Roman Pichler

JANUARY 8, 2019

For revenue-generating products, you should also investigate if the product is still effectively differentiated: Do users have a compelling reason to choose it over competitors’ offerings? Capture your decisions and document the new strategy for your product, for instance by creating a new, forward-looking Product Vision Board.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2018

The result is that differentiating yourself on product alone is harder than ever. When I joined Intercom, the first thing I did was to sit with the founders and try to understand the mission and vision of the product: Why did they create Intercom? But SaaS has changed that. To succeed, you need to reverse your marketing.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2019

But as they pick up steam, offering more products to multiple target markets, it’s easy for the message to get a little fuzzy. Imagine trying to maintain a unified message and overall brand vision across those time zones and organizations – it’s a big challenge for any marketer. As a company grows, the message gets fractured.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 13, 2021

A good product experience is the primary driver behind product differentiation and ultimately, lasting customer satisfaction (measured through CSAT and NPS ) and loyalty. You can do this through in-app surveys, one-to-one messages, targeted notes, and tracking real-time shifts in sentiment.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Vision: Vision Narrative. Most product managers realize that defining a compelling vision for their product is a core responsibility of their role. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Plus it’s an amazing way to differentiate against the competition. Businesses need to move to primarily delivering support through in-context messaging; that is, solving customer problems where and when they have them, whether that’s in your product, app, or on your website. Which grows loyalty….

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Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2017

Leadership skills enable you to effectively guide the development team and lead the stakeholders, create an inspiring vision , and reach sustainable agreements , to name just a few. Here are some of the questions it asks you: Do you know how to formulate an inspiring vision for a product? Test competing offerings.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 1, 2019

Whether it’s to stay competitive, differentiated, or solve for what they believe are their customers’ needs, some companies get locked into a cycle of feature FOMO – fear of missing out – that ends up stalling product innovation. Back to our messaging app example. The Downside of Feature FOMO.

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nulab

JANUARY 8, 2021

This is where a product vision statement comes in handy. A product vision is a roadmap. Product vision statements are important, and it’d be a huge mistake to set off on your journey without one. To help you get started, here’s everything you need to know about creating your first product vision statement.

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Userpilot

JULY 24, 2024

Start by defining product vision and mission to give clarity to your team and determine the right direction to move. Outline your unique value proposition (UVP) and come up with a differentiation strategy to help differentiate your product. Think of the vision as the long-term goal for your product.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

A well-defined product strategy contains four key elements – the product vision , target customers , goals , and product initiatives. Next, define a vision that communicates your product’s long-term goals and set SMART goals that align with your business objectives to help you measure progress.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Brand Value & Competitive Differentiation Every technology company touts the benefit of their platform and the seamless product integration, yet products are largely managed and marketed in silos. What most technology companies aren’t touting is business process integration and the value to the customer, the real point of differentiation.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 14, 2022

For an organization to follow through and turn that idea into a viable product, the team needs both a product vision and a product strategy. This article will discuss why the best products require both vision and strategy and their codependent nature. Product vision. The product vision itself isn’t achievable in the short term.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 11, 2023

When your differentiating value isn’t abundantly clear, the deal ends up with no decision or worse yet, a loss. Product marketing now has a differentiating message to fill the pipeline. That differentiation is demonstrable in the sales process and your win rates goes up.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 2, 2020

What is the mission, vision and strategy to solve the problem? I used the Mission/Vision/Strategy framework to analyze our work. The Vision illustrates an image of what that solution looks like in X years. There are different visions at different time intervals. What problem(s) are being solved?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It’s better to differentiate 1–3 different personas than one based on “average”. We also differentiate ourselves by pursuing a different set of delighters. Overall, you don’t build any prototype of the product, just messaging around the product. Their goal is to gauge market interests and test your messaging. Messaging?—?the

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 6, 2019

For instance, many teams build apps on Intercom so users can leverage their workflows and services within our live chat Messenger and messages. Liam: Very early on, we were definitely working with bigger companies with sizable data just because the problem’s more interesting, and that’s where we saw the opportunity and our vision.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 4, 2019

One of the biggest determining factors of a company’s success is the clarity of its message, and how that clarity comes across in every interaction across the product and brand. Obviously the first step to make all of this work is in defining a clear and differentiated value proposition that resonates with a segment of the market.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 24, 2021

Focus on identifying your target audience, communicating an authentic message that they want and need and project yourself as an “expert” within your niche” (Kim Garst, Marketing Thought Leader). Pain Relievers: Here we summarize how our solution addresses the user’s pain points, e.g., our differentiators 3. of Anything.

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BrainMates

MAY 26, 2025

This can help highlight potential whitespace or opportunities to differentiate. Use these insights to refine your roadmap, adjust messaging, or highlight competitive advantages. Let competitor insights sharpen your thinking, not narrow your vision. Ask yourself: What story is emerging? Are we ahead, on par, or lagging?

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Then, armed with these insights, you can create an empathetic, data-driven customer journey that helps your customers achieve their vision of success. I really recommend it, because the biggest differentiator we saw is that in a persona-driven world, you’re really thinking about that fictional character.

Customer Experience 34

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Product marketing receives all the WHO, WHAT & WHY content from product management to create and communicate value messages that fill the sales funnel with influencers and buyers that have a need worthy of engaging with you.

User Testing 130

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 14, 2019

As a buyer, you were probably greeted by a message along the lines of: “Interested in our product? Now we need to deliver something beyond product information and walkthroughs to add the kind of value that will differentiate us from our competitors. Deliver value to your buyers first, then sell your product.

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Userpilot

MARCH 18, 2022

Your product messaging should attract the right audience and help them see your product as the perfect solution to their problems. In this blog post, we will discuss how you can build your product messaging, five great product messaging examples, so you can better communicate your brand value and attract the right audience.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

How toApply: In Branding/Marketing: Reference cultural touchstones, popular nostalgia or personalized messages for specific audience segments. In Product Packaging: Integrate a hidden message or amusing detail that rewards closer inspection. A sense of cohesion keeps the experience joyous rather thanchaotic.

Banking 80

Banking Data Visualization Customer Experience Feedback Software 80

Product Management University

APRIL 12, 2018

Markets & Customer Goals – Learn how to understand your target customers as well or better than they understand themselves from the top down so that your product solutions, marketing messages and sales conversations are more relevant to the strategic goals of the customer.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

the Product Manager is a sheepdog…” As a sheepdog, a Product Manager is “right at the nexus of all other teams” where he or she “ leads in defining the product vision , establishing the operational plan to get there, and then executing on it ”. Therefore, Ben and Blair differentiate between customer and user problems.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Customer-Facing Vision & Strategy. If you have 20 products, that equates to 20 product visions and 20 product strategies. Create one customer-facing vision for the portfolio, something that’s strategic to every customer, and then create a tactical business goal for each product that supports the portfolio vision.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In the intricate world of product management, a compelling product vision isn’t just a “nice to have” – it’s a necessity. He introduced a vision – ‘an iPod, a phone, and an Internet communicator.’ ’ That vision changed the mobile industry forever. Shopify : “To make commerce better for everyone.”

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2022

So how to differentiate your restaurant from others? Thanks to the restaurant branding strategy, your business would be differentiated from competitors from customer views. Brand Identity : A brand identity ensures that delivered messages are suitable to your potential customers via marketing campaigns and other marketing channels.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In fact, the only differentiator you can use to stand out from competing parity products is price. To do that, you need to use different differentiators like better quality, superior customer support , better customization, or greater usability. Also, check how it fits into your product vision. Risk losing competitive advantage.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

The benefits of embedding a product service management role in your organization include improved differentiation thanks to ongoing incremental innovation. Userpilot can help product service managers collect user feedback, analyze user behavior data and improve communication via in-app messaging. Want to see how? Book the demo!

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Their responsibilities include product discovery, developing product vision, prioritization , roadmapping , analyzing product performance and its iterative development, and leading the product team. Let’s get right to it! TL;DR Product managers define the overall product direction and oversee the entire product lifecycle.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Marketing and sales messages will be stronger and differentiate more effectively because they’re communicated in context of more strategic business drivers versus product value propositions that rarely address anything beyond the tactical needs of users. Creating Your Product Vision: Two Parts Customer, One Part Product.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

A strategic product manager is responsible for developing long-term product vision and strategy. Product marketing managers develop product positioning , messaging , and differentiation strategies. Product manager responsibilities include: Defining the overall product vision and strategy. Product vision.

Research Software 105

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Is it different from product messaging? TL;DR Product communication is all the communication that helps users experience the product value , for example, in-app messages. TL;DR Product communication is all the communication that helps users experience the product value , for example, in-app messages. Ready to dive in?

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Product Management University

MAY 15, 2024

What I mean is, the emphasis is on explaining how the product works as opposed to giving users a vision of what their job will be like if they use your product. Your intimate knowledge of the buyer is ultimately what differentiates you. The problem with both of those demo formats is they’re more explanation than aspiration.

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