The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2022

Bad Feedback Doesn’t Always Mean Your Product Is Bad Bad product feedback is a bummer. But contrary to what you might think, it doesn’t always mean your product is bad. Here is a quick guide to strategic thinking about product feedback. The feedback on all three talks was great.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The fact that your potential customers have a problem, doesn’t mean that they are willing to do what it takes to solve it. Each one ran a series of tests over a few hours, and told me I’m a good fit for the surgery. As a product leader, you must define not only the problem you are solving but also for whom.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

How many times have you heard the phrase “It’s research, it will be ready when it’s ready”? If you manage AI products, the answer is probably “many”. AI product management is a unique beast that can be quite challenging, but there are ways to make it easier. In algorithmic research, this is very prominent. Here’s how.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 13, 2022

Many startups feel that the only thing preventing them from selling their product is a great demo. Here’s how to use your product demo smartly, and avoid demo abuse. Your Customers Don’t Want Your Product Of course, eventually, they do. that you actually get to consider the product?—?the And that was the problem.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 27, 2021

Creating a solid product strategy is an ongoing process, not a one-time effort. Once you created a first draft that you are happy with, it’s time to bring it to the market and iterate according to the feedback you get. But how can you test a strategy? for example, if you are moving to a new market?—?you

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Photo by Maick Maciel on Unsplash Getting your product team to take full ownership often feels like an uphill battle. the VP of Product at a fast-growing scale-up, we tackled a challenge nearly every product leader faces: how to inspire their team to truly take ownership. In a recent session with H.,

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Defining the right product metrics is a common challenge for product leaders. the research articles, the important topics and revelations, and as you move towards the end, the articles become lighter: interviews with celebrities, lifestyle pieces, and so on. As I’m going through exciting changes in my business?—?opening

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

Everyone wants to be product-led these days. But does that mean that you are doing product-led growth? Here is a disambiguation guide to help you understand what product-led growth really means, and what it doesn’t. I knew what I really wanted to do, and the way I understood the term ‘product consulting’ described it quite well.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Spend an adequate amount of time researching the answers to the questions above. You need to research deep because what you see on the surface isn’t going to give you the answers. Pitfall #1: No Long Term Thinking The lean philosophy says you don’t really know what’s happening in the market until you meet the market.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The journey to product-market fit might seem random, but it actually has a well defined high-level structure. Here is part two of the guide that will help you find your way to product-market fit. This is an important principle in the product-market fit journey.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2022

I realized that this is something that I do whenever I’m helping my consulting customers or the CPO Bootcamp participants to make strategic decisions. about the market, the customers, the product, the business, the plans ahead? especially startups on their way to product-market fit, the ARR itself might not be important.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

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. If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves.

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Userpilot

MARCH 28, 2022

Content marketing vs product marketing? The goal of any marketing strategy is to attract and convert members of your target market into paying customers. But what is the difference between content and product marketing ? The advantages of both marketing strategies. Definitely not!

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 1 — Seed) A good product strategy is something every company needs. When VCs and customers aren’t throwing money at whatever you tell them, it becomes a critical tool. heard my explanation and immediately said — ‘oh, you are doing product strategy’.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 30, 2021

Your journey to product-led growth starts way before you actually launch the product, but it definitely doesn’t end there. Here are the things to keep in mind when your product meets the road. Photo by Pixabay from Pexels Product-led growth (PLG) is an exciting movement. Realistically, this is just the beginning.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Your product will always have bugs, and you will always need to chase and fix the important ones. But sometimes, the really important bugs are not showing in the product itself. These are bugs in your product strategy, and if not fixed, it will be very difficult for your product to succeed.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

Product management is certainly no exception. Product managers and leaders need to find ways to keep learning and growing in an ever-evolving product environment. There’s an abundance of books, podcasts, as well as events at your disposal that cover various product management topics.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The role of the product leader goes far beyond managing the product department. Here is your true responsibility as a product leader, so that it’s no longer a secret. Photo by JOSHUA COLEMAN on Unsplash Most of the CEOs I work with, understand that the role of the product leader is very important. It makes perfect sense.

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Userpilot

MAY 16, 2023

Getting paying customers for your SaaS business can be a challenging and complicated endeavor. However, the time-tested strategy of SaaS email marketing has proven to be a reliable method of driving product growth. Software companies need to use targeted emails instead of sending the same message to every user.

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Userpilot

JULY 16, 2024

Are you a SaaS product manager in search of product differentiation examples to inspire your differentiation strategy? In this article, we’ll explore the types of product differentiation strategies and go over cases of real-world brands that have used these strategies to drive product growth.

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Userpilot

MAY 19, 2021

SaaS marketers need to move fast and break things, but rather than jumping from one ‘shiny new growth hack’ to another, stick to a few tried and tested tactics first. SaaS Content Marketing. SEO Keyword Research. Product-led Growth. Influencer Marketing. What job do they need to get done with your product?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 18, 2020

A good product strategy helps you to acquire happy customers and retain them over time. Here is how product strategy helps you overcome them. Photo by Braden Collum on Unsplash Working on product strategy is an iterative process. If the baton falls somewhere in the process, they will not become a customer.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Ford’s famous quote tells you exactly how he wanted it done: “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants, so long as it is black”. In our world, this would have been considered a great product strategy. As you are reading this, replace Ford’s car with your own product. No product serves everyone.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You’re investing resources in hiring and training the right people, tracking different metrics at different stages, adding more and more complexity with each increase in headcount, use cases, and customers. Natasha Ratanshi-Stein is the founder of Surfboard , a software company that offers scheduling tooling for customer support teams.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Photo by Iain Kennedy on Unsplash When I was a product lead at Imperva, there was a feature that engineering kept telling me required a rewrite. We were monitoring our customers’ databases, and the architecture caused a severe performance impact on the databases themselves. Its entire architecture was bad.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2022

This little gardening exercise and the patience it required led me to think about the things in our daily work as product leaders that simply take time, and there is nothing we can do to speed up the process. The thing to remember is that the right product strategy is not a binary outcome that you either have or not.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 18, 2021

Where do big creative ideas come from, and how important is this skill for product leaders? Some takeaways for you from a product interview I had at Google many years ago. Photo by John Tekeridis from Pexels When I decided to move into product management I interviewed, among other companies, for a product management role at Google.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2020

How to Make Fewer Errors During Your Trial-And-Error Journey Reaching product-market fit requires a lot of trial-and-error, but it takes so much more to succeed. I decided to move into product management, and the rest is history. Everyone knows that reaching product-market fit requires a lot of trial-and-error.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 12, 2023

Hiring a product leader is never easy. Here are a few things to consider when you seek your next product leader. Photo by Mark Rabe on Unsplash When I started Infinify five years ago, I announced that I am offering product consulting services. That’s what the word ‘product’ meant to most of them.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Product leadership is about finding the right business opportunities to accomplish with the right product. I see my consulting customers having to make the exact same decisions. Last month, for example, I met a startup, which had a good indication from the market that their initial product direction was viable.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Word-of-mouth marketing is one of the most effective marketing strategies that product marketers can implement. A defined word-of-mouth marketing strategy helps you encourage and accelerate conversations within your customer base that grow your brand. What is word-of-mouth marketing?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2022

It brings the best practices of the greatest product companies out there to all of you, based on what I heard from Marty and the other SVPG partners during the workshop. Or perhaps that’s my own perspective because of the customers I’m working with. Marty listed three levels of coaching : Discovery coaching?—?primarily

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Her research and planning are so thorough, that she knows exactly which roads have sunsets you don’t want to miss and which activities happen only on the second Sunday of each third month, which happens to be precisely when she is there. Product development is such an uncertain world, both from the outside and from within.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

As a product leader, your role entails much more than leading the product itself. Photo by Pixabay I recently led a product-market fit workshop at a known company in the Israeli tech industry. Photo by Pixabay I recently led a product-market fit workshop at a known company in the Israeli tech industry.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 11, 2021

Can you tell us a little bit about the company and product, and where you’re focused? We have three distinct products: the ad-supported video streaming platform, which is what we started with four years ago; a subscription version of the business with ad-free content; and exclusive original content.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2021

The reason I am telling you that is that whenever I talk about the fact that your product needs to solve a problem (or serve a need) for your target customers, people bring up Facebook as a theoretical counterexample. While this might sound like a product issue, the root cause is typically at the problem level.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Despite what many product managers think, creativity is not only for the gifted. from Pixabay Many product managers tell me that “they simply don’t have it” when it comes to creativity, and especially regarding coming up with the next big thing. But he was also an engineer, scientist, researcher, and inventor. Here’s how.

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