The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

It could be the difference between answering customer success’s questions about a newly released feature whenever they ask them and approaching them periodically to ask how the feature is being adopted and whether they need help. We want them to succeed; we are not here to test them. It’s all about ownership, right?

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Gainsight

APRIL 11, 2025

Most companies adopting customer community solutions are aware of the key features needed to get started. How do you capture that certain je ne sais quoi that makes your community become a home for everything your users need? What Does a Vibrant Customer Community Look Like?

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airfocus

JUNE 25, 2025

eBook Leveraging Product Strategy Read now Why timing and momentum matter The frequency and execution of pivots matter deeply. Research from McKinsey shows that companies that reallocate resources proactively – rather than reactively – outperform their peers by up to 30% in total returns to shareholders over a decade.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

There’s no way to succeed without talking to customers. Photo by Martin Damboldt Whenever I tell product people that they must talk to customers, someone brings up the famous Henry Ford quote about faster horses: “ If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

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Revulytics

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Software customers have many choices and high expectations, and as such, even the most established installations could fall to a more agile competitor. It’s against that backdrop that the term “customer-obsessed” has ascended in importance. What does it mean to be customer-obsessed? How to increase customer engagement.

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Gainsight

MARCH 27, 2025

As International Womens History Month comes to a close, it’s a fitting moment to celebrate the powerful intersection of women in leadership and customer success. Gainsight recently launched Season 2 of our Women in Customer Success Power Up Masterclasses in partnership with Women in Customer Success.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 10, 2017

As Marc Wendell described in a Product Mentor video, the foundation of success in both product management and user experience (UX) is solving a problem for a specific user. Products fall short when they include and/or over-prioritize extraneous features that don’t solve that user’s problem. Asking the wrong users for input.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

I prided myself on knowing my customers. When I built a new feature, I knew exactly who would benefit from it and knew who to call for feedback. I had many, many more customers (millions more), but no way of segmenting these customers into personas or roles like at my previous job. But that was my old job in edtech.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

We like to get painful user problems to solve. You can ask me to change the color somewhere or put a button on a screen, and I will probably do that, but I really like to get challenging problems where I can do my research build prototypes, do user tests, and come up with a solution that will raise our product to the next level.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 4, 2021

I know many authors who use their blog as a way to test content. So I put the book on hold and started devising a plan to test my content. This gave me a great feedback loop to measure the efficacy of my content. Some teams got stuck because they couldn’t find customers to interview. I knew I needed more feedback.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

A marketer or market researcher may view patterns in terms of demographics and buying activity. A user researcher or other UX practitioner may group users by patterns in their behavior, both inside and outside your product. User personas stand in for users throughout the design of your product. Sad but true.

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Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 21, 2021

What have been your favorite ways to connect and get feedback from your customers? If you want to learn about machine learning, learning about A/B testing and SQL is a great way to intro into that because it teaches you the fundamentals machine learning is built on. Because you’re never going to find the perfect fit.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

What have been your favorite ways to connect and get feedback from your customers? Sometimes I joke that we produce nothing except that we help all the pieces fit together and to run smoothly.” ” What have been your favorite ways to connect and get feedback from your customers?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 1, 2022

We’ve all heard the term “ customer-centric ” in the context of running a successful business, but what does it really mean? From one perspective, it’s about creating value for customers, delivering an effective product at a good price. This is where customer feedback for sales comes into play. No ifs, no buts.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 24, 2021

billion smartphone users worldwide (yes, that’s roughly 80 percent of the population!), Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) : The amount of revenue each of your active customers (on average) contribute. Retention: Retention is a measurement of customer churn: How many customers continue to actively use your app after one week?

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UX Studio: Product Management

AUGUST 17, 2018

Here we’ll give you some guidelines and best practices, whether you’re just beginning to include usability testing in your processes or are setting out to up your usability testing game. Usability tests check if people can use a product. What is usability testing? What is the purpose of usability testing?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 31, 2022

If you are on the journey toward product-market fit, you know it’s not easy. Every new product has its own fit to find. One of the hardest challenges of any product and any startup is of course reaching product-market fit. The good news is that product-market fit, like people, and cars, have their own “operating system”.

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Userzoom

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

This is a guide for UX and research practitioners who have either newly joined an organization that’s using the Agile methodology, or their current product development is adopting Agile for the first time and they’ve been told to “make UX research happen in this new fangled process immediately please!” . What are the benefits of Agile?

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Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 14, 2021

What have been your favorite ways to connect and get feedback from your customers? And the only way you can combat that is having your research lined up and being able to combat that with real-world data to support or disprove that.” ” Download the eBook to read the interviews here or watch the full webinar here.

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Userzoom

JANUARY 8, 2020

When your organization has bought into the idea of running user research throughout the entire design process , there’s one side effect you may not have expected to be an issue – the sheer volume of requests from multiple teams asking for your UX expertise. Five sizes fit all? Five sizes fit all?

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Although we strive to work in an environment where user research is a part of every stage of the product development lifecycle , and your executives have completely bought in to everything you do… we have to be realistic. UX Researcher / Designer. White paper research and expert evaluations can be done quickly and economically.

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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. This is where I find myself saying that in this case the prospect might not turn into a customer, and it’s OK.

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UX Studio

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

But by doing the right research at the right time, you can get the information you need to advance. Easier said than done… Is it not just a question of market research vs user research? We wrote this to help you choose the right research methods more easily. So many questions regarding research.

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Centercode

JANUARY 15, 2021

The people who consume tech have also changed significantly. From the niche world of hi-tech enthusiasts from the 90s to today’s mainstream users, the people who consume technology have had as much of an effect on its evolution as it has had in our daily life. Yesterday’s Tech Buyers: Enthusiasts.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

When you monitor emotion and measure sentiment, you try to gauge the tone, context, and feeling from customer actions. Whether a customer completes a purchase, leaves a review, or mentions your company socially, there is always an emotional state connected to their action. There’s an easy explanation for this phenomenon.

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Userzoom

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

If you’re in the process of democratizing UX beyond the boundaries of your own UX team, and equipping other people in the organization with the skills to run their own research, s tandardization can increase efficiency and helps set expectations of what’s involved in a user research project. UX Researcher | GrubHub. “It

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Our 14 leadership principles are woven into the DNA of everyone who works there and every process in the company, and six of them are directly related to innovation: Customer obsession—people wake up every day trying to figure out how to delight their customers. 7:47] How did you see customer obsession encouraged at Amazon?

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Product managers must communicate their ideas to others in ways that are clear and solicit feedback. We evolved from infographics to motion graphics, interactive eBooks, and other visual media. We visualize those messages so that audiences will consume them far more often and voraciously. [8:13]

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 29, 2024

ODI shifts focus from generating ideas to understanding and addressing customer needs, leading to more successful products and innovations. This failure led to a crucial question: What if we knew beforehand how customers would judge our product? It reinforced the idea of focusing on the customer’s underlying goal.

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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. Here are the most common pitfalls when it comes to understanding your potential customers.

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