Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For product strategy and roadmap meetings, I recommend involving the key stakeholders , for example, someone from sales, marketing, support, and finance, as well as development team representatives—ideally members who know about the user experience (UX), architecture, and technologies. 4 Prepare an Agenda. State objective and agenda.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 13, 2021

Bad product experiences increase customer frustration, potentially creating resentment around having difficulty completing tasks within an application and increasing customer churn. Beforehand, make sure your team is aligned on: Their definition of product experience. The metrics you’ll use to measure success.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 27, 2016

It wasn’t too long ago that designers and developers were disciples of strictly separate crafts – but today, someone who can do both well is quickly labelled a “unicorn”, and sought after by many a unicorn-thirsty start-up. To quote Adaptive Path co-founder Peter Merholz from this blog: “The experience is the product.”.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

It’s also essential to creating a team where great people want to work. In a perfect product development world, communications are seamless, specifications are clear, and product and engineering teams work together without friction. These are team goals that get shared across the company. Share Leadership and Credit.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This is only natural: Through years of bad habits, many of us have shown engineers that we only value them for the code they can write. Ellen is the Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs , a B2B company that offers voice communication to teams in industries like hospitality, retail, transportation, logistics, and security.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

As the head of our Support Ops team, I work daily with my teammates to develop automated solutions that don’t frustrate customers, but empower them. They can also route customer conversations to the team best equipped to handle their questions and can even provide answers to simple customer questions like, “How can I add more users?”.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In our discussions, we talk about all the usual things: their ultimate career aspirations; their understanding of their own strengths and weaknesses and the skill gaps they hope to fill; as well as the specifics of each role they are considering, including scope, responsibilities, title & compensation, and manager. Data-Driven.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. Discovery is a team sport. I did classic web development before there were frameworks back in the ’90s. I hate definition wars.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

. – Tweet This The product team at Botify knows this all too well. While Chief Product Officer Christophe Frenet initially guided this transition, many members of the team stepped in to facilitate this process. However, Claire adds it wasn’t all bad. Along the way, they’ve given a lot of thought to this process.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 4, 2019

One of the biggest determining factors of a company’s success is the clarity of its message, and how that clarity comes across in every interaction across the product and brand. 1 Poor definition of value proposition and feature focus. I see three main recurring patterns when looking at companies who struggle to get it right. #1

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Userpilot

JULY 22, 2024

Let’s explore the steps to develop a solid positioning statement and some examples of successful brand positioning from other companies. TL;DR Developing a solid product positioning strategy involves several key steps. Here are the steps to develop your positioning effectively: Conduct thorough market research.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 12, 2019

A little over a year ago, I got the opportunity to start a new team within our sales organization – a team of Relationship Managers dedicated to growing our current customers at scale. To do the first, we had to hire, train, and write a playbook – the building blocks of any team. Relentlessly measure impact.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

As we look at what it takes to develop non-gaming VR products, their separation from gaming becomes very important. Developing business products in VR, however, is like creating a new sport by combining American Football and what the rest of the world calls Football. So what does all of this mean for product development?

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

From this article, you will find out how to develop a strong growth marketing strategy and learn growth marketing tactics for different customer journey stages. Market development targets new markets with existing products, while product development – existing markets with new products. If so, we’ve got you covered.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. Uses and definition of different kinds of segmentation. One way to do it, is to find ways to help other customer-facing teams (like Sales and Support) do their job.

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Developing and launching a product only to have it fail is the complete antithesis of the “Fail Fast” innovation motto. You have just invested 1000s of work hours and millions of dollars in developing & launching this product. If PM 101 is problem before solution, this is definitely 102 – “ who will pay and why ?”

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? Moving forward in your career, avoid the trap of doing work that feels high-impact, but it’s actually not , or work that makes you look good at the expense of the project and the team. How do people move into staff engineering roles?

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. This has created large amounts of data for running teams. . I think that’s message-market fit. Mark Roberge knows which he prefers. Mark couldn’t disagree more: . “I But how fast should companies hire?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

The low bounce rate directly indicates how important is the problem you are trying to solve and how great your product messaging is. Typically, if your bounce rate is above 60%, then your product definitely has some issues. Users can bounce because of multiple reasons such as poor design or poor content and/or product messaging.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2019

That’s why we built Product Tours to assist with the job of user onboarding within your product, alongside our best-in-class in-app messaging and knowledge base products. First, a quick definition. A poor onboarding experience can lead to refunds or cancellations that you can’t afford. Here’s the proof.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 1, 2024

Product marketing focuses on getting products into the hands of the right users, whereas product management focuses on developing the product. You’ll also need to outline your product’s positioning and messaging, decide on a pricing strategy , and create a comprehensive go-to-market strategy.

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Folding Burritos

JANUARY 21, 2016

We’re part of a larger team and that means interacting with a broader group of people with direct or indirect interest in the product: our stakeholders. Going back to the reasons leading stakeholders to behave like this, it’s easy to see how they reflect poor alignment on both the vertical and horizontal dimensions.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Writing a clear, timely, and empathetic message to your customers is a very sought-after craft. Fortunately, it’s not as elusive as you might think, and it can definitely be taught — writing coach Leslie O’Flahavan has spent over two decades doing just so. Say it like you mean it. Liam: Is there one that really gets to you?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

We surveyed and interviewed key people in our teams to understand how they worked and how they saw Intercom’s internal operations. Honest feedback can be hard to take, but it’s essential to develop the type of culture that encourages people to constructively criticize processes, leadership styles, or approaches. Paul: Yeah.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 13, 2018

Of all the ways to get your message into the world, staging events might not seem like the most efficient or scalable. It’s something you definitely don’t get with paid advertising either. Definitely not. A bad version of this opportunity is spending half of your annual marketing budget on sponsoring a conference closing party.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2021

Personally, I think being open in realising when a feature has taken a toll is an art and unfortunately few teams depict the benefits behind it. Are you also one of the product teams where 80% of your roadmap or sprint is a stakeholder wishlist? Team member idea This one is a tricky one and I will explain why.

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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. “How do you make sense of and identify the trends in the many conversations your team is having with your customers?” What does success look like?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 13, 2020

Even though we recorded it before concerns of COVID-19 dominated the news, it’s a message you need to hear now. It’s not a guarantee, but quitting is definitely the end of your dream. I made it onto an NCAA Division 1 soccer team, but a few weeks later the coach told me that I was a threat to my own team.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

And as the organization grows, the work involved to get teams aligned on who you’re selling to and how you’re selling is not something to be taken for granted either. Ambient Strategy founder and CEO April Dunford on the symptoms of weak positioning. When you’re a small team, your time is everything. Speed is everything.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 5, 2018

Our chat covers how gaming principles influenced her growth experiments, her team’s most successful retention tactics, and much more. Adam: How was the transition from classic marketing to working more with designers and engineers on the growth team? What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the interview.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Many organizations create customer success teams but there’s no clear definition as to how these teams develop long-term value for both the customer and the business. Some sales teams consider a customer success manager as the post-sale counterpart of an account executive. The role of customer success teams.

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Lenny Rachitsky

AUGUST 20, 2024

how AI is getting closer to replacing PMs , which parts of the job are most likely to be impacted ), so I wanted to take this week to share an important message: I believe that product managers are the best -positioned role in tech to thrive in a world of AI. In fact, many jobs will start to look more like product management. Read more

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2018

Could we somehow get them to definitely sign up? We developed all these tips and tricks that would help us optimize what happens when they land. We realized early that you can have all the tactics in the world but if they hit your homepage and your homepage is bad, it’ll go to s**t. Then you get them to your website.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2024

If there is one thing thats altering the way we create user experience (UX) designs and conduct research in 2024, it is definitely artificial intelligence (AI). Machine Learning (ML) is at the forefront, allowing UX teams to analyze vast amounts of user data to identify trends and predict behavior. No one can denythat.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

With so many moving parts in the creation process, from visual design to content or front-end development, what’s the one universal model all of these can apply to ensure the interaction in the end is more human and humane than machine-like? Because I think it’s a wider definition. I needed a little break after that.

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UX Studio

MAY 15, 2018

By definition, design handoff takes place when the finished design has reached the stage for the developers to implement it. Let’s look at the basics and some suggestions to get the best out of the designer-developer collaboration. Illustration from Intercom’s article about the values of designer-developer collab.

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