Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 6, 2015

The customer development and lean startup methodologies evangelized by Steve Blank and Eric Ries brought us a better approach that favored experimentation over elaborate planning, customer feedback over intuition, and iterative design over traditional “big design up front” development. Target Audience. Problem You're Solving.

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BrainMates

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Having spent several years playing both Marketing and Product Management roles, I can confidently suggest that every Product Manager who wants to make a significant impact on the overall success of the business should switch to Product Marketing roles several times in his career. It happened with me too.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Gathering meaningful insight from your customers is a challenge for any product manager: what you need is a handy user persona survey template to help you capture it… We’re here to help! In this article, we’re going to explore how user personas can help you gather and utilize customer insight more effectively.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In today’s PLG-driven world, SaaS companies must deliver seamless customer experiences to survive and thrive. Customer journey optimization has emerged as a strategic imperative for companies seeking to boost customer satisfaction, retention, and lifetime value. Register here for FREE!

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 16, 2022

A minimum delightful product is a variation of the minimum viable product (MVP) (popularized by Eric Ries in his book, ‘The Lean Startup’ ). But rather than focusing on optimizing for speed, the set of features is optimized for customer delight. Then map out their pain points and figure out how to address them.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The outcome-based roadmap focuses on delivering value to customers instead of obsessing about building specific features. It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. As companies scale, they often cannot satisfy customer needs equally well.

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

TL;DR Product idea validation is a process during which product teams test and tweak the product concept to ensure it satisfies a real market need. Apart from testing the demand for the product, idea validation helps teams assess if they have the necessary expertise and resources to build the product.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2022

From a marketing standpoint, it first seems like a negative persona shouldn’t be a major worry. Sure, every product marketer appreciates the importance of knowing their ideal buyer personas to help cultivate the right leads. But what about the customer on the opposite end? Why are user personas important?

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Pragmatic Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

When awash with data and metrics, it’s easy for a product marketer to overlook precision in using the language of messaging. It originally appeared on Sharebird — the place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. See below.). “We need to simplify the message, so it’s memorable.

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Pragmatic Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

When awash with data and metrics, it’s easy for a product marketer to overlook precision in using the language of messaging. It originally appeared on Sharebird — the place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. See below.). “We need to simplify the message, so it’s memorable.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Because it’s the key to a better pricing strategy, competitive advantage, and customer experience. In this article, we cover: How to define product value and a value-added product. How to measure product value. 10 ways to add value to products in SaaS. Improve customer service to boost overall product value.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We talk about product parity or brand parity when a brand’s product offers exactly the same functionality as competing products. Product parity should be avoided because such products are unlikely to disrupt the market and never command premium pricing. Also, check how it fits into your product vision.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

From a Product Management and Strategy viewpoint, I believe internalizing this fear of failure drives some of the best outcomes for the organization and its customers. I will also do away with the notion of a “Product.” Markets need solutions. The Economics of a product is relative in that sense.

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

Tracking your customer churn rate will help you keep tabs on business growth. This article shows you various ways to calculate churn, make sense of the data, and create proactive solutions to retain more customers. Types of churn rates you should calculate: customer churn rate, revenue churn rate , and involuntary churn rate.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 3, 2023

Sales demos are one of the easiest ways to boost your credibility with prospects and customers. A good sales demo creates that critical moment of differentiation that makes your product the obvious choice in a sea of competitors. Research Your Target Customer. Learn as much as you can about your prospective customer.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Product service management is a marketing function whose objective is to keep track of customer and market need fluctuations and inform product development. In smaller companies, product service management responsibilities are covered by product managers.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 5, 2023

TL;DR The CAC payback period measures the time it takes for a company to recover the money invested in new customer acquisition. This metric helps SaaS companies choose the most effective customer acquisition channels , diagnose inefficiencies in customer retention strategies , and inform pricing decisions. What is CAC payback?

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Userpilot

MARCH 18, 2022

It is how businesses let their target audience know who they are and what they can do and it refers to the words on your site, landing pages, as well as other marketing messages. Having a product messaging framework is important because it sets the precedence for how the market and your potential customers will see your brand.

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Userpilot

APRIL 29, 2024

How can you use them for better customer engagement ? TL;DR Segmentation is a process of grouping customers by shared characteristics. For example, age or product usage patterns. A segmentation survey is used to gather the data necessary to segment customers. A market segmentation survey is a market research tool.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 10, 2024

Subscribe now What is product sense At a high level, product sense is understanding what makes for a high-quality product for your customers (empathy) and having strong, validated opinions about what solutions will be successful (creativity). How do you identify and interpret key data points to achieve product-market fit?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Strategic Product Management Activities and Tips. 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. Conduct market research.

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Userpilot

JULY 24, 2023

Every new product launch is equal parts intimidating and exciting. As the market becomes increasingly saturated with similar SaaS products, your product launch can easily get lost in the noise. In this article, we take a deep dive into the technicalities of a product launch. Launch your product.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

As a product-first company, new product launches are a core part of Intercom’s DNA – which means there’s always an abundance of juicy launches for us product marketers to work on. Our go-to-market teams have grown immensely, meaning more specialists and larger cross-collaborative teams for each launch.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

There are marketing emails to assemble. In the Mad Men world of marketing, a huge launch day could be vital in building hype. But now, a great product launch is all about the bigger picture. In this context, your product launch strategy isn’t just a plan for launch execution. Or is it to delight existing customers?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

Without validating features, it’s easy to create products that aren’t aligned with their vision or are difficult to differentiate. Developing features without validation results in bloated products and unnecessarily drives the cost of development up. Product teams should invest in validation when developing the MVP.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 21, 2022

What product management best practices can help you build valuable and delightful products for your customers? Whether you’re an aspiring product manager or an already established product professional, our list will help you reflect on your processes and hopefully improve them. Check out our list!

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

How to prepare for a user interview, all the way to sharing the results with your team. The skill of running effective user interviews is key to defining your target users, finding product-market fit , growing your product, figuring out what to build next — or just simply understanding how users perceive your product.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Product planning focuses on the customer and business outcomes that the product should achieve. It should not be confused with project planning, product strategy development , or product discovery. Product planning improves the alignment of teams and internal stakeholders with the product vision.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

TL;DR A product team structure describes how the business organizes experts from different roles and functions to deliver successful products. The responsibilities of product teams include facilitating product discovery , launches and releases , customer onboarding , feature adoption, and account expansion.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2023

Continuous product discovery is necessary to keep up with the changes in user and market needs. PMs of successful products build features in response to user needs. Understanding user needs is necessary to avoid falling into build traps. Want to see how Userpilot helps PMs build successful products?

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

Yet the customer experience continually improves while KPI targets come into view. Alternatively, how can we let our current customers suffer and miss out on easy wins just to chase after something that might not even work and won’t generate meaningful revenue for years? So you want to make those chances count.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

TL;DR A product launch is a three-step plan (pre-launch, launch, and post-launch) to successfully bring a new product to market. There are different types of product launches. It involves market research, goal setting, and the development of your go-to-market strategy.

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Antwak Blog

JANUARY 29, 2021

Be a Marketeer – Use frameworks to gauge the perfect product-market fit. Be an Architect and an Interior Designer – Build and design products that address consumer pain-points effectively and transpires into a practical and scalable solution. Leading with influence but without enforcement.

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Userpilot

MARCH 27, 2023

TL;DR Product analytics is the process of collecting and analyzing usage data to get an objective and unbiased picture of user behavior in-app. Marketing analytics focuses on tracking the performance of marketing campaigns, while product analytics is interested in product engagement and user behavior inside the product.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Product launch checklists help align the efforts of all team members, enhance quality assurance, help mitigate risks, enable the evaluation of the launch, and help you deliver a better customer experience. Brainstorm ideas on how to solve customer problems in an innovative way and validate them.

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 6, 2020

If all users of your audience were exactly alike, your customer lifecycle and tech stack would be simple: . You’d only need one marketing channel to find your users. In doing so, you’ll be able to unlock other hidden user personas that you hadn’t accounted for previously. What is the Customer Lifecycle?

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

When I started working as a product manager, I understood that identifying and defining the problem is a crucial first step before even thinking about solving it. After every discussion with customers, sales, service, leadership and my colleagues, I was left with a laundry list of problems that needed my attention.

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