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Image credit: Canva The term “Product-Market Fit” can be baffling for a lot of new Product Managers. The phrase sounds great in theory, but in reality, finding product-market fit raises more questions than it answers: What is Product-Market fit? MORE
Educating the market is hard enough as is, but there is one thing without which you cannot succeed. This point is so important that I want to emphasize it once more: you can educate the market to use your product if the potential customers have a strong unmet need that your product can answer. MORE
In honor of International Women’s Day, 280 Group hosted a virtual panel discussion on how trailblazing women paved their way into Product Management. How did you get into product management? Then, I found myself wanting to manage the consulting organization as much as I wanted to do the consulting work, so that’s when I decided to go to Stanford for my MBA. What led me to product management was wanting to see opportunity and to make things happen. MORE
The term product/market fit was popularised by the lean startup movement a few years ago and tends to be something we glibly trot out when referring to a runaway success or a miserable product failure. And what is the product manager’s role in maintaining [.]. MORE
Product marketing is not an exact science by any stretch of the imagination. However, new ways of objectively measuring and optimizing product marketing effectiveness are significantly changing the game. One of the biggest questions that marketing leadership is being asked by executive management is this: “What return on marketing investment (ROMI) is the company getting for the money they spend?” Product Marketing Data Methodology Metrics MORE
Market research, for Product Managers, is an absolute necessity for success. Much of the time, you’ll find that your company has already outsourced your market research to a firm. Different Types of Market Research 1. Are you interested in Product Management? MORE
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? Did the market immediately get it? MORE
Agile Marketing With Development Using Agile innovation for software development may help accelerate and optimize completion of a product. But if marketing is.[continue The post Agile Marketing Using Scrum appeared first on 280 Group Product Management. Product Marketing Agile Customer Needs Research WebinarThis is a guest post by John Armstrong, CMO, Zettaset. MORE
On the surface, solving market problems versus addressing the needs of a market might sound like semantics. Common Practice: Solving Market Problems. You have a product that addresses user needs in a certain market. B2B Best Practice: Addressing Market Needs. MORE
Despite the wild ride that 2020 was for all of us, our team here at Apptentive continued to produce high-quality content for product managers, mobile marketers, and C-suite executives interested in digital transformation. 21 Mobile Product Management Resources. MORE
Can Agile Marketing give you an edge? The past five years have witnessed a sea change in marketing methodologies and processes at a rate that continues to accelerate. Marketers have always been under pressure to demonstrate results with scarce resources, but now those results must be driven by marketing automation and validated by supporting metrics. The post Why Agile Marketing is the Key to Successful Products appeared first on 280 Group Product Management. MORE
At the intersection of product, marketing, sales, and customer success sits an increasingly crucial function in any organization. We can think of product marketing as the driving force behind bringing a product to market, but the responsibilities also extend throughout the entire product lifecycle. While product marketing will look different at every company, there are. Perspectives PM 101 Product Manager Product Marketing Product Teams MORE
One of the core responsibilities of Marketing in an organization is to effectively define and track the marketing segments. Often the temptation to be everything to everyone is great within the organization, yet, the wise marketer and product manager knows that targeting key segments makes for a much greater chance of success. Yet, many marketers struggle with segmentation, either making the segmentation too simple, or too complex. MORE
Here’s how to create business requirements that boost your marketing and sales proficiency. First, remember that the reasons you build new products and features are the same exact reasons the market buys them. Context is the key to creating business requirements that not only give design and development teams clear value targets, but can also be repurposed as knowledge transfer vehicles for marketing and sales. MORE
Bill is recognized as an authority in Product Management, in B2B marketing at all levels, and in strategy. His 25+ years’ experience includes VP Product/Marketing roles within 2, $1B+ companies, within smaller firms, and within a large-scale start-up. Bill also held executive positions at a software development firm and at an award-winning marketing communications agency. He is author of the book: The 21 Rules of B2B Marketing , available on Amazon. MORE
Managing the Interrelated Roles and Responsibilities of Product Managers and Product Marketing Managers. Product Management and Product Marketing Management are complementary roles. It’s often said that a Product Manager has a more inbound focus, while a Product Marketing Manager has a more outbound focus. At 280 Group, we like to put it this way: The Product Manager is responsible for putting the right product on the shelf. MORE
The article is a synopsis of The Phenomenal Product Manager: Chapter One , written by Brian Lawley. We’ll be using the term Product Manager to refer to both Product Managers and Product Marketers. Inbound (Product Management) spends most of their time with engineering teams and customers, making critical decisions and ensuring that everything gets done to bring customer-focused products to market. Customer and Market Research. MORE
Is there a way to quantify the extent to which our organization is truly market focused? Here’s a simple calculation that tells you how well your organization is executing on product, marketing and sales initiatives that will drive growth over the next 12-24 months. MORE
In this talk, Alan Chiu pulls from his experience in product management and as a seed-stage venture capitalist to showcase a variety of case studies on companies who have perfected product/market fit. It’s probably not surprising to hear that there is no silver bullet when it comes to market fit. But exploring your product with a systematic approach like this one can help you understand what the market wants, and how your product fits in. MORE
This month, we presented a webinar from our Product Management Leadership series – No Bragging Required: How Women in PM Can Get the Recognition They Deserve. In a few situations, I have had managers who did not want me to connect with people on other teams. I would ask my manager, a trusted peer and mentor. For those who are new to Product Management, invest in time to lean to speak clearly. I have a manager who does not communicate information. MORE
Is there a way to quantify the extent to which our organization is truly market focused? Here’s a simple calculation that tells you how well your organization is executing on product, marketing and sales initiatives that will drive growth over the next 12-24 months. MORE
In B2B organizations the same concepts apply to product management and product marketing teams for the same reasons. Consider your colleagues in engineering, marketing, services, sales and the executive team to be your target market. Market & Industry Knowledge. MORE
Product experts have tried to tackle this issue but they gloss over the impact a company’s structure and leadership team have on product/market fit. For many consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, product teams report to marketing, sales, finance, or strategy leads. Who owns Product/Market fit – Marketing, Sales, or Business? When product/market fit is owned by business leaders, products are judged by how quickly they can turn a profit. MORE
Contrary to that, the intention behind this framing is to highlight the need for product marketing and product management to always be in lock-step with each other. MORE
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. Product Marketing managers' main responsibility is to communicate the product’s value to the market. MORE
By Jennifer Gridley – Have you ever wondered how different people break into Product Management and why they stay? Would you like advice from great Product Managers on how to do the job well? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you’ve… Career Product Management Product MarketingAre you interested in sharing your story and advice with others? MORE
A lot of people think solutions marketing is just a fancy term for product marketing, especially since the term solution has been so overused. In a product marketing model, products are the star. In a solutions marketing model, the star is the buyer’s vision for success. What Is Solutions Marketing? Think of solutions marketing as the more encompassing, higher-impact version of product marketing. The Value of a Product Marketing Roadmap for Sales. MORE
Although 2020 has made marketing a more difficult challenge for the typical business?—?with Before you get started, read up on marketing strategies so you can be in the know and at the cutting edge of the marketing scene. MORE
“Sizing a market opportunity has always been problematic. The most common academic tool for market sizing is TAM/SAM/SOM. The Total Addressable Market (TAM) is the number of all buyers; Serviceable Available Market (SAM) is the portion of TAM that you can reach with your sales channels; and SOM is your likely share of the market by your sales channels. A market is a known set of buyers, typically a set of people or businesses. Product Marketing MORE
Market analysis is one of the first and most important steps in the success of any business, large or small, products and services. In B2B, analyzing markets for products versus solutions comes down to how you want to view the market – more inside-out or outside-in, the width of your viewing lens and if you need to be more strategic or tactical. 3 Key Differences Between Product and Solutions Market Analysis. The Solutions Manager Role In Its Purest Form. MORE
Storytelling skills for product management and product marketing are essential because without them, the value context (why the market cares) of what you’re building, marketing and selling is completely masked. Take market requirements for example. CONTEXT! MORE
For our next installment of the Women in Product Management Series I interviewed Louise Allen, SVP Product Management and Solutions Marketing at Planview. To read the entire series on Women in Product Management make sure to sign up for our newsletter. How did you get into Product Management? My undergrad was in Business and I majored in Marketing. I started gravitating toward Product Management then. What do you like most about Product Management? MORE
Many Product Managers struggle with writing market requirements that are effective in guiding their engineering teams to build the right solution. Whether you are writing requirements for Agile and delivering user stories for the product backlog or writing a more traditional market requirements document, there is one technique that I have found can be very effective. The post Writing Market Requirements Effectively appeared first on 280 Group Product Management. MORE
This guide to portfolio product management and marketing answers the following seven questions. What is Portfolio Product Management and How Does It Differ From Traditional Product Management? What are the Core Principles of Portfolio Product Management? What are the Key Best Practices for Adopting Portfolio Product Management? Are There New Roles in a Portfolio Product Management Model? What are the Core Principles of Portfolio Product Management? MORE
280 Group
JUNE 18, 2020
Managing the Interrelated Roles and Responsibilities of Product Managers and Product Marketing Managers. Product Management and Product Marketing Management are complementary roles. It’s often said that a Product Manager has a more inbound focus, while a Product Marketing Manager has a more outbound focus. At 280 Group, we like to put it this way: The Product Manager is responsible for putting the right product on the shelf.
The Product Coalition
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Market research, for Product Managers, is an absolute necessity for success. Much of the time, you’ll find that your company has already outsourced your market research to a firm. Different Types of Market Research 1. Are you interested in Product Management?
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Proficientz
DECEMBER 7, 2020
Storytelling skills for product management and product marketing are essential because without them, the value context (why the market cares) of what you’re building, marketing and selling is completely masked. Take market requirements for example. CONTEXT!
280 Group
AUGUST 4, 2019
The article is a synopsis of The Phenomenal Product Manager: Chapter One , written by Brian Lawley. We’ll be using the term Product Manager to refer to both Product Managers and Product Marketers. Inbound (Product Management) spends most of their time with engineering teams and customers, making critical decisions and ensuring that everything gets done to bring customer-focused products to market. Customer and Market Research.
Speaker: Ardeshir Ghanbarzadeh, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Logi Analytics
Making the transition from building your analytics in-house to investing in a third-party embedded solution can be complicated.Watch this webinar with Ardeshir Ghanbarzadeh, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Logi Analytics, for tips on making the transition as smooth as possible, and getting on the right path to better analytics for your app!
Proficientz
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
On the surface, solving market problems versus addressing the needs of a market might sound like semantics. Common Practice: Solving Market Problems. You have a product that addresses user needs in a certain market. B2B Best Practice: Addressing Market Needs.
The Product Coalition
JANUARY 13, 2021
Educating the market is hard enough as is, but there is one thing without which you cannot succeed. This point is so important that I want to emphasize it once more: you can educate the market to use your product if the potential customers have a strong unmet need that your product can answer.
Proficientz
AUGUST 24, 2020
In B2B organizations the same concepts apply to product management and product marketing teams for the same reasons. Consider your colleagues in engineering, marketing, services, sales and the executive team to be your target market. Market & Industry Knowledge.
Mind the Product
AUGUST 28, 2020
The term product/market fit was popularised by the lean startup movement a few years ago and tends to be something we glibly trot out when referring to a runaway success or a miserable product failure. And what is the product manager’s role in maintaining [.].
bpma ProductHub
MARCH 12, 2018
By Jennifer Gridley – Have you ever wondered how different people break into Product Management and why they stay? Would you like advice from great Product Managers on how to do the job well? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you’ve… Career Product Management Product MarketingAre you interested in sharing your story and advice with others?
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280 Group
APRIL 2, 2018
Many Product Managers struggle with writing market requirements that are effective in guiding their engineering teams to build the right solution. Whether you are writing requirements for Agile and delivering user stories for the product backlog or writing a more traditional market requirements document, there is one technique that I have found can be very effective. The post Writing Market Requirements Effectively appeared first on 280 Group Product Management.
Proficientz
AUGUST 6, 2020
Is there a way to quantify the extent to which our organization is truly market focused? Here’s a simple calculation that tells you how well your organization is executing on product, marketing and sales initiatives that will drive growth over the next 12-24 months.
ProductCraft
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
At the intersection of product, marketing, sales, and customer success sits an increasingly crucial function in any organization. We can think of product marketing as the driving force behind bringing a product to market, but the responsibilities also extend throughout the entire product lifecycle. While product marketing will look different at every company, there are. Perspectives PM 101 Product Manager Product Marketing Product Teams
280 Group
FEBRUARY 22, 2017
Agile Marketing With Development Using Agile innovation for software development may help accelerate and optimize completion of a product. But if marketing is.[continue The post Agile Marketing Using Scrum appeared first on 280 Group Product Management. Product Marketing Agile Customer Needs Research WebinarThis is a guest post by John Armstrong, CMO, Zettaset.
Speaker: Mandy Howard, Product Manager, ServiceTitan
Once your SaaS product hits a certain level of revenue, you'll need to change things up to move past the plateau. One of the ways to do this is to move past your core product and introduce new business streams. If you're strategic about your integrations, you can strengthen your ties to your target market. Join Mandy Howard, Product Manager at ServiceTitan, as she takes you through the three key questions that you need to answer to grow your product with the right partner integrations. Whether you're a start-up, or working on a new product in an enterprise environment, you'll learn how to push through to a new level of growth.
Proficientz
AUGUST 6, 2020
Is there a way to quantify the extent to which our organization is truly market focused? Here’s a simple calculation that tells you how well your organization is executing on product, marketing and sales initiatives that will drive growth over the next 12-24 months.
Proficientz
JUNE 3, 2020
Market analysis is one of the first and most important steps in the success of any business, large or small, products and services. In B2B, analyzing markets for products versus solutions comes down to how you want to view the market – more inside-out or outside-in, the width of your viewing lens and if you need to be more strategic or tactical. 3 Key Differences Between Product and Solutions Market Analysis. The Solutions Manager Role In Its Purest Form.
280 Group
MARCH 28, 2017
Product marketing is not an exact science by any stretch of the imagination. However, new ways of objectively measuring and optimizing product marketing effectiveness are significantly changing the game. One of the biggest questions that marketing leadership is being asked by executive management is this: “What return on marketing investment (ROMI) is the company getting for the money they spend?” Product Marketing Data Methodology Metrics
The Product Coalition
JANUARY 12, 2021
Although 2020 has made marketing a more difficult challenge for the typical business?—?with Before you get started, read up on marketing strategies so you can be in the know and at the cutting edge of the marketing scene.
Speaker: Rene Kolga, Senior Director of Product and Marketing, Nyotron
You can learn a lot by studying your product data, but the real magic happens when product managers blend different types of data from different sources. If you want to blend data and intuition to make bold decisions that move your product forward, you'll need to open yourself up to new data sources - but where do you get this new information? Rene Kolga, Senior Director of Product and Marketing at Nyotron, knows the answer: from other teams in your organization! Join us as Rene goes through the different teams you'll find in a B2B organization, how to build a strong relationship with those teams, and what kinds of insights you can get that will benefit your product.
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? Did the market immediately get it?
The Product Bistro
MAY 26, 2016
One of the core responsibilities of Marketing in an organization is to effectively define and track the marketing segments. Often the temptation to be everything to everyone is great within the organization, yet, the wise marketer and product manager knows that targeting key segments makes for a much greater chance of success. Yet, many marketers struggle with segmentation, either making the segmentation too simple, or too complex.
280 Group
OCTOBER 14, 2018
For our next installment of the Women in Product Management Series I interviewed Louise Allen, SVP Product Management and Solutions Marketing at Planview. To read the entire series on Women in Product Management make sure to sign up for our newsletter. How did you get into Product Management? My undergrad was in Business and I majored in Marketing. I started gravitating toward Product Management then. What do you like most about Product Management?
Proficientz
JULY 10, 2020
Here’s how to create business requirements that boost your marketing and sales proficiency. First, remember that the reasons you build new products and features are the same exact reasons the market buys them. Context is the key to creating business requirements that not only give design and development teams clear value targets, but can also be repurposed as knowledge transfer vehicles for marketing and sales.
Speaker: Ian Thompson, Head of Business Intelligence at King, and Zara Wells, Strategic Customer Success Manager at Looker
Product Managers looking to leverage data to make informed product design decisions can learn a lot from renowned gaming company King, maker of Candy Crush and many other games - even if their product has seemingly no overlap with games. King’s product managers rely heavily on analyzing product features using analytics data and visualization to improve outcomes. take on how he guides King’s Product Managers through: How to think through product data strategy.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 10, 2018
In this talk, Alan Chiu pulls from his experience in product management and as a seed-stage venture capitalist to showcase a variety of case studies on companies who have perfected product/market fit. It’s probably not surprising to hear that there is no silver bullet when it comes to market fit. But exploring your product with a systematic approach like this one can help you understand what the market wants, and how your product fits in.
Apptentive
DECEMBER 31, 2020
Despite the wild ride that 2020 was for all of us, our team here at Apptentive continued to produce high-quality content for product managers, mobile marketers, and C-suite executives interested in digital transformation. 21 Mobile Product Management Resources.
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. Product Marketing managers' main responsibility is to communicate the product’s value to the market.
280 Group
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
Can Agile Marketing give you an edge? The past five years have witnessed a sea change in marketing methodologies and processes at a rate that continues to accelerate. Marketers have always been under pressure to demonstrate results with scarce resources, but now those results must be driven by marketing automation and validated by supporting metrics. The post Why Agile Marketing is the Key to Successful Products appeared first on 280 Group Product Management.
Speaker: Nils Davis, Principal, NPD Associates
As a Product Manager, a big part of your job will always be to balance which features to develop, and which to scrap. Don’t miss this surprising webinar from Nils Davis, author of The Secret Product Manager Handbook!
bpma ProductHub
DECEMBER 22, 2017
“Sizing a market opportunity has always been problematic. The most common academic tool for market sizing is TAM/SAM/SOM. The Total Addressable Market (TAM) is the number of all buyers; Serviceable Available Market (SAM) is the portion of TAM that you can reach with your sales channels; and SOM is your likely share of the market by your sales channels. A market is a known set of buyers, typically a set of people or businesses. Product Marketing
280 Group
APRIL 29, 2020
This month, we presented a webinar from our Product Management Leadership series – No Bragging Required: How Women in PM Can Get the Recognition They Deserve. In a few situations, I have had managers who did not want me to connect with people on other teams. I would ask my manager, a trusted peer and mentor. For those who are new to Product Management, invest in time to lean to speak clearly. I have a manager who does not communicate information.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
Product experts have tried to tackle this issue but they gloss over the impact a company’s structure and leadership team have on product/market fit. For many consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, product teams report to marketing, sales, finance, or strategy leads. Who owns Product/Market fit – Marketing, Sales, or Business? When product/market fit is owned by business leaders, products are judged by how quickly they can turn a profit.
280 Group
APRIL 1, 2020
In honor of International Women’s Day, 280 Group hosted a virtual panel discussion on how trailblazing women paved their way into Product Management. How did you get into product management? Then, I found myself wanting to manage the consulting organization as much as I wanted to do the consulting work, so that’s when I decided to go to Stanford for my MBA. What led me to product management was wanting to see opportunity and to make things happen.
Speaker: Nir Eyal, Author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Hooked is written for product managers, designers, marketers, start-up founders, and anyone who seeks to understand how products influence our behavior. Why do some products capture widespread attention while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of sheer habit?
Proficientz
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
This guide to portfolio product management and marketing answers the following seven questions. What is Portfolio Product Management and How Does It Differ From Traditional Product Management? What are the Core Principles of Portfolio Product Management? What are the Key Best Practices for Adopting Portfolio Product Management? Are There New Roles in a Portfolio Product Management Model? What are the Core Principles of Portfolio Product Management?
280 Group
JULY 30, 2018
Bill is recognized as an authority in Product Management, in B2B marketing at all levels, and in strategy. His 25+ years’ experience includes VP Product/Marketing roles within 2, $1B+ companies, within smaller firms, and within a large-scale start-up. Bill also held executive positions at a software development firm and at an award-winning marketing communications agency. He is author of the book: The 21 Rules of B2B Marketing , available on Amazon.
Proficientz
JANUARY 13, 2020
A lot of people think solutions marketing is just a fancy term for product marketing, especially since the term solution has been so overused. In a product marketing model, products are the star. In a solutions marketing model, the star is the buyer’s vision for success. What Is Solutions Marketing? Think of solutions marketing as the more encompassing, higher-impact version of product marketing. The Value of a Product Marketing Roadmap for Sales.
ProductCraft
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
Contrary to that, the intention behind this framing is to highlight the need for product marketing and product management to always be in lock-step with each other.
Speaker: Hope Gurion, Product Leader Coach, Fearless Product LLC
Customer discovery is the lifeblood of product teams to identify the most important customer needs to solve next. Often it's the Product and UX members of the trio who take lead on facilitating this discovery. But what about other customer-facing teams in an organization? How do product teams best partner with these teams to understand customers’ unmet needs and decide which needs to address next?
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