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Product-Led Growth Is a Misleading Name

The Product Coalition

The market, however, understood it differently. It’s a great model but the name is quite misleading. That’s why I named my strategic product-led growth course ‘Unboxing PLG’. With sales-led, which is also a bad name, the model means giving each customer exactly what they want and following the money. PLG under the hood.

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3 Ways To Educate the Market That Actually Work

The Product Coalition

Everyone knows educating the market is hard to nearly impossible, but people always bring up examples like Facebook or the iPhone whenever I discuss it in my lectures. So what can and cannot work when you want to educate the market? Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation, and rightfully so.

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How Product-Market Fit Really Works (Part 1)

The Product Coalition

If you are on the journey toward product-market fit, you know it’s not easy. When I studied coaching, one of the coaches who taught us was a guy named Ronnie. When I studied coaching, one of the coaches who taught us was a guy named Ronnie. product-market fit under the hood. Part of it is because it’s really hard.

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3 Ways To Educate the Market That Actually Work

The Product Coalition

Everyone knows educating the market is hard to nearly impossible, but people always bring up examples like Facebook or the iPhone whenever I discuss it in my lectures. So what can and cannot work when you want to educate the market? Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation.

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Spendesk’s Nicolas Marchais on evolving with your market

Intercom, Inc.

Creating a new product category also creates a plethora of challenges – from spotting the right market niche to convincing customers that yours is a service they need. Nico joined me on Inside Intercom this week, where we discussed everything from the three stages of company growth to how growing companies can address new markets.

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The Value Assessment Framework (Part 2)

The Product Coalition

So we are going to create a simple table (preferably in your favorite spreadsheet tool) with the following columns: Customer profile name Customer profile description Value definition Value delivery Value perception Now you can start filling the table, where each row represents a different customer profile.

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How to Wow a Customer and Win Their Loyalty [With Examples]

Userpilot

This trust and rapport can yield many benefits for your business whether it’s amazing stories shared on social media accounts, a positive review on your website, or word-of-mouth marketing that brings more people into your rewards program. Whenever you surprise customers, be on the lookout for upsell opportunities.