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The Secret Product Management Framework

The Secret PM Handbook

In this post, I share a simple model or framework to answer this question. The first box in the Secret Product Management Framework. Product” involves things like: Requirements or user stories or features. Our products solve problems for users. A consumer product like the Swiffer solves a problem – dirty floors.

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The Secret Product Management Framework

The Secret PM Handbook

In this post, I share a simple model or framework to answer this question. The first box in the Secret Product Management Framework. Product” involves things like: Requirements or user stories or features. Our products solve problems for users. A consumer product like the Swiffer solves a problem – dirty floors.

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3 Proven Ways To Help Your Sales Team Beat Quota

The Secret PM Handbook

To start with, let’s go into the situation with a framework for future success. We’ll start with some assumptions: Let’s assume your product solves a significant problem, better than alternatives, for a particular segment, and you have some successful customers. Follow the rules.

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Mental Models for Product Managers – Part 2

The Secret PM Handbook

Why my product is a better choice for you (the differentiators). This is the classic framework from Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm. It gives you a structure for your thinking and research. Of course they are used throughout our domain – a user story is a very simple template, a Jira issue is created using a template.

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Selection Criteria for Product Management Tools

The Secret PM Handbook

I deal with: Customers – finding their problems and listening to their product feedback. Go to market – how my potential customers hear about my solution, its value to them, and why they should buy my solution instead of our competitor, or instead of doing nothing. We do a lot of market research.

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5 customer acquisition strategies for winning new customers

Intercom, Inc.

You can spend months working on a great idea, pour tons of time and energy into crafting the perfect marketing, but without customers your business will cease to exist. All future growth hinges on one thing – customer acquisition. Get your free copy of The Growth Handbook, brought to you by Intercom. Want more advice like this?

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People & Company’s Bailey Richardson on how to find your people

Intercom, Inc.

As one of the first 10 employees at Instagram, Bailey was wowed by the generosity and kindness that led early users to from Instameets around shared interests and hobbies. To form a successful community, a company must be willing to collaborate, trust and empower its users and customers. Get to know your biggest fans.