Mon.May 13, 2019

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A content-first approach to product onboarding

Intercom, Inc.

Knowing your user’s story is central to a great onboarding experience – but how do you actually tell that story ? At some point you need to write the content of your onboarding: words, sentences, value props, the works. Ultimately, it’s the content that helps your users achieve their goals. That’s a lot of heavy lifting for just a few bits of text. As it turns out, writing your onboarding is a real job, and it’s often harder than you might think.

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Are idea portals a bad idea?

Obo

Idea portals aren’t a bad idea -- but they aren’t necessarily a good idea. In theory, idea portals are great. Your customers (and others) can enter and vote on ideas for your products, and voilà -- you’re customer-centric! What could possibly go wrong? If you’re not careful, your idea portal will miss the mark and steer your product roadmap off track.

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Dear Strategy: 086 Getting The Word Out

Dear Strategy

Dear Strategy: “I have a product that uniquely meets the needs of a large target market, but I can’t seem to reach them. What should I do?”. . For regular followers of this blog (and podcast), you know that we’re just coming off a 5-part series that was 100% dedicated to understanding the target market for your product or business. (See Episode 81 to view the first of those five posts).

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What Monzo Learned From Scaling its Lending Team

Mind the Product

I’m a product manager at Monzo. We’re a UK-based bank and our mission is to make money work for everyone. We recently reached 1,800,000 current account customers – after launching in January 2018 – and are focusing on growing our user base and revenue. We’re currently profitable on a per user basis, but not overall as a company, and so we need to grow both the number of users and the amount of money we earn per user to cover our ongoing fixed costs.

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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.

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So You Think You’re Ready to Hire a Marketer? Read This First.

First Round Review

As First Round’s Marketing Expert in Residence, Arielle Jackson often helps early-stage founders navigate the search for a full-time marketer of their own. From the when and the why to the who and the how, Jackson offers a crash course on every aspect of the marketer hiring process to help startups figure out what they need and avoid common pitfalls as they fill this important role.

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Reinvent Yourself. Your Company’s Future Depends on It

ProductCraft

Although only in his mid-30s, Sam Barnett has been lots of different people. He’s been the hotshot CEO of a London ad tech startup and a “reluctant” chief product officer at a global enterprise. He’s ping-ponged between urbane poseur and aspiring surfer. He’s thrived when bootstrapped yet struggled under the weight of millions in outside. Read more » The post Reinvent Yourself.

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Creating ‘Mortgage Customers for life’?—?Using the ‘Hook Framework’

The Product Coalition

Creating ‘Mortgage Customers for life’?—?Using the ‘Hook Framework’ So here we have John Doe, who has taken a housing loan from us. We have on boarded and are servicing his loan for the last 8 years. Unfortunately John had an immediate financial need. His son needs to start college, he doesn’t have a college fund and instead of coming to us, he found another lender to meet his immediate need.

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IoT failures and trust in technology

CONTACT Software

At the beginning of April this year I attended the building IoT in Cologne. At the conference, which was organized by heise developer, iX and d.punkt publishing house, everything revolved around applications for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0 in lectures and an exhibition. Together with my colleague Yang Zhong, I presented modern user experience concepts (UX) for IoT solutions in a lecture.

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Who Comes to Business of Software Conference USA?

Business of Software Conference

Who Comes to Business of Software Conference USA? If you are curious about who comes to Business of Software Conference USA, be curious no more. We’re as bored as you probably are about signing up for an event then getting endless marketing emails from companies associated with an event that we didn’t ask for or want. In this age of growth hacking and list building, conferences are rich pickings for unscrupulous operators who use attendee lists to build marketing lists for themselves

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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.

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IoT failures and the trust in technology

CONTACT Software

At the beginning of April this year I was at the building IoT in Cologne. At the conference, which was organized by heise developer, iX and d.punkt publishing house, everything revolved around applications for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0 in lectures and an exhibition. Together with my colleague Yang Zhong, I was able to present modern user experience concepts (UX) for IoT solutions in a lecture.

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Barnes & Noble Product Managers Rediscover Books

The Accidental Product Manager

The Barnes & Noble product managers realize that they have lost their way Image Credit: Mike Kalasnik. Quick question for you: when was the last time that you were in a Barnes & Noble bookstore ? When I tried to answer this question, I had to think about it for awhile. I think that the last time I actually entered one of their stores was around Christmas when I had whittled my list down to the last few people who are always hard to shop for.

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Dear Strategy: 086 Getting The Word Out

Dear Strategy

On this week’s episode, host Bob Caporale , founder of Strategy Generation Company and author of Creative Strategy Generation , answers the following question: Dear Strategy: “I have a product that uniquely meets the needs of a large target market, but I can’t seem to each them. What should I do?”. Read The Full Blog Post. The post Dear Strategy: 086 Getting The Word Out appeared first on Dear Strategy.