The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Far from dictating terms, PMs serve as facilitators, synthesizing input from engineers, designers, marketers, and other stakeholders to ensure that products meet customer needs and business objectives. Product managers don’t wield the top-down authority that CEOs do; instead, they lead through influence, alignment, and empathy.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2025

What patterns emerge about which systems (manufacturing, sales, marketing, etc.) What types of stimulus (patents, academic articles, market research) would be most relevant for your current product challenges? He outlined two main approaches that product teams can implement.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

This article assumes that you are familiar with the product vision board or the key elements of a product strategy : market, value proposition, standout features, and business goals. More Information : Market Segmentation Tips and Strategize , pp. Carry out qualitative market research like direct observation and problem interviews.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 7, 2025

Note that Ive decided not to state the names of the tools I found, partly as the AI landscape is changing rapidly and partly as you should research and select the tools that work best in your context rather than trusting my judgment. [2] 2] Market Research AI-based tools can discover user and customer trends using predictive analytics.

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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?

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

Inability to Scale : Difficulty in scaling operations effectively to meet growing demand or market opportunities highlights weaknesses in organizational design and adaptability. Roadmapping and prioritization are critical for managing resources efficiently, focusing on high-impact initiatives, and adapting to market changes.

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Product Talk

MAY 18, 2022

You might need to get buy-in or support from leadership, you may need to collaborate with user research or data science teams, and you will likely experience some overlap with customer-facing teams like sales, marketing, and customer success. We see similar tendencies on the marketing side. Get in touch here. Tweet This.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Market Analysis Before and With AI Customers are clamoring for a number of improvements to your product and youre on a mission to get them funded and on the roadmap. However, just because customers want them doesnt mean theyre delivering the level of differentiating value your organization needs to meet its own goals.

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UX Studio

JUNE 27, 2024

Research helps answer tough questions, so knowing when and how to use UX research vs market research methods is crucial. In this article we answer: How can you distinguish between different types of research? What characteristics define market research vs UX research?

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

We spot important ideas, uncover customer needs, turn concepts into products or features, and work to increase market share. Introduction: The Role of Product Managers in Innovation As product managers, we’re at the forefront of innovation in our companies. But there’s more to innovation than just creating new products.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 29, 2024

Ulwick realized that if we could predict how customers would measure a product’s value, we could design products to meet those criteria. By understanding and addressing unmet customer needs, product managers can greatly improve their chances of market success. This idea became the foundation of Outcome-Driven Innovation.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 24, 2018

In marketing speak, from the very beginning of the project we wanted customers from both the “early majority” and “late majority” groups, skipping the “innovators” and “early adopters”. Yaroslav Stepanenko, Product Marketing Manager at Setapp.com in front of our early customer acquisition funnel performance stats.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Which market and market segment should the product address? For example, generate revenue or meet a profit margin, reduce cost, or develop the brand? Meeting users and customers, at least in form of a video call, not only helps you validate your assumptions and develop new ideas. What makes the product stand out?

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 3, 2022

They’ve developed an insights platform to facilitate collaboration between market researchers, UX professionals, marketing managers, and product leaders. Something comes up at a meeting and I don’t understand the newest database structure, and I have to dig deep and learn.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Here are four signs that this is the case: Stakeholders , management, or another, more strategic product role determine which features have to be provided and communicate them to you, for example, during a sprint review meeting or in the form of feature requests. [2]

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Userpilot

JULY 1, 2024

Product market research is essential for comprehending your customer base, competition, and the prevailing trends within the industry. Conducting effective market research guarantees that your products are aligned with the marketplace and fulfill the needs of customers. What is primary market research?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How do product management and marketing teams work together to build successful products? Product marketing sits between product development and the market. Its main goal is to bring the product to the market and ensure it’s well-received by the target customers. What is product marketing?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Customer segments enable you to find/understand your target audience and boost engagement, making them an important marketing tool. TL;DR Psychographic segmentation is a marketing strategy that divides the market into smaller groups based on personality traits, lifestyle, social class, attitudes, interests, and values.

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Roy Madden

JANUARY 29, 2021

We are looking for a VP Marketing with a proven track record of driving growth in an early stage B2B SaaS environment. You will be responsible for developing and executing the Feedly marketing strategy. Establish data-oriented practices to optimize performance and continually improve the efficiency and impact of marketing channels.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 29, 2020

Hard skills like market research or roadmapping are important, but they’re not enough. Instead of helping meet a need outside your job, investigate the real cause of that need. Hard skills like market research or roadmapping are important, but they’re not enough. Focus on your core responsibilities.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

This famous line from Field of Dreams is all too representative of how many app publishers face the ‘inessentiality’ of mobile marketing. It’s marketing. Without marketing, even the best apps struggle when it comes to customer acquisition and discovery. App marketing at its most basic. The bad news? The good news?

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

We fundamentally believe chatbots have the potential to transform businesses in two ways: by delivering radical efficiencies, and by helping businesses meet ever-increasing consumer demands. We worked with an independent market research firm to survey a random sample of 500 consumers and 500 business leaders.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Is your company ready to target new markets? What product marketing strategies can you use to increase your chances of success? To answer this, let’s explore: What a market development strategy is. Common methods companies use to enter new markets. Real-life SaaS examples of successful market development attempts.

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Userpilot

JUNE 12, 2023

Marketing surveys let you understand brand perception, analyze customer sentiment , and identify improvement areas. TL;DR A marketing survey uses well-crafted questionnaires to gather information about your target audience and their sentiment on your company and competitors. Typeform – best for long-form market research surveys.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

How do product managers identify market gaps? TL;DR Market gaps are the disparities between what customers need and want , and what the market can deliver. A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2024

After graduating, he worked with organizations like GfK and Ipsos  — big names in consumer insights and market research. You’re now trying to capture a market of people who need to understand how their consumers shop and what they look for. But we also have a research consulting team.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 1, 2024

Product marketing is the process of bringing a product to market, and a well-curated product marketing strategy is key to understanding customer needs and driving adoption. TL;DR A product marketing strategy is a roadmap for how a new product will be positioned, priced, and marketed. Let’s dive in!

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

To understand the way support leaders are thinking about automation, we worked with an independent market research firm to survey a random sample of 404 customer support leaders across both B2B and B2C industries in several sectors, including retail, healthcare, and technology. A note about methodology.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In this article, we included the best tips and advice for product marketing managers (PMMs) on how to launch a product, along with various tips that can help your process go smoothly. Both Product Marketing and Product Management teams need to work together. Market Research. Go-to-market strategy. Advertising.

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Userpilot

JULY 10, 2024

Businesses invest heavily in product marketing through webinars, blog posts, and video content for a reason – it gets them notable results. If you’re looking to start or improve your SaaS product marketing strategy, this is the article to read. Both are vital for SaaS success. If you want to know more, book a demo now !

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The team shares how they defined a new outcome and mapped out the opportunity space when COVID-19 ground international travel to a halt in 2020 and they were forced to discover a new market. How could they quickly discover a new market? Meet the Seera Hotels product team. Want to check out the other posts in this series?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2022

Why are marketing data insights critical when making strategic business decisions? With marketing insights, product marketing teams can locate marketing channels that bring the most valuable customers. Product managers can use marketing data to improve customer experience. What is marketing data?

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UserVoice

JULY 28, 2017

Aericon has a post on its blog about how they use Asana for product management – we here at UserVoice are also a fan of keeping tabs on marketing projects via Asana. Good Ole’ Google Docs . Horowitz makes a great point- product managers are in a strategic role.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 10, 2022

Are you wondering about the difference between the Minimum Viable Product vs Minimum Marketable Product? MVP reduces the time to market and allows a quicker release of the product. A Minimum Marketable Product (MMP) is a more developed version of the MVP and it is ready to be sold to customers. If so, you are in the right place!

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

She has a relentless focus on finding good markets, a strong sense of urgency to ship a product, and the track record to show that her process works. Instead, I just kept my focus on the market, learning as much as I could about the problems I was trying to solve—I’d let myself get frustrated with them. It’s the same for the market.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 13, 2023

It involves a set of activities that are performed to bring a new product or service to the market. The process starts with an idea and ends with launching the product in the market. Product Development includes various stages, including research, design, prototyping, testing, and launch.

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