The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Finding counterfeits is half the battle Image Credit: cce Just imagine if you were a product manager who was responsible for a very popular product. Perhaps this is a fashion product or a high tech product that everyone wants. As a product manager part of your job would be to put a stop to this kind of thievery.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

When customers cut back on spending, product managers have to go to work Image Credit: CafeCredit.com. What this means for product managers is that we need to make some changes to our product development definition in order to appeal to our newly price conscious customers. Keeping Customers As Times Get Tough.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

So product manager, what does your product look like? No, I mean when your customer first has a chance to get their hands on their version of your product, what does it look like? You do realize how very important first impressions are, right? You do realize how very important first impressions are, right?

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JANUARY 10, 2022

How much to charge and how to charge for it are video game questions Image Credit: Thomas Hawk. Just exactly how are video game product managers going about pricing their products? How Much Should A Video Game Cost? More and more customers are asking themselves why are some games so expensive?

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MARCH 13, 2023

Pay-TV product managers are losing customers Image Credit: Mike MacKenzie So here’s a question for you. Sure, you could pull four or five channels off the air using an antenna, but if you want the really good stuff you need to subscribe to a provider. Product managers at large cable and satellite companies lost about 5.5

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 25, 2021

So product manager, how do you measure how successful you are being? If you are like most of us, if you are always on the move and always have things that you need to be doing you are probably feeling pretty good about how things are going for both your product and your company. What are they doing wrong?

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Can product managers successfully promote e-cigarettes using social media? When you think about all of the products that product managers are responsible for, there are a number of them that come to mind as being “difficult” products to successfully manage. Image Credit: Lindsay Fox.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 9, 2021

Product managers start to bet on smaller grocery warehouses Image Credit: BG Montifar. Grocery product managers are starting to face a real problem. What this means for these product managers is that the old way of doing business, building more grocery stores, is no longer going to work in the future.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

Clearly, for the product managers who promote musicians this was a major setback. Clearly, for the product managers who promote musicians this was a major setback. However, product managers are never stopped for long and virtual concerts that were delivered online were then quickly created.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

GM’s Product Managers Have Run Into A Battery Problem Image Credit: Frank Hebbert. So I’m willing to bet that you are pretty proud of your product. This is all fine and good as long as the product that you are delivering is truly high quality. The product managers still intend to launch 10 EVs in China.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 6, 2023

The ease of doing this is one of the challenges that product managers are facing these days. Online product managers realize this and they are currently looking for ways that they can stand out from among all of the other sellers who are online. Since it is so easy to do, everyone seems to be doing it.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 26, 2021

Product managers are starting to discover that something that we may have stopped thinking about in this digital age is still very, very important. What this means for product managers is that store shelves are still a very important place for our products to be. The Power Of Store Shelves.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MAY 1, 2023

Product managers want to know if telling their potential customers that there are limited supplies of a product really works. The Concept Of Product Scarcity Any of us who have bought a book on Amazon or made other online purchases are familiar with the message: “Only 2 left in stock – order soon.”

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 21, 2023

A treatment for Alzheimer’s was botched Image Credit: Diverse Stock Photos The one thing that every product manager would love to have would be a product that everyone needed. Over at Biogen, their product managers thought that they just might have such a product. What went wrong?

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The Accidental Product Manager

MAY 15, 2023

Image Credit: Being a product manager is a full-time job. The Problem With Algorithms Product managers know that it’s one thing for algorithms to set prices. Product managers are increasingly using algorithms to help them set prices for such things as plane tickets, gasoline , ride sharing and a range of other goods.

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The Accidental Product Manager

APRIL 10, 2023

Roku product managers are creating an ad-supported streaming strategy Image Credit: Mike Mozart The product managers at the streaming hardware provider Roku had a bit of a problem on their hands. Now just exactly how could they go about turning this windfall into a profit for their company?

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APRIL 5, 2021

Pity the poor product managers at McDonalds! However, the competitive fast food market in which they are competing is changing and this means that McDonalds has to make changes to their product development definition and get better at what they are doing. What changes will their product managers make?

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The Accidental Product Manager

MAY 8, 2023

With deliveries, sometimes later is better Image Credit: Javi The good news is that your customer has ordered your product. As a product manager, how should you go about dealing with this delay? How often should you do this? How is this going to make them feel?

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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

MAY 22, 2023

Is making a product suggestion a good thing? Image Credit: Hash Milhan As any of us who have gone shopping online know, online retail sites often make product suggestions based on our browsing history. Across 10 studies, researchers investigated how consumers react when they are being observed while deciding whether to make a purchase.

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The Accidental Product Manager

APRIL 26, 2021

If there is one new product that is currently red hot, it would be food delivery. What are the Amazon product managers doing wrong? Products that they order are not available and so substitutions are being made. Amazon’s food delivery service is not living up to customer expectations Image Credit: Mike Mozart.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Schick product managers have a plan to win more customers Image Credit: Tom Fassbender So just exactly how much time do you spend each day thinking about shaving? Over at Schick their product managers want us to start spending some more time thinking about how we are going about this whole shaving thing.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 20, 2023

Walmart product managers think that they know how to compete with Amazon Image Credit: Ben Schumin Let’s face it: being a product manager at Walmart is both the best of worlds and the worst of worlds. They think that they know how to do battle with the likes of Amazon. What should they do about this?

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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. How would you feel about taking on a challenge? 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.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Or would you try to serve all of your customers no matter how they came to your business? Or would you try to serve all of your customers no matter how they came to your business? Restaurant product managers are facing this very problem right now. What’s a product manager to do now?

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Do online reviews of products really matter? Image Credit: Gayla Baer-Taylor In this digital age in which we are living, we create our product using our product development definition and then our customers can purchase our products and then go home and write a review of it. This review can be posted online.

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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. They have a real challenge on their hands and they need to find out how to make their new business be financially successful. Product managers need to understand that their customers have become spoiled.

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The Accidental Product Manager

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Is it possible that new sources of data will help product managers in hard times? Your best laid plans for how you were going to boost the success of your product at the beginning of the year got turned on their heads. Product managers have to be ready to act upon what the data is telling them.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Chick-Fill-A product managers are riding the wave of breaded chicken demand Image Credit: ccPixs.com. What is the Chick-fil-A’s product manager’s secret to success? The chain now consists of roughly 2,400 stores which would look good on anyone’s product manager resume.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

If you enjoy a cup of coffee in the morning when you are at home, just exactly how do you go about making that cup of coffee? This way of making coffee has become so popular that the product managers at Keurig have started thinking about branching out. How To Make A Better Cocktail. homes, declined in the fourth quarter.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This customers desire for an at home Covid-19 test created a marketing frenzy and that’s when the product managers stepped in. How To Create A Winning Pandemic Product The product managers at Abbott Laboratories have been able to create the dominant Covid-19 at-home test.

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The Accidental Product Manager

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The WhatsApp product managers may have come up with a way to make money Image Credit: Marina Stroganova. So just imaging this scenario: you are the product manager for a wildly successful mobile application. As a product manager, how would you go about transforming your free-to-use service into a money making machine?

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Product Managers bet big on breakfast and Covid-19 has changed everything Image Credit: sstrieu. The product managers at fast food restaurants thought that they had a sure thing to bet on: breakfast. The product managers at fast food restaurants thought that they had a sure thing to bet on: breakfast.

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MAY 17, 2021

Product managers are starting to view the smaller towns as the next battlefield now that they are already entrenched in the big cities. How will they change their product development definition in order to capture these new customers? Now food can be delivered no matter where a customer lives Image Credit: Paul Townsend.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JUNE 20, 2022

Product managers have to provide their customers with what they want Image Credit: Thomas Hawk. You would think that being a burger product manager would be a fairly simple job: you get the burger, you make the burger, you sell the burger. Product managers at least 10 major U.S.

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