Tue.Jan 22, 2019

article thumbnail

When is it Time to Scale the Product Team?

ProductPlan

When you find yourself wondering if it’s time to scale your product team, you have what we’d call a high-quality problem. The need to add product management resources probably means your product is succeeding. But, it also means you may be struggling to give your products the strategic attention and expertise they need to continue growing.

article thumbnail

Lead Nurturing 101: How to get new customers beyond the free trial

Intercom, Inc.

Between 40% and 60% of people who sign up for a free trial of your software will never convert. What are you doing with the leads that don’t convert right away? If your answer is “nothing,” you’re leaving money on the table. By instituting a lead nurturing campaign sequence, you can guide those prospects through your buying cycle, from the moment they enter their email address on your website, to successful adoption of your product and beyond.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Product Trends to Watch in 2019

Mind the Product

As 2019 gets underway, I’ve been enjoying taking stock of what we saw at Mind the Product Training over 2018. As a product manager I’m always looking for signals and patterns, and evaluating what early trends could mean for my products, and now for product practice. Noticing early indications of patterns of behavior can help product managers to plan ahead and work specific questions into their learning roadmaps.

article thumbnail

Product Process Approaches and Insights

The Product Guy

It’s critical to have a robust, yet dynamic product process to produce repeatable success. Learn great approaches to managing all the stages of your product life-cycle from ideas to launch and beyond. Watch as we learn more from product management expert, Alisa Warshawski.

article thumbnail

Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

article thumbnail

What Everybody Should Know About Product Management Design Sprints

The Product Coalition

One of the product management principles is being nimble. In the past, firms would set long-term goals and detailed plans that would oversee processes for a sizable period : weeks, months or even years! However, today’s consumer cycle and the digital revolution demand product teams that are ready to juggle and switch between tasks very quickly. This is not because non-physical products are always in “beta mode”: actually, it is this modular aspect that makes certain applications very powerful.

More Trending

article thumbnail

Three Common Beta Testing Tools That Eat Up Test Managers’ Time

Centercode

The results of the 2018 Customer Validation Industry Survey backed up what we already knew: time is a precious commodity that test managers don’t have a lot of. Responses from over 300 companies showed how and where today’s testing professionals are spending their time. In particular, it revealed how the Beta Testing tools they use impact bandwidth and overall program effectiveness.

article thumbnail

How Obo uses Pendo to “fast track” customers to value

Obo

We’re launching our company and new product this month in the emerging product decision system space, addressing the pressing need to build better products in less time and at lower costs. Obo is a new product, so it’s highly likely that our target customers don’t know exactly what to expect. To make it easier, we decided to use Pendo to create in-product guides that help customers find their way.

article thumbnail

How Service Leaders Can Help Themselves to Hit Their Revenue Targets

TSIA

In the United States alone, the size of the “self-help” industry is almost $10 billion per year. People seek out guidance on how to lose weight, mend relationships, or kick a bad habit. But the point of nearly every “self-help” resource is that no one else is going make it happen for you—ultimately, you have to do it yourself.

article thumbnail

How Obo uses Pendo to “fast track” customers to value

Obo

We’re launching our company and new product this month in the emerging product decision system space, addressing the pressing need to build better products in less time and at lower costs. Obo is a new product, so it’s highly likely that our target customers don’t know exactly what to expect. To make it easier, we decided to use Pendo to create in-product guides that help customers find their way.

article thumbnail

Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

article thumbnail

How to use Mixpanel to drive your website KPIs

Mixpanel

In my role as the Website Marketing Manager at Mixpanel, I am responsible for creating and maintaining a great user experience for our site visitors, while also supporting Mixpanel’s growth efforts by filling the sales pipeline with qualified leads. To keep a pulse on the site, I regularly use Mixpanel to monitor and track top line metrics for traffic, on-site engagement, conversions, and drop-offs.

article thumbnail

How to go from shipping code to shipping an organization: Becoming a Chief Product Officer at Degreed

ProductBoard

Seven years ago, Degreed’s CEO asked Kat Kennedy, their current Chief Product Officer, if she’d be interested in switching from her software development role to a product management role. Her response? “What exactly do product managers do and how many of them do you really need?” As Kat explains in our free eBook, The Path to Product Excellence: Stories and Advice from the Field.

article thumbnail

Forrester: AD&D Pros Need to Stop Guessing and Start Experimenting

Split

According to Forrester, “Most application development and delivery (AD&D) teams are stuck guessing about what their users need, relying on internal experts to guide their decisions. This approach to development is no longer sufficient to keep up with changing user preferences or increasingly complex production environments.”. If that sounds at all familiar, the detailed analysis and insight provided by Forrester in a new report may be ideal for you and your development and delivery teams.

article thumbnail

Get More Value from “Hopes and Fears” with a Quadrant Map

Atomic Spin PM

The “Hopes and Fears” Design Thinking exercise is a great way to foster discussion around our client’s worries and hopes about the project, especially early on in the process. For a recent project, I was researching ways to get more actionable output from the exercise. I found a fantastic blog post from Innovator Ltd on how to organize fears into a coordinate system.

article thumbnail

Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

article thumbnail

Increase the Value of Your Customer Interview

UserInterviews

Put your user at the center of your interviews

68
article thumbnail

Get More Value from “Hopes and Fears” with a Four-Quadrant Map

Atomic Spin PM

The “Hopes and Fears” Design Thinking exercise is a great way to foster discussion around our client’s worries and hopes about the project, especially early on in the process. For a recent project, I was researching ways to get more actionable output from the exercise. I found a fantastic blog post from Innovator Ltd on how to organize fears into a coordinate system.

article thumbnail

Increase the Value of Your Customer Interview

UserInterviews

Put your user at the center of your interviews

40
article thumbnail

How to Build Your Self-Confidence by Memorializing Praise and Rejection

Sachin Rekhi

I've had the opportunity to mentor a breadth of product managers through the years as well as entrepreneurs through my work as an advisor to early-stage startups. And in doing so I've spent countless hours working through product challenges, startup challenges, and everything in between. As I work more closely with each individual, their guard starts to come down, they start to open up, and ultimately become willing to share some of their biggest challenges, uncertainties, and fears holding them

article thumbnail

Exploring PerfDog Whitepaper 2024: Unlock the Power of Performance Testing

Key Takeaways Robust Platform & Multi-System Support: Brief introduction to PerfDog's extensive compatibility across various operating systems and hardware platforms including Android, iOS, PC, gaming consoles and more. In-Depth Performance Metrics: Quick view of the extensive range of metrics for system, graphics and rendering, user experience, in-depth analysis, and more.

article thumbnail

Increase the Value of Your Customer Interview

UserInterviews

Put your user at the center of your interviews

40
article thumbnail

0 ? 1 and 1 ? N

DISQO

To succeed in the digital age, your organization needs to be excellent at both innovating and scaling. Here’s our blueprint. It’s almost cliche to say that massive companies born in the industrial age struggle to evolve and innovate in today’s digital world. Regardless of eagerness, developing a mobile app by applying the same resource allocation and planning process you would for a widget factory almost always results in disappointment.

article thumbnail

7 Unexpected Ways Your PM and BD Can Collaborate to Improve Your Business

Oren Steinberg

Product Management and Business Development have more in common than you think. When was the last time your PM sat down with your BD? And no, I don’t mean when your PM explained the product so your BD could find the right channels to sell it through. I mean, really sat down to work together, open up and collaborate on everything. If this is not happening regularly, you are missing out on some big opportunities. 1.

article thumbnail

0 ? 1 and 1 ? N

DISQO

To succeed in the digital age, your organization needs to be excellent at both innovating and scaling. Here’s our blueprint. It’s almost cliche to say that massive companies born in the industrial age struggle to evolve and innovate in today’s digital world. Regardless of eagerness, developing a mobile app by applying the same resource allocation and planning process you would for a widget factory almost always results in disappointment.

article thumbnail

Product Management Careers: Job Prospects, Pathways, and Must-Have Skills (2024)

The product management job market in 2024 reflects the fast-growing and ever-evolving nature of the field. For product managers looking to future-proof their careers and take advantage of new opportunities, staying informed about the professional landscape is a smart move. In this comprehensive career guide from Regis College, you’ll learn about: The current job outlook for product managers in 2024 Six professional pathways and the average salaries for these roles in the U.S.

article thumbnail

Product Design in the Face of Hypergrowth

ProductCraft

All businesses are not created equal, but there’s a single thing they all pursue: growth. This sometimes-elusive indicator is the most important health metric for many CEOs and investors alike, but if you’re on the “hockey stick” trajectory it might feel like you can have too much of a good thing. With massive growth comes. The post Product Design in the Face of Hypergrowth appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

49
article thumbnail

0 ? 1 and 1 ? N

DISQO

To succeed in the digital age, your organization needs to be excellent at both innovating and scaling. Here’s our blueprint. It’s almost cliche to say that massive companies born in the industrial age struggle to evolve and innovate in today’s digital world. Regardless of eagerness, developing a mobile app by applying the same resource allocation and planning process you would for a widget factory almost always results in disappointment.

article thumbnail

0 ? 1 and 1 ? N

DISQO

To succeed in the digital age, your organization needs to be excellent at both innovating and scaling. Here’s our blueprint. It’s almost cliche to say that massive companies born in the industrial age struggle to evolve and innovate in today’s digital world. Regardless of eagerness, developing a mobile app by applying the same resource allocation and planning process you would for a widget factory almost always results in disappointment.