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.

Product Strategy 147

Product Strategy Strategy User Testing Weak Development Team 147

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.

User Testing 158

User Testing Customer Experience Product Research Startups 158

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? It’s actually simpler than you think.

User Testing 96

User Testing Product Research Strategy Product Strategy 96

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.

Product Strategy 144

Product Strategy Strategy User Testing Weak Development Team 144

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. What was so special about it?

Product Strategy 121

Product Strategy Strategy User Testing Product Research 121

The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Customer experience isn’t just for products. As an employee, you provide customer experience to your manager, your colleagues, and your own employees. There are many things to take from it, but I mainly took the fact that you need to think about the customers from their point of view. Is it a great one?

Customer Experience 174

Customer Experience User Testing Customer Feedback Data Visualization 174

Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 17, 2020

Between interfacing with multiple teams, coordinating release schedules, prioritizing customer happiness, driving the mobile product roadmap, messaging product announcements internally and externally, and myriad other activities, the list of “to-do’s” for mobile product managers may seem endless, and the job is ever-changing.

User Testing 147

User Testing Feedback Software Technical Review Customer Experience 147

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. The way they understood the term ‘product’ was very straightforward — the actual bites of code that are released to the world for people to use.

Naming 148

Naming User Testing Weak Development Team Feedback Software 148

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.

Product Marketing 98

Product Marketing Marketing Research Software Feedback Software 98

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.

User Testing 78

User Testing Product Marketing Marketing Customer Experience 78

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.

User Testing 191

User Testing Customer Experience Product Research Definition 191

The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2023

A successful product can only work if people actually buy it. But too many product leaders focus on the product itself and not on what makes it sell. As product leaders you cannot ignore the full customer journey to make sure it makes sense. It appears in your product itself. Hint: it’s not features.

User Testing 145

User Testing Customer Experience Product Strategy UX 145

The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

As a product manager , you must understand strategy and business, but your responsibilities as well as your day-to-day activities are focused more on execution. To make a real impact as a product leader, you must engage yourself in everything it takes to make your product a business success.

Strategy 148

Strategy Product Management Product Manager Management 148

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.

User Testing 149

User Testing B2C Customer Experience Weak Development Team 149

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.

Startups 135

Startups User Testing Agile Product Research 135

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.

Feedback Software 96

Feedback Software Analytic Tools Research Software User Testing 96

The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Thinking and talking about the product definitely falls under this category. When it comes to the actual work products that product managers deliver: wireframes and user stories. Product Definition Itself Is Not Strategy So why do the CEOs say it is an important, strategic role? and crosses all domains.

User Testing 152

User Testing Definition CTO Product Research 152

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.

Customer Experience 158

Customer Experience User Testing Feedback Software Product Research 158

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.

Feedback Software 162

Feedback Software Marketing User Testing Finance 162

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?

Feedback Software 97

Feedback Software Branding Customer Experience User Testing 97

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.

Vision 107

Vision Product Strategy Strategy User Friction 107

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. product manager, product owner, product marketing, etc.)

Certifications 114

Certifications Customer Experience Artificial Inteligence Product Management 114

The Product Coalition

AUGUST 13, 2023

But to truly solve customers’ problems, founders and product leaders must think beyond what they already know about the product. But that leads to another problem — how do you know which product to create? How to solve a certain customer problem? Real invention is hard, that’s why real innovation is hard.

Customer Experience 147

Customer Experience User Testing Generative AI Books 147

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.

Customer Experience 166

Customer Experience Product Research User Testing Data Visualization 166

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.

Differentiation 111

Differentiation Analytic Tools Research Software Feedback Software 111

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.

Education 158

Education Marketing Weak Development Team Advertising 158

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Every now and then, early-stage founders approach me to hear about their product idea and give them feedback. This mostly happens with products related to the product space itself — products for product managers and product teams. I see them everywhere, and apparently, they see me too.

Data Visualization 158

Data Visualization Customer Communications Feedback Software User Testing 158

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. Many blue-ocean startups start here.

Education 146

Education Marketing Weak Development Team User Testing 146

The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2021

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. The people they talked to wanted to test their product, they loved what they saw, and were intrigued to hear and get more.

Vision 177

Vision User Testing Startups Consulting 177

The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 25, 2022

There are many ingredients needed in order for your product to succeed. Not all of them are related to your product, or even to your product’s domain. Your customers’ ecosystem has more impact on your ability to succeed than you might think. Since I’m a business customer of Google, I decided to open a support ticket.

User Testing 146

User Testing Customer Experience Presentation Engineering 146

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.

Framework 143

Framework User Testing Customer Experience Definition 143

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?

User Testing 125

User Testing Definition Product Marketing Marketing 125

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.

Leadership 186

Leadership Messaging Customer Experience Travel 186

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Redefine Success As a product leader, your end game is different than the one you had as a product manager or even as a group leader in larger organizations. You can no longer define success as having a good product, or as satisfying sales’ or users’ needs. The product strategy plays a critical role here.

Leadership 158

Leadership User Testing Product Strategy Strategy 158

Userpilot

MAY 19, 2021

You hear many people chanting the same things about how this one specific tactic gave them +1000% in ROI, and then you look at your own strategy and wonder why it’s all crickets. SaaS Content Marketing. SEO Keyword Research. Product-led Growth. Influencer Marketing. Determine Your Saas Marketing Goals.

Research Software 119

Research Software B2B User Testing Customer Experience 119

Mixpanel

JANUARY 11, 2021

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. We also have a kid’s product, with ebooks, video games, audio stories, videos, movies, etc.

Data Visualization 98

Data Visualization User Testing Customer Experience Analytic Tools 98

The Product Coalition

JANUARY 6, 2024

The competitive analysis itself is a major part of your product strategy efforts, and here is how to do it at the right level. When I work with the product leaders of the companies I mentor on their competitive analysis, they usually come up with a comparison table for each competitor, that includes mostly features.

User Testing 146

User Testing Customer Experience Customer Feedback Presentation 146