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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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

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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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2021

Product strategy is one of the most important tasks of the product leader, and definitely one of the hardest things to do. This should be your first step into product strategy. Since product strategy is so hard, many companies simply skip it. Even higher-level goals can be refined and detailed.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 4, 2021

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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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2021

Educating the market is hard enough as is, but there is one thing without which you cannot succeed. You Cannot Educate the Market if the Need Isn’t There Last week I talked about ways to educate the market , ones that can actually work despite the fact that educating the market is hard and usually not recommended.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels When I started Infinify, I told the world I am shifting to product consulting. I knew what I really wanted to do, and the way I understood the term ‘product consulting’ described it quite well. The market, however, understood it differently. That’s the whole reason VCs invest in startups.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2023

If you have mediocre marketing and sales people, it wouldn’t work. If you have good marketing and sales people, they will be able to sell the product to some extent based on their network and talent. It’s much more than a UX exercise, it ties directly into your product strategy.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2022

For some reason, most of them want my product strategy and product-market fit lectures during May and June, every year. I gave my talk on “The Journey to Product-Market Fit” three times within a two week timeframe. That’s why the product strategy is so important?—?it

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 16, 2020

SplitShire-London-Collection-210062 When I work with companies on sharpening the value proposition and refining the product strategy, one of our information sources for the process is their existing customers. Who they are, why they chose to work with the company, what value they are getting out of the product, etc.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Photo by Pixabay I recently led a product-market fit workshop at a known company in the Israeli tech industry. It is a well-established company, a leader in its domain, but it still needs to deliver new products to the market so product-market fit is a very relevant topic.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

But as a product executive, you must take it to the next level — and this time use it with the entire management team. Image by Denis Doukhan from Pixabay In the CPO Bootcamp we talk a lot about product strategy. One of the things I say about it is that strategy starts with the goals.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Alternatively, if for a specific profile none of the categories works well, it could mean that this profile isn’t fitting you or that you might be earlier in your product-market fit journey than you might have thought. If you have a product marketing manager, this is a good opportunity to involve them.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2021

Strategic product thinking is hard. Especially when done as an afterthought - when the product is already in the market?—?it I created a model called “The Product Circuit”, which I have since used in product strategy processes with dozens of companies and in my lectures when I explain the journey to product-market fit.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2023

Much of the learning is about the market and the needs you all have. It happens through applying strategic product discovery processes (the same ones I advise my clients to use) and constantly listening to the market. They could be market changes — now is a great time to offer AI-related training services, for example.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2022

Creating a Solid Product Strategy One of the CEOs that I work with as part of my consulting services recently reflected with me on the process we went through for creating their new product strategy. It was a lengthy process, with quite a few trials and errors, until we found the right strategy.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Strategy and Focus It almost doesn’t matter what drove a company to work with me originally, at some point we get to strategy. Strategy is so hard to craft and too often overlooked. This is especially true with product strategy, which is still an artifact that most CEOs haven’t seen a great one in action before.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

The product was still young but already well-defined and deployed on customers’ networks. I did a lot of work there on improving the product and making it more suitable for the market, easier to sell and deploy, and contributed directly to the product’s success and business growth throughout my time there.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

The course covers basics like assessing target opportunities, building software products, and how to launch a great product. The Product Leader Certificate requires a little more PM experience and demands competence in DevOps, data analytics, and hard technical skills. product manager, product owner, product marketing, etc.)

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Truly defining the product includes many other things, like which problem it solves, for whom, the value proposition and why it makes sense business-wise ?—?considering considering all relevant points of view including the customers, the market, and the company itself. It is much closer to the company strategy in how broad it is.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

You need to have a product strategy. As I said in the past, a product strategy has to make sense to you before you invest anyone else’s work in it. A great product — unlike many promises you might have heard — wouldn’t sell itself. But how would marketing and sales know what to work on?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With everything you have to do every day, it is so easy to neglect strategy. But much like code, your product strategy also requires maintenance. So they do all sorts of validations and deep analysis processes: market research, business plan, competitive analysis, and so on. Note: not all the gaps are product gaps.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 12, 2023

We help them with their product strategy as well as building a strong product organization. That, of course, includes helping them hire the right people, and specifically the right product leader. Send this to your CEO friends so that they know how to hire the right person the right way.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Eventually, he managed the entire product from the execution standpoint, while I focused on the strategy and long-term planning. Little did I know that creating a solid product strategy takes such a major chunk of the product leader’s time. Most companies hire a product manager (and other positions) too late.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Do we want it to come from a specific product or market segment? Company-level goals are typically set by management, and as a product leader, it’s your job to help management clarify these goals further. If you follow the product-market fit example from above, it is clear that you need to focus on retention.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ” — an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.infinify.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on February 16, 2023.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 19, 2022

As product managers who are constantly in meetings and get questions from all around, this is critical. One of my best tips for doing deep product work used to be to work from home. It was a countermeasure to the popular symptom of product managers doing their real work?—?market Working on the product strategy” is way too vague.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

Our free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ” — an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.infinify.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on July 12, 2023.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2021

Photo by Ono Kosuki from Pexels OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) are a useful tool for goal setting and team alignment, and in recent years they have gone from being used primarily in quantitative parts of the organization (namely sales and marketing) to being very popular in product and technology as well. That’s easy.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Being a product-led company is a business decision that is manifested first and foremost through the organizational culture. Product-led growth, on the other hand, is a specific growth model in which the product actually serves as the sales and marketing tool for its own growth. But can you afford not to?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 28, 2024

Our free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ” — an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.infinify.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on January 23, 2024. Stay tuned.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2022

It’s much more important to say that we are trying to establish initial signals of product-market fit than to say that we need a certain ARR value. Product development is such an uncertain world, both from the outside and from within. You keep learning new things about the market, and delivery always takes longer than planned.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

When you consider the ideal customer profile, you need to get yourself into your customers’ world and deeply understand what they need to go through before they are ready to buy your product. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an Make yourself an expert in this area as well.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

an from Pexels My marketing manager recently asked me to define our marketing budget for 2021 so that she can plan accordingly. Tie It to Results, Not Resources With my marketing budget, it was hard for me to make a decision since I couldn’t tie the investment I would be making to clear and coherent results. Photo by Vlad Che?an

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

All of that, while you still haven’t really landed in your chair yet, and perhaps don’t even know enough about the product or the market to say anything meaningful. When your explanations about how crafting a good strategy takes time don’t work, you know it’s time to do something else.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Here are some examples of strategies that I have seen CEOs set: We currently sell services, however, this is not scalable. Customers in the specific market segment we are operating in are unhappy with the products our competitors offer. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 13, 2023

Our free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ” — an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.infinify.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on August 9, 2023. Oh, and you’ll also enjoy the ride.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2020

You can find detailed guidance for this in the first part of my e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit “. But if I had to pick one quick method, that is relevant for any product at any stage, it would be to ask yourself why people are using your product, over and over again. Make yourself an octopus.

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