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How to Give Your Product Managers Negative Feedback (Part 1)

The Product Coalition

Even people with a developed growth mindset?—?ones No one likes to see their gaps pointed to, and for people who don’t have a developed growth mindset, it’s twice as hard. If your product managers don’t have an intrinsic motivation to grow, and you still need them to, you must instill it in them. Really really want it.

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3 Ways To Educate the Market That Actually Work

The Product Coalition

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, and rightfully so.

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From Product Management Back to Strategy

The Product Coalition

In my first official product role, which I got to after managing large dev teams and a business-related role, I managed alone a product with a development team of ~40 people. One of the first things I did, for example, was to work with the salespeople on how to sell the product.

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3 Ways To Educate the Market That Actually Work

The Product Coalition

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. In that context, educating the market means ignoring what the market is trying to tell us, and that really is a bad idea for anyone who wants to succeed.

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Strategic Product Management: The Role of a Strategic Product Manager

Userpilot

Product differentiation and positioning are important aspects of strategic product management because they allow you to build a product that meets the needs of the right customers in the right market and stand out from the crowd. Goals are important aspects of the product strategy. Source: Pragmatic Institute.

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How I treat creative copy like a product—using data

Mixpanel

If you know a thing or two about product development, you’ve heard of the “a-ha” moment. It’s the “pivotal moment when a new user first realizes the value of your product and why they need it,” according to Appcues. It’s also a moment when someone is likely to signup and/or buy your product. It’s incredibly consistent.

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Negative Persona in SaaS: Why You Need to Have One and How to Create It

Userpilot

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. Talk with your sales and customer service teams to better understand your customer profiles.