The Product Coalition

JULY 25, 2021

Product management requires you to master so many different skills, that there always seems to be a gap between what you do well and what you need to do well to succeed. As a manager of product people, it is your job to help them with this continuous growth, but it’s not always easy. The answer is, of course, yes?—?most

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 4, 2021

Everyone knows educating the market is hard to nearly impossible, but people always bring up examples like Facebook or the iPhone whenever I discuss it in my lectures. So what can and cannot work when you want to educate the market? Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Women are still underrepresented in the Product Profession – with only 33.3% of US Product Managers being female in 2021, according to a metastudy of 30 million profiles conducted by Zippia : Source: [link]. Melissa Perri – Speaker, consultant, and teacher in Product Management. CEO of Product Labs.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

If you’re wondering what strategic product management is, you’ve come to the right place! In the article, we’re looking at the responsibilities of strategic product managers and how they can use data effectively to shape product strategy and deliver delightful experiences to users!

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Most of our readers would have heard of Agile product management. In fact, the biggest advantage that you can leverage from a startup perspective is Lean product management (‘Lean’ or ‘LPM’). This is why it is important to follow a set of principles that can help you manage your product’s lifecycle better.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Whether you’re still validating your SaaS product idea or launching a new feature to an existing product line, thinking about your Go-To-Market Strategy is always relevant. In fact, iterating your strategy and improving each feature Go-To-Market plan as you grow and receive customer feedback is even more important.

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Userpilot

JULY 5, 2022

For those who are more intermediate/have begun their careers in SaaS – be sure to join us in our annual Product Drive Conference, held in October. We’ll be discussing topics spanning from Product Management, Product Marketing, to Analytics and Leadership. Product School. Product lifecycle.

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Userpilot

JUNE 13, 2022

We covered the best blogs on SaaS growth, product marketing , UX analytics, venture capital, and sales. The Userpilot blog provides well-researched, in-depth articles on user onboarding, product growth, product growth, user experience, and so much more. Why are blogs one of the best ways to learn SaaS marketing?

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Pragmatic Marketing

MAY 23, 2017

When someone calls the product manager CEO of the product, what does that mean? The product manager as CEO of the product sounds powerful and strategic. It brings to mind strong leadership skills, influence and accountability, all key traits of successful product managers. Product-Only Focus.

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I Wonder The Value

JANUARY 4, 2017

What is marketing? According to Wikipedia , “The American Marketing Association has defined marketing as “the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large”. Those are correct.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

How do you make sure your product marketing team is actually working toward success? By using product marketing OKRs to guide strategy and track progress. Leading industry online publications talk about marketing OKRs in general, looking at the acquisition stage of the journey only. Product marketing OKRs vs KPIs.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2022

From a marketing standpoint, it first seems like a negative persona shouldn’t be a major worry. Sure, every product marketer appreciates the importance of knowing their ideal buyer personas to help cultivate the right leads. A user persona represents the individual who benefits the most from using your product.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Within each product team there is a product manager, up to eight developers, quality assurance, and – where appropriate – a team-dedicated product designer. The product managers drive the team roadmaps according to set objectives aligned to company objectives, as well as the product strategy overall.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 12, 2023

It’s a scientific study in human psychology and empathy, the science of knowing what words will help people understand and connect with your brand and product. You wouldn’t build a product without doing customer research and validating your idea. Don’t write marketing copy without understanding the customer and their pain points.

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All About Product Management

JULY 9, 2010

I was being interviewed for a Product Managers position by a Chief Operating Officer (COO) who used to do the job that I was interviewing for. The company has adopted and really embraced scrum so naturally expects the Product Manager to take on many of the Product Owners responsibilities.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The SaaS sales cycle takes 84 days on average but can be shorter (around the 40-day mark) if your product is priced below $5,000. Creating a user persona will help you target the right prospects and later use the same data to segment your in-app marketing. Let’s take a closer at each model’s unique sales process.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Table of Contents The problem with defining product-market fit In search of quantitative indicators of product-market fit 6 things about measuring product-market fit 1. With that in mind, product-market fit is a spectrum 4. Once you find product-market fit, it’s not static 6.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

it’s much trickier in the world of products. The roles of Product Manager, Product Marketer and Product Owner (if they all exist in your company) will all vary depending on what senior management have seen before, what other roles exist, the types of product and the size (or maturity) of the company.

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Userpilot

APRIL 22, 2024

Examples of product-led growth companies that can help you achieve PLG success include: Hubspot offers a free grader tool to attract potential customers. Miro uses an optimized pricing model that caters to different market segments. Basecamp offers a free trial to generate product-qualified leads.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 14, 2023

And the transition is already happening, as 88% of marketers think first-party data is more important now than a couple of years ago. But since most online advice is either generic or meant for ecommerce businesses, where can you begin as a product marketer working at a SaaS? It’s evident that businesses will start using it.

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Pragmatic Marketing

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Hello and welcome to the Pragmatic Live podcast series where we tackle the biggest challenges facing today's product management, product marketing, and other market and data driven professionals with some of the best minds in the industry. I'm a principal product marketer here at HubSpot.

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Pragmatic Marketing

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Hello and welcome to the Pragmatic Live podcast series where we tackle the biggest challenges facing today's product management, product marketing, and other market and data driven professionals with some of the best minds in the industry. I'm a principal product marketer here at HubSpot.

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NextBigWhat

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Blitzscaling: An execution framework that prioritizes speed over efficiency and allows a company to go from “Startup” to “Scaleup” at a furious pace that captures the market. Product-Market Fit: PMF is achieved when your users love your product so much they spontaneously tell other people to use it.

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Userpilot

MARCH 29, 2024

There are different types of brand activation campaigns, including experiential, digital, guerilla, and word-of-mouth marketing , among others. To create a successful activation strategy , you must first define your product's value proposition. Ahrefs uses video marketing to reach relevant audiences.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

I never had any plans to be at one company for that long, but I just kept doing new and different things there – I started in product management and then did a combination of product management and marketing and design. Then, I moved to Intuit and worked there for 14 years. So huge, huge growth during that time.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

For today’s episode, we’re sharing go-to-market insights from past interviews that have resonated with us. Intercom’s own Des Traynor, Paul Adams and Emmet Connolly on aligning product and sales. Salesloft CMO Sydney Sloan on aligning sales, marketing and support. Then I tried to reorient them and give them back to marketing.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 26, 2016

Shawn Anderson & Shane Corellian: Alternative Marketing, or “Oops I Did A Marketing” Ayat Shukairy: Why “Customer First” Fails & What To Do About It. Rahul Vohra: The Product-Market Fit Engine. Andrus Purde: The Evolution of a SaaS Marketing Team. Talks from BoS EU 2014.

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

While software development teams have been moving toward agile methods for years, many product managers are only now becoming aware of it. And a product manager is now called a Product Owner … right? Companies adopting agile methods know that product teams need a voice representing the customer.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

All of their data would run through our technology because at the other end of that there are brands and businesses that really wanted to understand what was happening on social media; what was happening around their brand, their industry, their market. The first one is market relevance. We also drove a huge amount of inbound.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 29, 2022

Paul Adams shared three incredible new products that will take your Intercom experience to the next level: Surveys, Switch, and our next-generation Inbox. We are dedicated to building the best, most innovative products on the market to drive the most impact for you, our customers. Our platform is a unified system.

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Revulytics

OCTOBER 19, 2017

A few members of our Marketing team recently attended HubSpot’s Inbound 2017 conference in Boston, one of the year’s largest events for marketing professionals. As product managers, much of our role involves evangelizing our product roadmaps to people outside of our immediate team.

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