Product Talk

JANUARY 17, 2024

Sometimes it’s because they’ve personally experienced a pain point and want to address it. Tweet This The Challenge: Converting Trial Users to a Paid Version One use case for ThoughtFlow , a mind mapping integration, emerged based on a user’s pain point. You can submit yours here.

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Product Talk

JUNE 15, 2022

Regular touch points with customers are a pillar of continuous discovery. If you’re not regularly talking directly with your customers, you increase your risk of building a product that no one wants or needs. Regular touch points with customers are a pillar of continuous discovery. Tweet This. Tweet This.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Start by creating onboarding flows that are as unique as your users. Focus your attention on their pain points , needs, and desires. Use welcome surveys to identify users’ jobs to be done and use cases. Finally, recreate the relevant path for new users. The best way to do this is via segmentation.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 29, 2022

How product managers can understand their customers better than anyone else. If you have listened to me before, there is a good chance you’ve heard me say we need to fall in love with the customer’s problem, not our solution. Getting enamored with our solution can distract us from the customer experience.

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The Product Guy

MAY 30, 2019

Hypotheses are only useful if we test them (with customers), to validate or discard them. As an example, our problem statement could be: Customers encounter a series of friction points when embarking on a shopping journey in a large supermarket. By better meeting customers’ needs, we expect to drive our outcomes forward.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Most businesses design customer experiences from the inside out, based on what is best for the company, when they should be doing the exact opposite. Few people are as passionate about customer experience as Annette, the founder and CEO of consulting firm CX Journey Inc. How to put the “customer” in “customer experience”.

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Product Talk

JULY 3, 2024

When we interview customers , our goal is to learn as much as we can about their context. This will help us understand their specific needs, pain points, and desires (otherwise known as opportunities) which will inform our product decisions. Question: What if the story we collect is atypical for the customer?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 1, 2020

Today, customer expectations are at an all-time high. A proactive customer support approach is the key to regaining control. But this approach not only overwhelms your team, it also means customers frequently have to wait hours or even days to get the help they need. What is proactive customer support?

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 1, 2024

How product managers can design their customer experience journey We all want to create products that customers find valuable and even delightful. How can using the customer experience journey help you make better products? Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [2:26] What is the customer experience journey?

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2022

A customer journey can be defined as the interactions a customer has with your brand from the very first time they engage with you to the point of purchase. What are the steps of the customer journey? At each phase of the customer journey there are touchpoints. What is a customer journey map?

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

After every discussion with customers, sales, service, leadership and my colleagues, I was left with a laundry list of problems that needed my attention. As a product manager, my goal is to ensure customer satisfaction, long term success of my product and contributing to the success of my organization.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It’s an organizational issue—moving quickly to beat competitors and keep up with changing customer preferences. When companies take the time to design products that match what the customer needs, profits soar, customer satisfaction (and retention) soars, and employee satisfaction gets a nice uptick too.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

Address Pain Points Proactively: Regularly ask for feedback to show you value their input and are ready to adjust course. Demonstrate Customer-Centricity Stakeholders and teams trust PMs who prioritize customer outcomes over internal demands. It shows youre thoughtful, analytical, and focused on results.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

How do you know that the product you’re developing will actually create value for customers, that they’ll love it, and that they’ll buy it? Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [6:08] What tools or processes do you use for customer research? It’s our job to fix those problems for the customer.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

At JCDecaux, I led the development of an information kiosk for airport passengers. The kiosks are interactive devices that provide concession, flight, point of interest and flight information to the passenger. Passengers can scan their boarding pass on the kiosk and obtain flight, gate and concession information.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Recently, Hope Gurion walked through three scenarios where she argued teams might benefit from including customer segments on their opportunity solution trees. Scenario 1: Uncovering Potential Customers. Finally, the key insight that this team learned was that customer satisfaction across all three roles does not drive retention.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

His answer intrigued me because it identified a clear pain point that isn’t getting enough attention. As the title of this episode conveys, our discussion will weave together topics for aligning customers’ needs and business strategy. 14:27] What did you do to better align customer needs and business strategy?

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Customer support is more business-critical than ever. But in today’s fast-paced world, your customer support can only be as effective as the technology that underpins it. Study after study shows that the vast majority of support teams are unhappy with their current customer support tech stacks. The future of support is here.

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UX Planet

MARCH 9, 2025

This can include user research and discovery, heuristic evaluation, and results of usability testing. Pain points : If youre going to redo the functional logic of your product, you should definitely add customer pain points. Example of pain points that offline shopper experiences.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 19, 2024

“We’re not competitor-obsessed, we’re customer-obsessed. We start with what the customer needs and we work backwards.” – Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon. For product managers, the path to success—both on an individual level and for the company as a whole—depends on a deep understanding of their customers.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 26, 2022

Yes, product and pricing are still important ingredients – but, a great customer experience is the secret sauce (chef’s kiss). Here are 5 ways e-commerce companies can improve their customer experience: Act on customer feedback. Maintain an omnichannel customer experience. Prioritize meaningful customer engagement.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 20, 2020

As customer success managers, we wear many hats. We need to stay on top of market trends and product updates, all while making sure our customers become wildly successful. During times of rapid change, juggling everything on our plates, along with everything on our customers’ plates, can feel like a herculean task.

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Product Talk

JUNE 19, 2024

But when we use generative AI to replace customer interviews , to generate opportunity solution trees , or to do our thinking for us, we fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of discovery. Discovering unmet customer needs, pain points, and desires—AKA opportunities. The opportunities represent customer value.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

These are the customer needs, pain points, and desires that, if addressed, will drive your desired outcome. This is how we’ll evaluate which solutions will help us best create customer value in a way that drives business value. Below the opportunity space is the solution space. But this isn’t Agile. Nor is it continuous.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Without effective UX analytics that goes beyond collecting data, you’re losing valuable customers. Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. But over time, customer needs evolved. I will discuss why in just a second.

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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 12, 2022

One of the biggest challenges that business owners or product managers (PM) face is figuring out what their customers want. Too often, we ask customers what they want, instead of asking what they do. Instead of asking customers what they want, ask them what they do. Your customer is not the solution designer.

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Product Talk

MAY 4, 2022

According to Steve, “The problems that come with that are capturing, organizing, and prioritizing feedback at scale, so that without too much time investment product managers can distill raw data into actionable insights which inform discovery and ultimately drive roadmap decisions.”. Let’s look at each one in more detail. Tweet This.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

And while opportunity solution trees have become increasingly common among product teams, there’s still plenty of room for customization, both in the way you set up your trees and the tools you use to build them. It felt like 10+ years of experience, from customer development to Jobs Theory all in one actionable package.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2022

Creating quality customer experiences has always been important for retaining customers. Now, during this time of economic uncertainty and against a competitive landscape, effective customer engagement is business critical. Discover the top trends transforming customer engagement. But they’re facing big barriers.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 10, 2022

And, as society reopens, it is vital to maintain ease of movement between in-store and online channels – not just for your customers, but for your teams. Great e-commerce experiences for customers are built on speedy responses, instantaneous gratification, and convenience – this is no easy feat to provide. Sense their frustration?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 18, 2021

In previous episodes, we’ve talked about how customer feedback and cross-team collaboration play a crucial role in the features and updates we build here at Intercom. Or rather, two – conversation topics and custom reports. I mentioned at the start our company values: obsessesing over our customer success. Thomas: Awesome.

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Product Talk

APRIL 20, 2022

Sally and Jim are equipped with a clear customer segment profile—first-time podcasters—and a clear value proposition—help them grow their podcast audience. Sally and Jim might set the following directional outcome: increase the average audience size for our podcast customers. Sally and Jim don’t have any customers.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Surveys, combined with open text analysis, however, hold immense potential for uncovering deeper customer insights from customer feedback. In this post we explore how to effectively incorporate open text analysis into your CX survey strategy to unlock those deeper customer insights. Why are we losing customers to competitors?

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Userpilot

APRIL 16, 2025

Your customer information lives in Salesforce, while your support tickets are in Zendesk, your product usage data in Mixpanel, and your marketing campaigns in HubSpot. Data fragmentation prevents you from delivering the cohesive, personalized experiences your customers expect. Sound familiar?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 14, 2020

As customers expect more and more out of support experiences, support leaders can risk burnout on their team to meet the escalating demand. But even for larger teams, an influx of customer questions can overload agents, leaving them frustrated and overworked, and in turn, not able to provide great support.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

It’s no secret that when it comes to support, customer expectations are higher than ever before – but how are support leaders and teams adapting to these increased demands? Nearly two-thirds (58%) would sever their relationship with a business due to poor customer service. Understand how customer expectations are changing.

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