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. Here is how a product strategy can help you create business results, even when the market is not in your favor. Product strategy is such a vague term for most people.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

helping the company transition from a founder-led product approach to building a strong, sustainable product culture. I have been helping her reshape how product management is perceived in the company by building a solid product strategy, team structure, roadmap, processes, and more.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. You blame the market, but often that’s just overlooking the real problem. You add features, you replace salespeople, but it doesn’t help.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. You blame the market, but often that’s just overlooking the real problem. Photo by Tomas Sobek on Unsplash Nobody likes crises.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 12, 2020

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. Sales need to be able to connect the specific need of that target audience to the actual product, which in turn needs to deliver on the value originally promised by marketing.

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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

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

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. in detail?—?which

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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? My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2022

especially startups on their way to product-market fit, the ARR itself might not be important. This is part of the definition of strategy?—?it’s Strategy is hard. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an It sounds scary, but for some companies?—?especially

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Photo by Steven Lelham on Unsplash “I am in a new product lead role and I am stopping a launch because there is no strategy. I’m having to manage upwards to get the support to take the team on the journey towards accelerated product strategizing but I am creating enemies. The team resents me and senior leadership supports me.

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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 They needed something else.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

When it comes to the product leader (in early-stage startups it is often even the same person as the hands-on product manager), they still see the importance of the role in the orchestration of the product execution. Product Definition Itself Is Not Strategy So why do the CEOs say it is an important, strategic role?

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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. At this point, the importance of the process is very clear.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 4, 2021

at the product level, the solution level, or the problem level (that is, you are tackling a problem almost no-one else does). Each level requires a different marketing strategy. While the marketing strategy is typically not for you as a product leader to define, the unique value proposition definitely is.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

It took me time to understand that I need to present myself as a product leadership coach and product strategy expert rather than a consultant. One other misunderstanding that was much harder for me to explain was related to how people understood the word ‘product’ in what I do. If you are only beginning, it’s clear why.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The product strategy plays a critical role here. The definition of a product strategy is not the strategy of the product department. It’s a strategy that explains how the company is going to succeed based on the product. Are you ready to make the shift?

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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

JUNE 9, 2023

Let’s get right to it: what are those things you can educate the market on, and where are you setting yourself to failure? The answer to this question is based on the “Product Circuit” model that I use to help companies get to product-market fit and presented here a while ago.

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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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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

They’re also critical to the success of product management, product marketing and sales. While those mid and senior-level managers are usually in the know about some aspects of the customer’s strategy, they may not have the full perspective beyond their area of responsibility. Kudos if you’re already there.

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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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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

The Product Leader Certificate requires a little more PM experience and demands competence in DevOps, data analytics, and hard technical skills. Key takeaways include product strategy , user research, and the UX/UI design process. It explores product leadership fundamentals and managing growth, among other takeaways.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 10, 2024

While it’s true generally as an approach to life (in psychology it’s called an internal locus of control), today I want to talk about its implication when you create your strategy. Strategy Is a Choice It is very tempting to approach strategy as if there is a right answer that we only need to find. But strategy isn’t as simple.

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Userpilot

MAY 16, 2023

However, the time-tested strategy of SaaS email marketing has proven to be a reliable method of driving product growth. In this guide, we’ll go over the reasons why email marketing is important and showcase 12 SaaS email marketing strategies that you can use for your own email marketing campaigns.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2023

If you have great marketing and sales people, they will come to you and ask deep questions about the customer profile and the value that you are expecting to deliver to these customers. They will then build their entire strategy according to your answers so that all the departments work together to generate success.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2021

But when it comes to work, and especially strategy related decisions, let me be very clear: FOMO is not a good reason to pivot. You need to create your vision and define your strategy accordingly?—?simply My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an It’s very natural to be confused. You should.

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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. I’ll start with the former.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The Solutions Value Chain: It’s Not Just For Product Management The Solutions Value Chain is a powerful framework, and it’s not limited to just product management. It can make a big difference for product marketing, sales & pre-sales, and customer success. Here’s how each team can leverage it to deliver more value.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If you are the new product leader of your company, your company might be in product leadership debt. In such situations, you would typically be asked to come up with a strategy and roadmap ASAP, but you are still just learning the domain. Typically, the CEO will ask for a strategy or a roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2021

When I first started teaching product management (at IDC’s Adelson School of Entrepreneurship ), I needed a way to break down strategic product thinking into distinct components that would help people understand and focus on one aspect each time. It is the separation that helps you sharpen your strategy. How detailed?

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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. That’s why they are looking to hire a product leader and not just a senior product manager.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 1, 2023

The Unique Challenges of Managing Product Managers It starts with my guiding principle that every product manager needs to think about strategy. The cliche of being the product CEO holds here — one needs to see their product area end-to-end and fully own it. As a manager, you need to define your boundaries.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2021

My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.ganotnoa.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on January 19, 2021. Ask the hard questions upfront, so that you have fewer hard conversations to make down the road.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

If you feel this is your current situation, it is your responsibility as a product leader to change it. Create a product strategy, and use it to help everyone align and create their own strategies based on it (marketing, sales etc.). My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 8, 2020

It was clear to me that there is a challenge that every single product leader worldwide is dealing with these days, and it is the necessity to redefine and adjust their product or business strategy, and do it fast. Understand what is the goal of your (new) strategy so that you can build the right path to get there.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

But the first thing Twiggle’s founders asked me to do was to decide which product we are going to create with the amazing technology that they have built so far. This required a whole new level of thinking and a deep understanding of product-market fit. And they go far beyond the product itself.

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