Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Laura Jones is head of product marketing at Uber and recently participated in an AMA on influencing the product roadmap via Sharebird , a place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. PMMs need to take the time to understand PMs’ needs and pain points. Influencing the Roadmap.

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Ronke PM

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Table of Contents What is customer-centricity? Essential customer experiences to consider. Final thoughts Those products that have changed us and made our lives easier, or even enhanced humanity, have that impact and reach because the people who built those products emphasize customer-centricity above all else.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As a Product Lead, I continuously emphasize to our broader team the importance of defining personas so that we’re clear about who we’re targeting when shaping our product or positioning. I’ve found a big piece of getting this right is keeping those of us on the development side as close to our customers as our support or sales teams.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Why do product managers need them? That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes. As companies scale, they often cannot satisfy customer needs equally well.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 10, 2024

Subscribe now What is product sense At a high level, product sense is understanding what makes for a high-quality product for your customers (empathy) and having strong, validated opinions about what solutions will be successful (creativity). How do you identify and interpret key data points to achieve product-market fit?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 5, 2020

So, what’s the difference between a Product Manager (PM) and a Product Marketing Manager (PMM)? Both Product Managers and Product Marketing Managers often work very closely together and share project ownership, they generally have different sets of responsibilities that require different skill sets.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 25, 2022

Have you recently been invited to a product marketing manager interview? One of the best and first things you should do is review the most common product marketing interview questions and answers. Product marketing managers play a critical role in bringing new products to market.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Their responsibilities include product discovery, developing product vision, prioritization , roadmapping , analyzing product performance and its iterative development, and leading the product team. Product marketing sits between product development and the market. What is product management?

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Usersnap

JUNE 2, 2022

Customers want good products and services, of course, but do you know what else they want? Recognizing and improving upon this customer feedback is where a CES survey comes in handy! Recognizing and improving upon this customer feedback is where a CES survey comes in handy! What Do We Mean By Customer Effort Score (CES)?

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 2, 2022

If you’re in product marketing or product management, you’re likely familiar with the concept of user personas and buyer personas. These terms might even be used interchangeably in your organization to describe a product’s customers. However, user personas and buyer personas are distinctly different.

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Ronke PM

AUGUST 16, 2023

Table of Contents Technical Support Customer Success/Relationship Managers Marketing Sales Team Data Scientist Finance UX Researcher UX Designer Content Designers and Conversational Designers Engineering Legal Security (IT) PMO (Product Management Office) (Bonus!) This act helps me to put myself in the customers’ shoes.

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Gainsight

JULY 12, 2023

As Customer Success (CS) matures and enters a digital era, operations have never been more pivotal. CS teams are charged with perfecting a seamless omnichannel customer experience throughout the entire user journey, while working at peak efficiency. (No No pressure!)

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

It’s 2023, and customers have options. This makes it more important than ever to create products people actually want to use. The expert speakers at Product Drive 2023 will answer these and many more questions. The event is for anyone responsible for driving growth for their product. But how do you do that?

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

When I started working as a product manager, I understood that identifying and defining the problem is a crucial first step before even thinking about solving it. After every discussion with customers, sales, service, leadership and my colleagues, I was left with a laundry list of problems that needed my attention.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

Product managers often use skills like strategic thinking, user research, product prioritization / backlog grooming, data analysis, and communication. Most importantly, effective product managers spend time doing product discovery , the process in which new ideas are iterated and validated with actual customers.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

A project manager is focused on the completion of a specific project, whereas product managers focus primarily on the long-term vision and evolving a product to deliver value over time. Product teams are staffed with various skilled professionals. Champions a customer-centric approach. Drives product success.

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Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Customer experience strategies shouldn’t be created in a vacuum, but it’s hard to know how to create a CX strategy that exceeds customers’ expectations without first understanding them. We hosted a CX-focused panel at this year’s Customer Love Summit. Christopher An-Traumer, Product Manager at Premera Blue Cross.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

TL;DR A product team structure describes how the business organizes experts from different roles and functions to deliver successful products. The responsibilities of product teams include facilitating product discovery , launches and releases , customer onboarding , feature adoption, and account expansion.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

They already had an established product and regular rituals that helped them consider their users. Through a combination of leadership buy-in, reading, and coaching, they committed to mapping opportunities and testing assumptions before jumping to solutions and found new ways to truly put their users first.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

Meanwhile, the slow, steady drumbeat of cautious experimentation and incremental enhancements always makes the product better. It’s not sexy and won’t land the leadership team any TED Talks. Yet the customer experience continually improves while KPI targets come into view. So you want to make those chances count.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

Brian Chesky of Airbnb sparked a lively debate last year by questioning the role of product managers in today’s fast-evolving business landscape. He stated, “Airbnb has morphed its product management function into an “Apple-style product marketing function.” Aligning Product Vision and Strategy 2.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

From a Product Management and Strategy viewpoint, I believe internalizing this fear of failure drives some of the best outcomes for the organization and its customers. I will also do away with the notion of a “Product.” Markets need solutions. it has to be something the customers find valuable.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

In her classes, she teaches a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery that helps product teams infuse customer input into their daily product decisions. In 2021, Torres published her book “Continuous Discovery Habits” on how to foster the habits of sustained discovery in product teams.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Organizations create Customer Success teams to increase Net Revenue Retention, and we’ve recently published research showing that NRR drives valuation. Organizations create dedicated roles to continuously improve CS functions to improve NRR or reduce costs by scaling up your customer base with the same CS headcount. Your VP of CS?

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Historically, we’ve asked product teams to deliver a fixed roadmap typically defined by leadership. As we evolve toward outcomes, we are asking product teams to deliver performance. It’s not just about shipping features, but about creating value for both our customers and our businesses. Tweet This. Tweet This.

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Let me jump right in: With product analytics, customer retention isn’t just something you measure after the fact; it should be something you can learn to predict (and then improve). How could a product manager possibly dig into the data and pull up something that’s genuinely useful for activation and retention?

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 10, 2022

She cofounded the Radical Product Thinking movement of leaders creating vision-driven change, along with authoring the book Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [1:56] 1:56] What put you on the path to being a product leader?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Some think customers will see the advent of AI as a welcome way to get self-help quickly and get back to their task. Others worry that AI will worsen the customer experience as more and more companies use it to save costs. He joined me for a conversation on tackling issues that come up as you scale your customer experience.

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Gainsight

JULY 27, 2022

SaaS brands are now leaning into product-led growth (PLG), using the product to continuously engage customers and drive more efficient acquisition, retention and expansion. It also allows brands to focus sales and success teams on the later stage of the customer journey to drive stickiness and enterprise-grade expansion.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

We then jammed those models into our platform so that customers could access the outputs in many ways.” While these products have been successful on the market, Lisa has learned that “For data science in particular, building the trust of the marketer into the product has to be a top priority. Tweet This.

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Antwak Blog

JANUARY 29, 2021

Be a Marketeer – Use frameworks to gauge the perfect product-market fit. Be an Architect and an Interior Designer – Build and design products that address consumer pain-points effectively and transpires into a practical and scalable solution. Leading with influence but without enforcement.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Product Manager (PM) & Product Marketing Manager (PMM): The Product Doppelgangers Photo by Kaleidico on Unsplash Try Googling for ‘product management vs product marketing’, you will see several results around this topic. Product marketers are like restaurant managers.

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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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Talk to Users & Customers ?? Become Deeply Familiar With the Product ?? Customers are the lifeblood of your business. At the end of the day, customers are your rock. They influence everything you'll create and ship as a successful product manager. What makes their product(s) different?

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

Meanwhile, the slow, steady drumbeat of cautious experimentation and incremental enhancements always makes the product better. It’s not sexy and won’t land the leadership team any TED Talks. Yet the customer experience continually improves while KPI targets come into view. So you want to make those chances count.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 25, 2021

This month, we’re focusing on all things Product Leadership. Before we start diving into the ins and outs of leadership in Product Management, it’s important to ask and to understand what we mean by Product Leadership. they’re in a Product leadership role. they’re a thought leader.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Whether you need a product launch manager or not depends on the size of your organization. Large organizations frequently releasing a lot of products will benefit from their expertise. Before the release, the product launch manager is involved in market and customer research. Product launch manager job description.

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