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How Can Product Managers Stop Copycat Products?

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Copycats can only be stopped if other people stop selling them Image Credit: [cipher] The goal of every product manager is to create a popular product that our customers want to purchase. If our product becomes too popular, there will be other companies that start to make copies of our products.

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Product Managers Want To Know: Does Scarcity Work?

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Product managers want to know if telling their potential customers that there are limited supplies of a product really works. The Concept Of Product Scarcity Any of us who have bought a book on Amazon or made other online purchases are familiar with the message: “Only 2 left in stock – order soon.”

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Product Managers Prepare To Tap Into The Superfans

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Clearly, for the product managers who promote musicians this was a major setback. Clearly, for the product managers who promote musicians this was a major setback. However, product managers are never stopped for long and virtual concerts that were delivered online were then quickly created.

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Product Managers Find A Way To Turn A Profit

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The WhatsApp product managers may have come up with a way to make money Image Credit: Marina Stroganova. So just imaging this scenario: you are the product manager for a wildly successful mobile application. As a product manager, how would you go about transforming your free-to-use service into a money making machine?

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What Should Product Managers Tell Customers About Deliveries?

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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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Product Managers Want To Know: Do Suggestions Help Move Products?

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Is making a product suggestion a good thing? Image Credit: Hash Milhan As any of us who have gone shopping online know, online retail sites often make product suggestions based on our browsing history. A table was set up with 10 baskets, each with a different product, each priced at 10 cents. So what was the result of the study?

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Product Managers Race To Capture The Indian Streaming Music Market

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If the user subscribes to the music streaming service, they can listen to music from one specific artist or a specific set of songs. Product managers at other streaming services need to realize that Indian consumers are flocking to Gaana, analysts say, because it has been built for them. Image Credit: Gabriel Jorby.