Userpilot

MARCH 9, 2025

What happens when you build a product or service around what you think potential customers want, only for them to buy something else? For starters, it shows you dont know your customers well enough. But worse than that, it leads to lower revenue, failed products, and plummeting customer loyalty. The short answer: yes.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

We’ll explore how you can test and research ideas for your product, service, or business model. Idea validation is a process where a specific product, service, or business idea is tested in various ways to determine its viability. Market research Every product design cycle should start with a robust research phase.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Stefan Röse breaks down how Quantilope is pushing forward customer development and the consumer research field. By Jon Matheson for Product Coalition Have you ever wondered how much a consumer is worth? Depending on who you ask, the answer will vary depending on what they genuinely know or understand about consumers.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 6, 2024

If there’s one thing product managers and product marketing managers wish they had more time for, it’s market research. Second and even more important, the process of doing market research even if you have a fulltime person doing it, is still terribly time-consuming and inefficient. Summer Intern Anyone?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

What are the different marketing research methods product marketing teams can use to inform their strategies? You will also learn about different types of market research and how to conduct it step by step. They also enable targeted user engagement and improve the effectiveness of marketing campaigns.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

However, this is a naïve analysis that overlooks lost market share due to poor strategic thinking, or the demoralizing effect on engineers having to repeatedly rewrite code because of poor product-market fit. This framework covers five major questions: What do we aspire to be? Where do we play? And where do we not play?

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Market Analysis Before and With AI Customers are clamoring for a number of improvements to your product and youre on a mission to get them funded and on the roadmap. However, just because customers want them doesnt mean theyre delivering the level of differentiating value your organization needs to meet its own goals.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

I wanted to share with you the framework I use when doing this. Below is a brief overview of the framework that I use and a few signs of where you should start if you want to run this exercise yourself. Others are SaaS companies that are scaling or have scaled recently and want to ensure they are doing it in the best way.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 5, 2017

In this post, I share a simple model or framework to answer this question. The first box in the Secret Product Management Framework. Product” involves things like: Requirements or user stories or features. Our products solve problems for users. A consumer product like the Swiffer solves a problem – dirty floors.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 14, 2024

AI can help in many parts of making a product, from research to writing product plans and documents. The future of product management will involve using more AI tools, like advanced language models and creating fake data for testing. We’ll need to keep learning as AI keeps getting better.

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BrainMates

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The Customer Service Gap Model By ADRIENNE TAN In competitive markets, delivering superior customer value is a top priority. It’s not just about creating a great product—it’s about ensuring the entire customer journey, from initial interaction to post-purchase support, exceeds expectations.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 20, 2020

She describes the role as being at the intersection of the user and the business, but in a place where the stakes are much higher. She condemns the SAFe framework, which separates the role of product owner and product manager, asserting the former as tactical and the latter strategic. Customer and market insights.

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Melissa Perri

JUNE 29, 2017

Let’s look at where these terms and disciplines originated from and how some common frameworks explain them. That was until I had my first experience teaching Product Management at a company using the SAFe framework. You are teaching us to talk to users, but I am a Product Owner. It introduced the concept of a Product Owner.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 22, 2019

If you wanted to know your customers’ gripes and praises in the past, you had to assemble a series of questions anticipating their possible answer. It’s all part of a customer-centric philosophy that emphasizes empathy and self-awareness over a staid corporate vision. But there’s a better way now. Short on time?

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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

MARCH 24, 2021

We can see that such innovations face a chasm between the early and the mainstream market. Crossing this chasm decides if the innovation will become a success or has to leave the market. Innovators have to build first reference customers in the mainstream market to prove having a promising business model and a compelling offering.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 14, 2017

The confusion stems—at least partly—from the fact that Scrum is a simple framework focused on helping teams develop software. Why didn’t the framework use the term product manager ? Product managers used to do the upfront market research, product planning, and requirements definition work.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

It’s marketing. Without marketing, even the best apps struggle when it comes to customer acquisition and discovery. You don’t need a big budget or a dedicated marketing team to market your app. For a consistent brand image, all of your marketing activities should communicate and reinforce this one statement.

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Userpilot

JULY 24, 2024

Launching a product without a well-defined product strategy framework is similar—you risk wasting resources without a clear path to success. So, how do you outline a product strategy framework that is the foundation of product-led growth ? Outline a marketing plan to promote your product across multiple channels and drive sales.

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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? This framework made innovation more predictable and effective.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Concept testing is an integral part of designing UX that not only satisfies user needs but delights them. This article introduces various concept tests, shows you how to conduct them, and discusses ways to collect user feedback to gain actionable insights. Consider using AI for qualitative feedback analysis.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As product managers, it’s our job to develop solutions that solve real problems for our customers and create value for the business. One effective approach is to use a hypothesis-driven product validation framework to ensure that your efforts are focused on the most important questions at the right time.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

What’s preference testing? How to conduct a preference test and collect feedback ? TL;DR Preference testing is a research method used by UX and UI designers to decide which designs users prefer and why. What is a preference test? What are its benefits and drawbacks?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

With the right product research tools, you can dissect vast pools of data, gather actionable insights, and create products that align directly with your user’s needs. But how can you build the right product research tech stack to achieve your product growth goals? Qualtrics. UXPressia. Productboard. Optimizely.

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Userzoom

JULY 31, 2019

The research industry is no stranger to buzzwords. So when I began bumping into mentions of ‘blockchain and research’ during season five of Silicon Valley , I made a mental note to pay close attention. What does this mean for the research industry? What is Blockchain? Participation rates.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

After sharing how I thought the business could improve based on the market situation, customer feedback , and some new ideas that leveraged our core technologies, she looked at me and said: “What are you doing? It’s the same for the market. Customers don’t just adopt. My teams move markets. I’m researching.

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DISQO

JULY 5, 2018

“It will win with the customer by doing a series of small bets that give it insight on how to build that long-term customer relationship.”. Whereas many organizations have deep and meaningful expertise doing large-scale market research, their findings are hitting critical limitations. Make small bets, via experimentation.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 17, 2018

Bob Moesta pioneered the Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) framework in the mid 90’s, alongside Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen. In short, JTBD is a research process that helps uncover a customer’s motivation for buying your product – the “job” your product is“hired” to complete. Short on time?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 22, 2024

A product marketing framework is like a compass that guides you through the complex, fast-paced world of SaaS. From initial launch to ongoing product management , this framework acts as a map towards sustainable growth. However, selecting a framework or creating one from scratch can be very confusing.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

What’s the best way to ensure your product hits the right chord with users? A user needs analysis conducted with product analytics data lets you build products that address user pain points and exceed their expectations. In this article, we dig deeper into what user needs analysis is and how you can get started with it.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This vertical SaaS functions as a feedback management solution, but it is a feedback management solution designed exclusively for other SaaS companies. Select the right vertical As previously said, vertical SaaS solutions do not take a “one-size-fits-all” strategy. Conducting market research is also essential.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 11, 2024

Incrementality test designs for advertising campaigns 6. Using Lenny’s Newsletter research, what is good retention for a consumer product? Explain the product-market-fit survey by Rahul Vohra c. Doing market research 12. Notion’s AI go-to-market strategy 13. Finding benchmarks 7.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

What is the product-market fit framework? How is product market fit different from product-customer fit? A company achieves the product-market fit when the product satisfies the needs of enough customers who are willing to pay for it, and it is easy to scale. Let’s jump in!

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Level two increases empowerment by adding the authority to determine the features and user experience the product should offer. You spend a significant amount of your time refining product backlog items, writing user stories , tracking the development progress, and talking to development team members.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Our previous conversations with Bob have covered how to unpack customer motivations and the Jobs-To-Be-Done framework (of which he was one of the principal architects). In this episode, Bob and I chat about his new book Demand-Side Sales 101: Stop Selling and Help Your Customers Make Progress. Des: That makes a lot of sense.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Good product teams understand that their customers’ needs and behaviours are ever changing and the way to truly predict what impact any update will have is to try it on a small set of real customers. Since experimentation has become a discipline on its own, there are established best practices for cross functional teams to follow.

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