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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? 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
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. The post A Guide to Product/Market fit appeared first on Mind the Product. 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?” The idea of measuring marketing effectiveness and buyer’s response in.[continue 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. 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. Many people in the technology world mistakenly believe that Agile is something new, but it really isn’t. 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
We expect that these six biggest video marketing trends will dominate in our online reality in the upcoming year. Video marketing is one of the most powerful ways to interact with modern customers in the digital space. MORE
In his ProductTank San Francisco talk, Chris Barton – founder of Shazam and, more recently, Guard – recounts the music recognition app’s successful quest for the Holy Grail: Product/Market Fit. Go After a Big Market Chris explains that to [.]. 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
If you want to conquer the Asian gaming market, South Korea should be on your list of countries to focus on. As the world’s fourth- largest game market, South Korea provides game developers with plenty of opportunities. gamedev south-korea asian-market localization MORE
We covered product/market fit, team culture, careers, diversity, roadmapping and more. The post August Roundup: Roadmaps, Product/Market Fit, Team Culture and More! General Diversity Product Roadmapping Product/Market Fit roadmap Team Culture MORE
Nir’s Note: Gad Saad is a professor of marketing at Concordia University and the author of The Consuming Instinct. In this interview with Max Ogles, Saad discusses the role of evolutionary psychology in modern marketing. The post The Secret Marketing Power of Evolutionary Psychology appeared first on Nir and Far. Behavior Design In Action marketingHe’ll be speaking at the upcoming Habit Summit in April. You can register here!) MORE
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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. Understanding the strengths of your offering, and how it relates to the segments of your market allows you to better guide your investment strategy. MORE
Rapid market and technology changes are driving companies to seek increased product innovation and operational effectiveness to keep up with the pace of change. Only by closing such skill gaps can organizations hope to keep pace with rapid market and technology changes. MORE
In this ProductTank London talk, Janna Bastow – co-founder and CEO of ProPad – shares her view on how you can define and measure your product/market fit. The post What is product/market fit? Product/Market Fit Iteration London market traction ProductTank ProductTank London 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. Product Marketing 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. The Product Marketing Manager is responsible for successfully getting the product off the shelf. Is the market expert. Conducts customer and market research. MORE
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. Outbound (Product Marketing) makes sure that once these products are ready, they get launched and marketed effectively to the target customer base. Product Marketing. 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
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
Marketing and Advertising The first budget expense cut was marketing and advertising. But should a business’s marketing campaign cease in response to the COVID-19 pandemic? Creative Message To be strong in the market is to be present with a message of good faith. MORE
Affiliate Marketing is a rational and flexible sales strategy that creates numerous income streams. Earning through Affiliate Marketing requires: Research into products, web traffic patterns, and follower interests. The post How to do Affiliate Marketing in 2021? 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
Affiliate Marketing is a rational and flexible sales strategy that creates numerous income streams. Earning through Affiliate Marketing requires: Research into products, web traffic patterns, and follower interests. The post How to do Affiliate Marketing? 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. How to Analyze a Market in 4 Steps. 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! CONTEXT! MORE
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. Grow and lead the product marketing team. 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
With digitisation paving its position in every walk of life, marketing has seen a monumental shift in the manner in which it is practised. Digital marketers harness the power of the internet to realize their brand goals. The post Digital Marketing: What does the profession demand? MORE
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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.
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Marketing and Advertising The first budget expense cut was marketing and advertising. But should a business’s marketing campaign cease in response to the COVID-19 pandemic? Creative Message To be strong in the market is to be present with a message of good faith.
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Mind the Product
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
In his ProductTank San Francisco talk, Chris Barton – founder of Shazam and, more recently, Guard – recounts the music recognition app’s successful quest for the Holy Grail: Product/Market Fit. Go After a Big Market Chris explains that to [.].
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In this ProductTank London talk, Janna Bastow – co-founder and CEO of ProPad – shares her view on how you can define and measure your product/market fit. The post What is product/market fit? Product/Market Fit Iteration London market traction ProductTank ProductTank London
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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. The Product Marketing Manager is responsible for successfully getting the product off the shelf. Is the market expert. Conducts customer and market research.
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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! CONTEXT!
The Product Coalition
JANUARY 7, 2021
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? What is Product-Market Fit?
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.
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FEBRUARY 20, 2021
Affiliate Marketing is a rational and flexible sales strategy that creates numerous income streams. Earning through Affiliate Marketing requires: Research into products, web traffic patterns, and follower interests. The post How to do Affiliate Marketing?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. Many people in the technology world mistakenly believe that Agile is something new, but it really isn’t.
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Nir’s Note: Gad Saad is a professor of marketing at Concordia University and the author of The Consuming Instinct. In this interview with Max Ogles, Saad discusses the role of evolutionary psychology in modern marketing. The post The Secret Marketing Power of Evolutionary Psychology appeared first on Nir and Far. Behavior Design In Action marketingHe’ll be speaking at the upcoming Habit Summit in April. You can register here!)
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We expect that these six biggest video marketing trends will dominate in our online reality in the upcoming year. Video marketing is one of the most powerful ways to interact with modern customers in the digital space.
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FEBRUARY 17, 2021
If you want to conquer the Asian gaming market, South Korea should be on your list of countries to focus on. As the world’s fourth- largest game market, South Korea provides game developers with plenty of opportunities. gamedev south-korea asian-market localization
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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?” The idea of measuring marketing effectiveness and buyer’s response in.[continue
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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.
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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. How to Analyze a Market in 4 Steps.
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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. Grow and lead the product marketing team.
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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. Outbound (Product Marketing) makes sure that once these products are ready, they get launched and marketed effectively to the target customer base. Product Marketing.
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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. Understanding the strengths of your offering, and how it relates to the segments of your market allows you to better guide your investment strategy.
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: 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.
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.
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With digitisation paving its position in every walk of life, marketing has seen a monumental shift in the manner in which it is practised. Digital marketers harness the power of the internet to realize their brand goals. The post Digital Marketing: What does the profession demand?
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AUGUST 31, 2020
We covered product/market fit, team culture, careers, diversity, roadmapping and more. The post August Roundup: Roadmaps, Product/Market Fit, Team Culture and More! General Diversity Product Roadmapping Product/Market Fit roadmap Team Culture
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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
Speaker: Steve Johnson, VP of Products, Pragmatic Institute
Product Management is one of the most exciting - and most misunderstood - functions in technical organizations. Is it strategic or tactical? Is it a planning role or a support role? Many product professionals are unclear about what is (and isn't) product management. After all, product management spans many activities from business planning to market readiness. In this session, we’ll examine many product activities and artifacts for product strategy, planning, and growth, and introduce a simple tool that you can use in your organization to clarify the roles of product management and others. Steve Johnson explores the many roles of Product Management in this fun talk focused on why product managers should obsess on problems instead of solutions.
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.
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. Product Marketing
280 Group
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Rapid market and technology changes are driving companies to seek increased product innovation and operational effectiveness to keep up with the pace of change. Only by closing such skill gaps can organizations hope to keep pace with rapid market and technology changes.
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.
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.
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