Product Management University

OCTOBER 16, 2023

If we go back to post 3 of 10 , you’ll see the ripple effect of a customer-facing portfolio vision in full swing when it’s time to craft your portfolio (and product) positioning! This is what differentiates you more than anything. Build your portfolio and product positioning with that goal in mind and you’ll nail it every time.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In addition to functionality, you’re highlighting the fact that all your products reside on a common platform and the associated benefits that come with it. When your differentiating value isn’t abundantly clear, the deal ends up with no decision or worse yet, a loss. Product management has set everyone else up for success.

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Product Research Feedback Software Differentiation Management 130

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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Product Marketing Marketing Research Software User Testing 52

People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on establishing the organization’s Mission, North Star, and Vision. Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals. What is the vision for the future you want to create? What ground has been covered?

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Suddenly you could sell and market to millions of people, anywhere in the world. And with that explosion in addressable market came an explosion in customer service requests. Plus it’s an amazing way to differentiate against the competition. Then the internet came and changed that forever. Which grows loyalty….

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Research Software User Testing Customer Experience Vision 118

Product Management University

OCTOBER 23, 2023

It Starts With Product Management Product management consistently does discovery at a level that makes them more knowledgeable holistically on the markets and customers than all other disciplines.

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User Testing Onboarding KPIs Product Research Management 130

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 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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Userpilot

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Next, remember to keep your vision at the center of your product enhancements. Another helpful tactic to drive delight is to lean into differentiation : what do you do differently from the competition? Continue to test the strength of your product-market fit. Focusing on a competitive differentiator.

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User Testing Feedback Software Research Software Customer Experience 109

Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

They lack vision and lead nowhere. It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. Many companies lack differentiation strategies and drive product development by copying competitors. A roadmap example. It’s based on a different mechanism.

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Analytic Tools Feedback Software Product Research User Testing 101

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. What is product strategy?

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Innovatemap

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Product management and product marketing are becoming essential roles in the digital world we live in. Companies that don’t have strong product management and product marketing functions run the risk of losing market share to more strategically focused teams. Product Management (Focus on the User).

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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

The product management role is very complex. Product managers carry out market research, lead product discovery , oversee the development teams as they are working on the solutions, and coordinate the product launch. 16 Product Management Best Practices. develop product vision and strategy.

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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. Create your vision and positioning 4. Differentiated SaaS Growth. Make sense of your data 2.

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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. Product service management vs product management.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Carrying out product discovery involves answering the following questions: What is the specific value the product should create for the users and customers? Which market and market segment should the product address? What makes the product stand out? Let’s look at timeboxed product discovery first.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

When plotting out our product’s trajectory, there’s a constant tension between two competing mindsets. Where charismatic leaders rally the troops around an ambitious vision with a massive potential payoff. Meanwhile, the slow, steady drumbeat of cautious experimentation and incremental enhancements always makes the product better.

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Reporting Tools Feedback Software Product Research User Testing 98

Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

How marketing and product management work together. Turns out if you ask 50 different people what marketing is, you’ll hear 50 different answers. That is what our guest did to investigate what people think about marketing and how it fits into the work product managers do. 7:06] How do you describe marketing?

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User Testing Product Research Marketing Research Software 85

Userpilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Product planning focuses on product development while the go-to-market (GTM) planning concentrates on facilitating marketing and sales. Thanks to product planning and its focus on outcomes, teams are less likely to fall into build traps and more likely to deliver products that satisfy real user needs.

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Product Research User Testing Onboarding KPIs Research Software 98

Pragmatic Marketing

DECEMBER 3, 2019

has stayed on top of a rapidly evolving market by conducting research that delivers such products as the Game of Thrones Slots Casino , one of the drivers of the publicly traded company’s (Nasdaq ZNGA) third quarter, the best in its 12-year history. San Francisco-based Zynga Inc. ” Attribution.

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Pragmatic Marketing

DECEMBER 3, 2019

has stayed on top of a rapidly evolving market by conducting research that delivers such products as the Game of Thrones Slots Casino , one of the drivers of the publicly traded company’s (Nasdaq ZNGA) third quarter, the best in its 12-year history. San Francisco-based Zynga Inc. ” Attribution.

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Roadmap Data Visualization User Testing Product Research 91

Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2023

Product success is necessary both for the product manager and for the organization to grow. To build successful products, make sure to align the product strategy with the product vision. Continuous product discovery is necessary to keep up with the changes in user and market needs.

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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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User Testing Product Research Feedback Software Customer Feedback 96

Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2021

It helps your entire team rally around a vision and a set of outcomes, making sure everyone is aligned in reaching those product growth goals. What is a product strategy? How do you set a product vision? It helps you find product-market fit and gives your team direction. How do you create objectives?

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Product Research Onboarding KPIs Product Strategy User Testing 119

ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

Start with the product vision. To begin, an essentialist has a clear vision for the direction of the product. This product vision describes the overarching long-term mission of your product. Your vision statement should also answer the question of your product’s “why.”.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Sanj started working at Salesforce back in 2005, when the company had around 1,000 employees and a few hundred million in revenue, and he was a part of its growth for 14 years, holding several leadership positions in multiple markets in EMEA. Since leaving college, I knew I wanted to work in technology, in a sales or go-to-market position.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

If you’re a car enthusiast, go read the marketing copy for your dream car. The product marketers do a masterful job of getting you to envision exactly how awesome you’d look and feel behind the wheel of that car. Here’s one of the biggest problems in B2B, especially with technical products.

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Positioning Customer Experience Differentiation B2B 113

ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

When plotting out our product’s trajectory, there’s a constant tension between two competing mindsets. Where charismatic leaders rally the troops around an ambitious vision with a massive potential payoff. Meanwhile, the slow, steady drumbeat of cautious experimentation and incremental enhancements always makes the product better.

Reporting Tools 52

Reporting Tools Feedback Software Product Research User Testing 52

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

JULY 17, 2023

A well-structured product team requires a product leader – either a product manager or a product owner. In larger organizations, they may work side by side with QA engineers, product marketers , data analysts , or product ops managers. What is a product team responsible for?

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Analytic Tools Feedback Software Research Software Product Research 95

Mixpanel

APRIL 27, 2020

When you’re a startup and you’re looking for product-market fit, you need to be ruthless. You have to prioritize product differentiators that will give you a breakthrough ability to solve user problems that no one else can (or in a way no one else has thought of). Startup: Set ruthless priorities.

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User Testing Customer Feedback Differentiation Startups 89

Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 3, 2019

A product strategy , like any other plan, is subject to change. How changeable your strategy is, depends on your product’s life cycle stage. As long as your product hasn’t reached product-market fit, the strategy is usually volatile. Competition : Are your competitors launching new products or features?

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

We are rapidly approaching a company size where not all strategy can originate with the founder; we need to diversify markets, enter new markets, and have at least points-of-view on emerging markets and how we will address them. This framework covers five major questions: What do we aspire to be? Where do we play? How do we win?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

And yet, useful improvements do not always add up to the desired results , especially when growth is a problem and the market is saturated with similar solutions. In this article, I talk about spotlight vision, when and how to switch focus, and provide six research ideas to consider when ready to broaden the view.

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User Testing Customer Feedback Vision Customer Experience 132

Mixpanel

APRIL 27, 2020

When you’re a startup and you’re looking for product-market fit, you need to be ruthless. You have to prioritize product differentiators that will give you a breakthrough ability to solve user problems that no one else can (or in a way no one else has thought of). Startup: Set ruthless priorities.

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User Testing Customer Feedback Differentiation Startups 59

Userpilot

JANUARY 21, 2021

Product Owners are the ones creating the tasks, stories, managing scrum/agile, doing the daily standups…etc, while PMs are spending their time with the initial research, user interviews, collecting user feedback and data. The differentiating aspect of a Product Owner from a Product Manager is a Scrum team.

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