The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The product managers at Amazon have a bit of a problem on their hands right now. Google and Apple both have competing products. This means that the Amazon product managers have to do something to make their product unique. Do customers want to trust Alexa with their health data? Image Credit: Jeff Eaton.

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The Accidental Product Manager

APRIL 12, 2021

However, it turns out that for the product managers who work at these food delivery firms, all is not so good. Product managers need to understand that their customers have become spoiled. This means that restaurant and grocer product managers are now rushing to satisfy the exact same demand.

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The Accidental Product Manager

APRIL 10, 2023

Roku product managers are creating an ad-supported streaming strategy Image Credit: Mike Mozart The product managers at the streaming hardware provider Roku had a bit of a problem on their hands. Say Hello To Streaming Ads The product managers at connected-TV giant Roku are betting big on ad-supported streaming.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MAY 8, 2023

With deliveries, sometimes later is better Image Credit: Javi The good news is that your customer has ordered your product. As a product manager, how should you go about dealing with this delay? When a customer orders a product, they’d really like to have that product at the moment that they place the order.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JUNE 22, 2020

Product managers have to overcome hurdles to create AI products Image Credit: Photo by Hitesh Choudhary on Unsplash. If you are a product manager and you really want to make your life complicated, then what you should do is decide to develop a health care product.

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The Accidental Product Manager

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

If you’d like to sign up for a challenging product manager job, then perhaps you’d like to look into what it would take to become the product manager for a mall. Clearly it is time for mall product managers to update their product development definition. Malls Say Hello To The Gym.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 11, 2022

Chinese product managers are trying to win over millions of Indian users Image Credit: Neha Singh. If you were the product manager for a new social media app, what would your #1 goal be every day when you went to work? There is only one answer to that question: to sign up more users for you app. billion people.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MAY 3, 2021

Meal kit product managers need to find new ways to be successful Image Credit: Alyson Hurt. The world that we live in is changing and what this means for product managers is that we need to find ways to change with it. The challenge for the product managers at these meal kit companies is how to stay in business.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 20, 2020

Restaurant product managers are facing one of the toughest times that they have ever had to deal with. Many restaurants are reporting that their sales have fallen by up to 48% from a year ago. What can product managers learn from the changes that are sweeping through the restaurant industry?

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The Accidental Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

However, you wouldn’t be thinking that if you were a product manager who works for the stationary bike company Peloton. When the pandemic is over, how are these product managers going to keep a good thing going? The benefit of the pandemic is that the company was able to report its first quarterly profit.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 5, 2021

Netflix will have to do battle for subscribers for the first time Image Credit: Brett Taylor. I am willing to bet that just about everyone who is reading this is currently a subscriber to the Netflix video service. There is no doubt, Netflix is currently the king of online streaming video services. million subscribers.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Product managers know that people are always concerned about their health. From a product manager point-of-view what is good about all of this worry is that people are willing to buy products that will tell them how their bodies are doing. So just exactly what kind of health care products are we talking about here?

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Home Depot product managers are not giving up in the fight against Amazon Image Credit: Mike Mozart. If you are a product manager working in the field of retail goods, there is one word that should strike fear in your heart: Amazon. The Home Depot product managers have discovered that in the U.S.,

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 22, 2021

As product managers, one of the most important things that we do is to use our product development definition to create products that our customers are going to want. We can place them in attractive packages, we can get celebrities to endorse them, and in the case of food products, we can make them taste good.

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The Accidental Product Manager

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Car manufactures are changing their product development definition and moving more and more of the car’s control and monitoring systems over to these centralized dashboards in order to attempt to simplify the process of driving their cars. Some systems don’t do a good job of connecting to the driver’s cellphone.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 17, 2020

I can only speak for myself, but if I was a product manager who was put in charge of a marijuana product, I would be very, very happy. Think about it, what does every product manager want: we want our customers to want our product. This includes product managers at some of the biggest brewers.

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The Accidental Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Just about every business was shut for a period of time and every product manager had their carefully created product development definition disrupted by the events that were caused by the pandemic. Product managers who work in the fast food business are among the ones who seem to be getting back on their feet the fastest.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JUNE 24, 2019

Can their product managers change its product development definition and bring a once popular TV show back from the dead? However, now the ABC television network is betting that its product managers have the skills that will be needed in order to bring this television show back to life. Image Credit: alogou1775.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 1, 2018

However, things are starting to change for the Apple product managers. What’s a product manager to do? Who wouldn’t want to be able to put that on your product manager resume? A host of new competitors have shown up and are challenging the Apple product managers when it comes to music sales.

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The Accidental Product Manager

APRIL 3, 2017

Comcast product managers have discovered how to get more customers Image Credit: Mike Mozart. If you are a product manager working for a cable company these people are the bane of your existence. If you were a cable TV product manager, what could you do about this bad trend? Just not traditional cable TV.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

I’m pretty sure that by now you’ve heard about “the cloud” – it’s the mythical place where companies can get their programs to run and their data to be stored in such a way that they don’t have to buy any computers or storage systems. There was no reason because they sold software that came on CDs.

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The Accidental Product Manager

DECEMBER 3, 2018

However, what a lot of product managers may not be aware of is that Amazon’s grocery dreams don’t stop with Whole Foods. Instead, they have their own plans about changing their product development definition and finding out what an Amazon grocery store that they built from the ground up would look like.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

TV Dinners are coming back, will product managers be ready? One handy solution that a lot of us often go to is the so called “TV Dinner” – a frozen meal that has all of the important parts of a dinner such as vegetables, meat, and a desert. Is this a meal that product managers could once again make popular?

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 24, 2017

So here’s an interesting question for you: when you customer uses up or runs out of your product, how do they go about ordering more from you? Perhaps this question would be better stated “how hard is it to order more of your product?” The product managers at Amazon sell a lot of products that customers run out of.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Perhaps its time to cut the middleman out of selling your products Image Credit: TruckPR. How does a customer get their hands on your product? If it is like most products, your product development definition called for a middleman to be involved. Firms are reporting that their online sales grew by 30% in 2013.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 29, 2018

The product managers over at McDonalds have a problem on their hands. What’s happening is the company’s flagship product is no longer relevant. What’s a product manager to do? The burgers are offered in a quick, casual service environment. The Problem With McDonald’s Burgers.

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The Accidental Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Theranos is in bad shape, but they have introduced a new product Image Credit: Wikipedia. They claimed that they had invented a product that with just a minute amount of blood from an individual could run a large number of health tests. To be a product manager at Theranos in the early days must have been a great job indeed.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The micro blogging service has over 313 million monthly users (just think about adding that to your product manager resume). This is all very impressive, but a bigger question that the Twitter product managers have to answer is just how many people are seeing all of those tweets? A Loss Of Control.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 28, 2017

By that question, of course, I mean do you use the social networking tool Twitter? However, now it’s looking like the product managers at Twitter might have a problem on their hands…. Recently Twitter reported that its revenue increased 20% to US$602M. What’s Wrong At Twitter. Twitter’s famous right?

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

However, what a lot of us may not realize is that, depending on where you live, Amazon has expanded their product development definition to sell food. Private label brands, or house brands as they are sometimes known, are products that the seller of the groceries creates. Lots of food. What Are Private Label Brands? In the U.S.

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Andrew Chen

MAY 28, 2019

No wonder the consumer investment team ended up digging into this trend by doing a market map report — the analysis led by Li Jin and including work from myself, Connie Chan, and others. I’d be interested in other products that tap into the trends around AirPods, Alexa, voice assistants, etc., Thanks, Andrew.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 2, 2017

In the world of electronic books, product managers are having to modify their product development definition and try out some new ideas in order to see if they can capture more customers. Sounds like a good goal to add to a product manager resume, but how can you make this happen? Image Credit: CollegeDegrees360.

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 3, 2023

How can you support audience tracking with product analytics? What tools can enhance a marketing strategy at scale? Product-led. Table of Contents Intro Build a strong foundation How can you identify the metrics that measure success? How can you lean into the value moment conversion? Build a strong foundation Sales-led.

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 3, 2023

How can you support audience tracking with product analytics? What tools can enhance a marketing strategy at scale? Product-led. Table of Contents 1. Build a strong marketing analytics foundation How can you identify the metrics that measure success? How can you lean into the value moment conversion? Revenue-led.

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 3, 2023

How can you support audience tracking with product analytics? What tools can enhance a marketing strategy at scale? Product-led. Table of Contents 1. Build a strong marketing analytics foundation How can you identify the metrics that measure success? How can you lean into the value moment conversion? Revenue-led.

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Andrew Chen

MAY 28, 2019

No wonder the consumer investment team ended up digging into this trend by doing a market map report — the analysis led by Li Jin, Avery Segal and Bennett Carroccio, including work from myself, Connie Chan, and others. I’d be interested in other products that tap into the trends around AirPods, Alexa, voice assistants, etc.,

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 23, 2020

I had to say goodbye to my product manager job because I got fired Image Credit: Photo by Gift Habeshaw on Unsplash. Exactly How Does A Product Manager Get Fired? What this meant for the company is that they now had a product and, hat’s off to them, they realized that they needed a product manager.

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