Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

So why are we still developing products no one wants? Product experts have tried to tackle this issue but they gloss over the impact a company’s structure and leadership team have on product/market fit. Who owns Product/Market fit – Marketing, Sales, or Business?

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Userpilot

JUNE 3, 2022

Trying to find the best product marketing resources for 2022? As the market gets more competitive, SaaS companies are increasingly relying on product-led marketing strategies to gain traction. Product marketing is the process of bringing a product to the market, promoting it, and selling it to customers.

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Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

AUGUST 15, 2022

There is a big problem with the term product market fit. Launching successful products requires a rare combination of market understanding, iterative development, and a lot of luck. You also need clear milestones to align your company with your innovation efforts and retain the support of leadership.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 4, 2022

Want to skip ahead and learn the most common product marketing manager interview questions and answers? Sneak Peak: - What is your favorite marketing campaign? Estimate the market size for a new product. If you have, you can thank an excellent Product Marketing Manager or PMM for their hard work.

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

revolutionized the direct transportation market. Laura Jones is head of product marketing at Uber and recently participated in an AMA on influencing the product roadmap via Sharebird , a place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. Collaborating with Product Management.

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

revolutionized the direct transportation market. Laura Jones is head of product marketing at Uber and recently participated in an AMA on influencing the product roadmap via Sharebird , a place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. Collaborating with Product Management.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 23, 2017

This sample product marketing job description just might ruffle a few feathers. First, it’s not your typical “get the product off the shelf” job description. Second, there may be people in product marketing roles that don’t meet the requirements. B2B Product Marketing Job Description.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How do product management and marketing teams work together to build successful products? TL;DR Product managers define the overall product direction and oversee the entire product lifecycle. Product marketing sits between product development and the market.

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Product Management University

JULY 10, 2020

Here’s how to create business requirements that boost your marketing and sales proficiency. First, remember that the reasons you build new products and features are the same exact reasons the market buys them. Identify a business goal that’s common to target customers across one or more market segments.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 25, 2022

Have you recently been invited to a product marketing manager interview? One of the best and first things you should do is review the most common product marketing interview questions and answers. Product marketing managers play a critical role in bringing new products to market.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 5, 2020

So, what’s the difference between a Product Manager (PM) and a Product Marketing Manager (PMM)? Both Product Managers and Product Marketing Managers often work very closely together and share project ownership, they generally have different sets of responsibilities that require different skill sets.

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 30, 2017

These words couldn’t be more relevant to product management. But how do you develop the confidence required to lead a team of stakeholders to a positive outcome? Such a trait is crucial to Product Management roles if you want sales, marketing and engineering to trust and follow your direction.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

To survive and succeed, your product leadership must be sharper than ever. I temporarily relocated there with 2 more developers from my company. You are probably thinking about developers — because that’s indeed the most expensive part of tech companies. But how would marketing and sales know what to work on?

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Userpilot

APRIL 25, 2022

What is product leadership and how is it different from product management ? In the article, we’ll be discussing what the product leadership role entails and how it is different from the product management role. Product leaders are responsible for building the right teams and organizational cultures.

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Userpilot

JULY 23, 2023

With the right go-to-market team, your new launches won’t suffer unnecessary delays and you can increase adoption but focusing on the right things. TL;DR A go-to-market strategy is a comprehensive plan for taking your product or service to target customers. What’s a go-to-market strategy?

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The role of Product Manager can be a catch-all for some organizations where it describes someone who works on a team with other PMs, takes lead on a product, or oversees an entire portfolio. Senior Product Manager A Senior Product Manager typically oversees a team of other PMs or supervises a major product within a portfolio.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Leadership without authority is product management 101. You must master it to succeed, in most cases with developers. But as a product executive, you must take it to the next level?—?and Last week’s learning session in the CPO Bootcamp was dedicated to product strategy. end-to-end, not just your part of it.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. This will allow them to take full ownership of and responsibility for their products, and it will increase their motivation, productivity, and job satisfaction.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Competitive analysis of current market offerings absolutely helps your SaaS company. Not only is tracking the competition daunting, it doesn’t ensure the product chiseled and shaped will be used by YOUR user base. Now let’s look at the three product-led growth go-to-market types for SaaS companies. Types of SaaS Growth.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. You blame the market, but often that’s just overlooking the real problem. You add features, you replace salespeople, but it doesn’t help.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

It helps that Sales and Marketing figured this out long ago. Who else can interpret strategy from Product, Marketing, and elsewhere into the CS team’s role? These other teams sometimes have the skills to be true thought partners and business consultants, taking that pressure off of CS leadership. Your VP of CS?

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 3, 2023

A lot of companies are pumping out demos of AI passing the bar exam or creating a marketing plan in 30 seconds. The marketing plan created in 30 seconds is not good enough to implement. Walmart tried a text-messaged-based commerce concierge service called Jet Black, which was an upscale product in select markets.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

You blame the market, but often that’s just overlooking the real problem. A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. Photo by Tomas Sobek on Unsplash Nobody likes tough market conditions, but it can also be an opportunity. It’s an opportunity for clarity.

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The Product Bistro

JANUARY 25, 2021

In the way back time, before Agile, before OKRs and other fads, product managers wrote MRDs, or Market Requirement Documents. This was the artifact the began the process of developing a new product, or a variant of a product. I waded in, relishing the reliving of how product management used to be done.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder).

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Mind the Product

MAY 5, 2020

In her opinion, there are marked differences in product management practice in AsiaPac and Europe. Today there are 45 product managers. I now look after 110 people, that’s across user research, design, product management and product marketing,” she says. We have a free product and a very good free product.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

We’ve collected some of the best product management webinars for 2024, so you don’t miss out. TL;DR A product webinar is a virtual seminar showcasing and discussing a product's features and benefits as a marketing and sales tool. You can use your findings and improve your in-app marketing with Userpilot.

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Product Management Unpacked

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

I’m excited to be named Product Executive in Residence (PXIR) at Carnegie Mellon University. This new PXIR role enables CMU to bring the voice of industry into classrooms and product leadership curricula. There is also the ubiquity of what’s often referred to as the “product problem.”

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 1, 2016

I'd put a bunch of aspects of product management into this category: prioritizing a roadmap, effective communication, formulating a vision, negotiating with stakeholders, and team leadership, to name a few. Today I wanted to dive into one such critical aspect of the art behind product management, which is developing user empathy.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 8, 2023

The journey of leadership is, in many ways, a journey toward embracing our incompleteness Recently, I stumbled upon an insightful article by HBR titled “I n Praise of the Incomplete Leader ” and found it strikingly relevant. At first, I leaned heavily on technical jargon, missing the mark with marketers.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

A four-layer framework to create a winning product strategy Today we are talking about creating product strategy. He is a strategic practitioner, having spent 20 years leading product, marketing, and business functions for large international corporations. 9:00] Who is responsible for developing product strategy?

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

This article assumes that you are familiar with the product vision board or the key elements of a product strategy : market, value proposition, standout features, and business goals. More Information : Market Segmentation Tips and Strategize , pp. Many Needs but No Compelling Reason for Using the Product.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

In my first official product role, which I got to after managing large dev teams and a business-related role, I managed alone a product with a development team of ~40 people. One of the first things I did, for example, was to work with the salespeople on how to sell the product.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. This will allow them to take full ownership of and responsibility for their products, and it will increase their motivation, productivity, and job satisfaction.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2023

However, provoking productive disagreements is a key leadership skill you want to master. Here is how fostering healthy debates is essential for effective leadership and better outcomes. If you see the connection between that skill and product leadership you are 100% right. We have so many of them regardless.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 21, 2022

What product managers need to know about launching products. Today we are talking about go-to-market planning and what is involved in planning the launch of products. He is a technology product leader who has led teams as founder, early hire, and executive at companies including Facebook, Craft.co, and KCG holdings.

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