The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 14, 2022

You would think that being a product manager for a hot new start-up beverage would be a great job, right? What does a product manager have to do in order to make their new drink product a success? Why It’s Hard To Market New Drink Products. Why It’s Hard To Market New Drink Products.

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JANUARY 24, 2022

Product managers who are responsible for selling alcohol are in a bit of a bind these days. This news is sad for alcohol product managers. are called “alcopops” The product development definition for these drinks defines a strong, sugary alcoholic soda that is targeted towards younger drinkers.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 28, 2023

Sometimes good ideas just don’t make it to market Image Credit: Vaping360 As product managers, the one thing that we’d all like to do is to be in charge of a very popular product. However, something that we often don’t consider is that if a product is popular, it’s going to get a lot of scrutiny.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 15, 2021

The product managers at Facebook have real problem on their hands. This means that they have to sit around and review their product development definition as they try to identify new products that can appeal to their over 2 billion users. Let’s face it: the Facebook product managers may be on to something here.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JUNE 12, 2023

That’s why being a cruise line product manager can be a very good job. Now that they have once again been granted permission to sail, how are their product managers going to go about finding ways to get their customers to come back and travel the high seas with them? Clearly passengers are willing to climb aboard.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 7, 2019

Focus groups are the way that product managers used to find out how customers felt about their product Image Credit: RSNY. When a product manager is put in charge of a product, one of the first questions that they would like to be able to answer is just exactly what do potential customers think about the product?

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The Accidental Product Manager

MAY 2, 2022

The products may look like water, but they taste like something else Image Credit: Marco Verch Professional Photographer. Some product managers are betting that you would say yes. Japanese product managers are increasingly producing products that look like water but taste like other drinks. What color is it?

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The Accidental Product Manager

JUNE 7, 2021

If product managers can make mining vehicles electric then there will be many benefits Image Credit: benketaro. These companies want a better solution and that’s what a group of product managers is trying to use their product development definition to provide them with. Yes you say? A very big one.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 18, 2022

The Starbucks product managers are now starting to face more competition for business in China than they have ever experienced before. What should they do with their product development definition now? All of which would look good on any product manager resume. When you want to get a cup of coffee, where do you go?

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The Accidental Product Manager

APRIL 12, 2021

However, it turns out that for the product managers who work at these food delivery firms, all is not so good. Product managers need to understand that their customers have become spoiled. This means that restaurant and grocer product managers are now rushing to satisfy the exact same demand.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 1, 2022

Delivery wars cause product managers to search out unused spaces Image Credit: Parm Parmar. For the product managers who are working at the restaurants that are providing all of this food, times have been tough. What the product managers need is more kitchen space. A New Life For Old Malls.

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The Accidental Product Manager

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Changes at Google will have an impact on product managers Image Credit: Mary Crandall. In order to be a successful product manager, we need to have data. In the world of consumer products product managers have been having it pretty easy in the past few years. So what’s going on?

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Even existing products can be made to seem to be hip Image Credit: Mike Mozart. So here’s a classic problem that product managers are faced with all the time: you are responsible for an established product. What are you going to do to get customers interested in your older product ? Time has passed.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 25, 2022

What is a product manager to do when a partner goes bankrupt? In order to be a successful product manager, often we will have to use our product development definition to find partners for our company to work with. Product managers need to understand that this creates a downward spiral.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 11, 2022

Chinese product managers are trying to win over millions of Indian users Image Credit: Neha Singh. If you were the product manager for a new social media app, what would your #1 goal be every day when you went to work? There is only one answer to that question: to sign up more users for you app. billion people.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 10, 2022

What can elevator product managers do to make our elevator experience better? The product managers at Otis Elevator create and manage products that carry two billion people daily, and their technology is driving sales and servicing of equipment. How can an elevator be designed to meet customer needs?

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The Accidental Product Manager

APRIL 18, 2022

In order to make sure that people want to buy their products, product managers have to stay on top of changes in the technology that people use to make payments. Over in China product managers are once again moving forward in the area of payments and they are making changes to their product development definition.

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The Accidental Product Manager

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Botox product managers now have to face new rivals Image Credit: Leslie Nguyen. Good news for product managers – nobody likes to get old! What this means for product managers is that there is a huge market for products that will allow us to avoid looking like we are getting older. The Power Of Botox.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 29, 2022

Some vaping products have been banned, but are there ways around this? Ah, but to be the product manager for a vaping product. The FDA stepped in and banded the sales of some of the most popular vaping product. However, some product managers have now found a way around those limitations.

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The Accidental Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Tech product managers have to prepare for restrictions on data sharing Image Credit: If you take a moment to think about it, U.S. tech product managers have actually had it pretty easy. These changes may affect everything that these tech product managers do. However, this may be all about to change.

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The Accidental Product Manager

DECEMBER 2, 2019

As product managers, we all spend our time trying to better understand what our customers really want. We need to understand what motivates our customers in order to better understand how we can provide them with the products that they will be willing to buy. This can be a tricky thing to do. One-Day Delivery: The Next Step.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MAY 23, 2022

Cigarette product managers see change coming and are trying to prepare Image Credit: Lacey Krusmark. Just imagine if you were a cigarette product manager. You are responsible for a product that is both addictive and reviled. Young people seem to getting the message and are less likely to start to use your products.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 2, 2020

So why are the Microsoft product managers so slow to make improvements to Microsoft Office? What this means is that when Microsoft’s Office product managers decide to make a change to their product development definition, they understand that they are messing with fire and may not be able to add this to their product manager resume.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MAY 16, 2022

When they do this, they require special products – things like baby shampoo. Surprise, surprise, it turns out that the market for baby products is huge. They have been around for a very long time and providing baby products is something that they are well known for. What Went Wrong At J&J? So what went wrong at J&J?

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Product managers who want an audience, are going with an old standby Image Credit: Photo by Anete L?si?a Product managers have had to learn to live in a world that is dominated by these firms. So what value does something as old as email provide to product managers? a on Unsplash. It turns out that it is.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JUNE 21, 2021

One of the things that every product manager would like to have would be a guaranteed customer base. We’d all love to know that there was a group of customers out there that really needed our products and would probably always be buying from us. It turns out that there are a few markets that are like this.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 30, 2020

Dunkin product managers are ready to go to war over coffee Image Credit: Mike Mozart. So I’m not sure if you are aware of it, but it turns out that all of the people in the world can be divided into one of two different groups. Traditionally once you’ve picked which group you want to belong to, you will never change your mind.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 28, 2022

If you were a product manager at Walmart’s Sam’s Club , there is one thing that would keep you up at night: Costco. You’d know that your product development definition was broken because the customers that you wanted to come into your Sam’s Club stores all too often were heading over to shop at Costco. Time To Grow Smaller.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 12, 2021

Pop-up product managers have to be quick on their feet Image Credit: Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York. As product managers we are always being told that we need to better understand our customers. In the world of retail products this is especially true. Who is this person you ask?

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Product managers need to find ways to attract customers who avoid stores Image Credit: Kyle Sorkness. This change has hit grocery store product managers very hard. How are grocery story product managers going to accomplish all of this? The Challenge Of Being A Product Manager At Kroger.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 11, 2019

The end can come for a product manager when they least expect it Credit: Bill Selak. So here’s a quick question for you: what is the shortest time that you’ve ever worked at a product manager job? That’s why I was surprised when I got fired after two weeks on the job at my new product manager position.

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The Accidental Product Manager

APRIL 1, 2019

This has created a problem for mall product managers. This has created a problem for mall product managers. Creating and filling a mall with stores used to be a straightforward job for product managers: get a few big stores, get some smaller but still well known stores, and ta-da you had a mall.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Product Managers Who Use Robots Are Doing Well Image Credit: Timothy Neesam. However, as much of setback as these turns of events have been, there are some product managers who are doing well even now. How To Be A Successful Pandemic Product Manager. You never make contact.

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The Accidental Product Manager

APRIL 27, 2020

As product managers, it is our responsibility to use our product development definition to create products that our customers will want. With a little luck, they’ll discover our products, decide to buy them, and then place an order. Are you ready to deliver on this expectation? What Has Amazon Done?

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 27, 2018

Do consumers want to subscribe to cars or own them? Over at General Motors, their product managers have been hard at work trying to come up with ways to change their product development definition and get more people to select Cadillacs when it comes time to buy or lease their next car. The concept is simple.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 15, 2018

Amazon rolled out a product that went away very quickly, who screwed up? All of this success has put some pressure on the Amazon product managers. As product managers we all know what this means – new products. What Was Wrong With This Product. Image Credit: Canonicalized. Paying For School.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MAY 18, 2020

Product managers need to find a way to redefine the brand Image Credit: Arturo de Albornoz. Can you think of any job that would be more delicious than being a product manager for a pizza chain? It seems as though almost overnight what had been a pretty easy product manager job suddenly became very difficult.

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