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Product Management Marketing: A Guide for Building Successful Products

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Product management focuses on the overall strategic direction and champions the product inside the organization. Product marketing, on the other hand, promotes the product to the outside world. The product manager role is very complex. What are the responsibilities of a product marketing manager?

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Strategic Product Management: The Role of a Strategic Product Manager

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Product managers conduct primary and secondary market and customer research to find the target market and identify opportunities that existing products don’t satisfy. Goals are important aspects of the product strategy. They tell the product management team what they need to achieve.

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Product Idea Validation: 6 Steps for Ensuring Successful Products

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Product idea validation is essential to avoid spending too many resources on a product that fails because nobody needs it. First, you need to clearly define the product goals, the problems it solves, and its alignment with the organization’s business goals. What are the product goals?

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Feature Prioritization in Different Stages of Product Development

UX Studio: Product Management

There’s a good chance that the team might have already piled up market research reports, but they still have a lot of assumptions – you want signals that support your decision in a cost-effective way. How might we get closer to the market and the users, while we need to move fast and rely on internal prioritization?

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Product Failure: Why New SaaS Products Fail and How to Avoid it

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We talk about product failure when the product doesn’t meet its objectives or goals. SaaS companies often struggle to identify user problems worth solving, differentiate their products, and get the pricing right. Entering immature markets and devising a relatable product vision are also serious challenges.

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The Combined Effort of Product Management and Product Operations

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At the most basic level, product management figures out what to do, and product operations figures out how to do it. This differentiation permeates their collaborative relationship and is key to a successful ongoing alliance. Product managers own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the product(s) they manage.

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What is the Product Manager Career Path?

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Here is an excerpt from a Product Manager job description (found on SmartRecruiters) at Square for their Cash App division: Develop innovative, industry-leading features and products that uniquely serve Cash App’s customers – differentiating via design and creativity. Obsess over customers. Drive execution.