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Mental Models Applied: Using A 2×2 Chart For Handling Competitive Objections

The Secret PM Handbook

As an exercise for myself, I decided to take a mental model that’s usually used for decision making – a 2×2 matrix – and apply it to marketing. One thing we have to do in the go-to-market portion of our jobs is come up with good ways to talk about our product versus our competitors. Click To Tweet.

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How to Avoid Market Feedback Traps

Mind the Product

If you were to ask me whether you, as a product manager , should you always listen to market feedback? 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. My answer would be yes, definitely. Here’s why. Convenience Bias.

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Put your "MVP" on the box, before building what goes inside

Haines-Group

Here the acronym stands for: M essaging, V alue-proposition, and P ositioning Think of it as the “Marketing MVP” These “MVP” elements are foundational to strategy and absolutely critical to the product’s ultimate commercial success. You’ll Find the Marketing MVP on Every Box The essence of your Marketing MVP is right on the box.

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Startup Idea Exploration Workbook: 15+ Free Miro Templates To Navigate Exploring New Ideas

The Product Coalition

It consists of ’15+ free Miro exercises with reading materials that anyone can use to take their idea from zero to zero point one. No previous startup knowledge required.

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Decoding Business Growth: The Art and Science of Choosing the Right North Star Metric

The Product Coalition

All departments in the company, from engineering to marketing, should understand and be oriented towards optimizing this metric. Let’s consider another example: HealthTech — Virtual Exercise App Business Description: An app providing a range of virtual exercise classes, personal training sessions, and health tracking features.

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Common Product Vision Board Mistakes

Roman Pichler

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. A good vision exercises pull—it describes a future state that people want to bring about. More Information : Market Segmentation Tips and Strategize , pp.

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Sequencing the Solving of Problems

Tyner Blain

Going to Market You will develop a go-to-market (GTM) approach which includes multiple releases of your product. I’ll demonstrate with a facilitation exercise I ran for a leadership team where we shaped a product – in this case, a bespoke transformation services engagement.