The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). I admit that in the past, I have been soured on “strategy” as a discipline.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

What are the different marketing research methods product marketing teams can use to inform their strategies? You will also learn about different types of market research and how to conduct it step by step. They also enable targeted user engagement and improve the effectiveness of marketing campaigns.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 11, 2023

Photo by Dylan Gillis on Unsplash Market research and user experience research (UXR) are often confused as being the same thing, but they are actually distinct fields with their own goals and methods. To choose the appropriate research method for the business, it’s important to clarify the problem we are trying to solve.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2025

Doug joined us in episode 518 and is back to share battle-tested strategies that will help you fix problems faster and smarter. 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?

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 6, 2024

If there’s one thing product managers and product marketing managers wish they had more time for, it’s market research. Second and even more important, the process of doing market research even if you have a fulltime person doing it, is still terribly time-consuming and inefficient. Summer Intern Anyone?

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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. Causes : A lack of understanding of users and their needs, lack of empowerment of the person in charge of the product, inappropriate growth strategy.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 14, 2021

Market penetration strategies can be defined as an effort of increasing market share for current products or services of the firm by marketing activities. In fact, market penetration has never been an affordable strategy that might burn the company budget in a short time.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

How an AI-powered fashion startup achieved product-market fit Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, we’re joined by Anya Cheng, former product leader at Meta, eBay, McDonald’s, and Target, and current founder of the AI-powered fashion startup Taelor. This led her to explore whether others faced similar challenges.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

How marketing and product management work together. Turns out if you ask 50 different people what marketing is, you’ll hear 50 different answers. That is what our guest did to investigate what people think about marketing and how it fits into the work product managers do. 7:06] How do you describe marketing?

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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. In this article, we’ll explore key ideas and strategies to help you become a better product innovator and manager. But there’s more to innovation than just creating new products.

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Spice Catalyst

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This is the second episode of Product Success Issues covering the first parts of the Product Market Strategy: Values, Vision, Mission Statement, Understanding the Customer, and Innovation.

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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

I look at four dimensions for robust Product Organizations: Product Organizational Design Product Strategy Product Operations Product Culture Inside each of these are a few capabilities that are then broken down further into sub-capabilities that help me pinpoint where the issues are. I review strategies and roadmaps.

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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.

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Spice Catalyst

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

This is the third episode of Product Success Issues with David Fradin, covering Personas, How to do Market and Competitive Research, and the sixteen key significant issues affecting the world that will influence new products and services and changes to existing products and services.

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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.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

Not every company has seen all these changes, but by and large I think it's been a positive push forward and I'm proud of where we've come from and where we have gotten to. -- 2014: "I do not need Product Managers, I can run my company myself,I have the strategy." Product Strategy = Company Strategy in this case.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Understand Your Competitors Through Market Research. In Arunachalam’s case, as he was entering at the late majority stage of the sanitary pad market, he spent a lot of time understanding the strengths and weaknesses of his competitors before deriving his unique selling point – cost effectiveness. Philip Kotler.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

How do you ensure your AI product not only survives but thrives in this competitive market? A well-crafted go-to-market strategy could be your secret weapon. Best-selling author and go-to-market advisor Maja Voje has helped hundreds of companies, including Google and Rocket Internet, build and grow successful products.

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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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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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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

How to Achieve Success in Your Product Strategy In today’s rapidly evolving market, having a clear product vision and a well-defined strategy is essential for the success of any tech product. Meanwhile, a robust product strategy lays the roadmap to achieve that vision.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2022

Case Category: Market sizing & Estimation, Goals & Measures Case Type: Investor pitch by a startup planning to launch smartwatches in India ?? Apart from bringing TAM, SAM, SOM, also get the growth projection for 2–4 years and demonstrate the strategic roadmap while covering the marketing strategy.

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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.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

If you thought there were a million ways to define product management, product strategy might have it beat by a longshot. Just think about how many ways product strategy is defined within your own organization. It’s the number one thing that makes product strategy both challenging and frustrating at the same time. Here we go.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

When I first researched about product management, I asked seasoned product managers how they started and they gave me very different kinds of answers. A lot of them worked in other positions before moving to product management, like engineers, analysts, marketers and project managers, and learned by taking on extra responsibilities.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 19, 2022

However, getting the attention of your target customers with B2B marketing strategies is a lot harder. This article will teach you the difference between B2C and B2B marketing, go over a few B2B examples, and walk through 15 proven strategies that can take your product marketing to the next level!

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The Product Guy

JULY 2, 2017

Think of your product management career development as a new product that is going to be released into the market. In product management you’re schooled to, identify who your customers are; identify a value proposition strategy and to persuade stakeholders of the vision you want to achieve. Who is the target audience/segment/customer?

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Today we are talking about how market segmentation is done and how it impacts product pricing. To help us with the details, a product strategy and pricing expert is joining us, Dan Balcauski. 2:05] What is product strategy? 4:07] How does market segmentation influence product strategy? Dan is the founder of ?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 1 — Seed) A good product strategy is something every company needs. Here is how a product strategy can help you create business results, even when the market is not in your favor. Product strategy is such a vague term for most people.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2024

A successful market entry strategy in the non-alcohol space was one of the critical pillars of the transformational journey into a beverage company. 5:15] What did market research show about why consumers were switching to non-alcoholic beverages? A combination of multiple factors triggered this change in behavior.

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Userpilot

JULY 24, 2024

Launching a product without a well-defined product strategy framework is similar—you risk wasting resources without a clear path to success. So, how do you outline a product strategy framework that is the foundation of product-led growth ? Product strategies help you design and grow your products. Let’s get right to it.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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Userpilot

JULY 31, 2024

In today’s ultra-competitive landscape, your product development strategy is a roadmap that helps you navigate the journey from product idea to market success. In this article, we present a product manager’s guide to creating and successfully executing a product development strategy. Not sure where to begin?

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Melissa Perri

JUNE 29, 2017

A good Product Manager is taught how to prioritize work against clear outcome oriented goals, how to discover and validate real customer and business value, and what processes are needed to reduce the uncertainty that the product will succeed in market. With a Scrum team, you may be more focused on the execution of solutions.

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