User Satisfaction Assessing Usability Determining Feature Preferences Aligning with Market Trends Gathering Targeted Feedback for Iterations 5. Satisfaction Scale 2.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

However, too many organizations don't differentiate between what they need to ship as experiments and when to finalize the product. Not the customer and definitely not the organization. You, as I, might discover new markets and new products. That allows me the most flexibility in my product development.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Before you build products or features or create any positioning, start with the solution — the customer’s definition of what they’re doing, why it’s critical to their business and the obstacles standing in their way. Want to learn the easy way to define solutions before you build or market them? Related Articles.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 18, 2024

The cost of starting a business is lower than ever, products are commoditized, and markets are saturated, which means achieving true differentiation is tough. So, how can you differentiate your company in this environment? Customer Success (CS) definitely owns one part of the journey, but not until after a contract is signed.

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The Product Cafe

MARCH 24, 2024

This haste can result in a product that fails to clearly communicate its purpose, benefits, and value proposition to the intended audience despite its presence in the market. Ignoring the Competition ⛔ Failing to acknowledge and differentiate from competitors can make your messaging feel stale and undifferentiated.

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BrainMates

MAY 28, 2019

SnapComms is a medium-sized New Zealand software company who wanted to evolve its sales-led culture into a market-led culture. Facilitating a market-driven way of thinking. customer service, engineering, marketing and sales, etc). customer service, engineering, marketing and sales, etc). Where do you start?

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NextBigWhat

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Note that the core product management skills, i.e.empathy, customer centricity continues to be the important elements of the PM role, but in order to avoid yada yada gyaawn, let’s focus on the actionable new skills which will truly differentiate the great product managers from average ones, given the tailwinds. A lot of it.

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Mixpanel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Read on for our conversation with Xu about finding product-market fit when you’re the ideal user, growing a following vs. growing an app, and what the future of social media looks like. But if you’re going to build a differentiating social network, it really has to be at least a 10x or 20x differentiator.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 22, 2019

There were competitive products that solved the same exact problems, and then there were competitive products that didn’t even come close, but their marketing or sales teams did something to convince buyers otherwise. It’s the classic definition of a solution! Change the Conversation From Product to Practice. Here’s the difference.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

A lot of them worked in other positions before moving to product management, like engineers, analysts, marketers and project managers, and learned by taking on extra responsibilities. It was a mind expanding exercise and set a clear structure for me to rethink what is really the differentiation factor in our product. .

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 4, 2020

If you’re a product manager or part of a startup, you’ve likely heard about the Minimum Viable Product concept for getting products to market faster. In my opinion, the definition of an MVP is often misunderstood, and I’ve seen entrepreneurs and product teams misinterpret it with unfortunate results. Getting to the MVP.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 23, 2024

Product positioning strategies are not only a marketing tactic but a survival strategy. In this article, we’ll go over product positioning definitions and their types, then go over our process for creating a product positioning strategy that gets positive user feedback. Pricing-based positioning which emphasizes competitive pricing.

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Haines-Group

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Custom Criteria Models This approach allows your organization to establish a customized set of stable criteria that suit the organization’s particular product category, market, business priorities, company culture, or other factors. The system prioritizes the more important features that you can bring to market more quickly.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

While it is definitely a feasible and reasonable solution it is far from perfect and has some disadvantages, as I will try to depict below. You build the minimal capabilities to allow you to get into a product-market fit. Once you get to product-market fit and start to grow, this becomes the time to start paying the debt.

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Dear Strategy

AUGUST 27, 2018

Dear Strategy: “Can you talk about some of the newer trends in marketing that should be considered when putting together a marketing strategy?”. . Finally – a question about marketing strategy!!! Business, Product, and Marketing Strategies. Most companies that I work with have three layers of strategy.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 24, 2024

Understand The Evolution of UX Portfolios in the US tech market: What’s Trending in 2024 is not what is trending 5 years ago. The differentiator? Strive for a portfolio that’s undeniably exceptional, one that you’re unequivocally proud of, and don’t stop until you get there. How you weave your narrative and context into your work.

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Ask Benny

DECEMBER 4, 2019

While it is definitely a feasible and reasonable solution it is far from perfect and has some disadvantages, as I will try to depict below. You build the minimal capabilities to allow you to get into a product-market fit. Once you get to product-market fit and start to grow, this becomes the time to start paying the debt.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 9, 2024

Furthermore, soft skills like product sense, communication, creativity, and being the glue that enables a team to operate at their very best will become even more important (and a differentiator among companies). That being said, I can definitely imagine AI tools will get good at pointing out UX challenges and suggesting best practices.

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2024

We also explain: How product funnel differs from marketing and sales funnels. Product funnel is a wider concept, focusing on the whole customer journey, while marketing and sales funnels concentrate on its early stages. There are multiple product and marketing metrics to track at each stage of the funnel. Its different stages.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 11, 2020

And the next ones usually go as “Now we have a better understanding of the main features our product has to have” and “Now we know they don’t have this feature we want to add, so it will be our differentiating point”. Sadly, all of these are huge delusion. I’m not saying the feature comparison isn’t useful. It’s not enough to do it once.

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