Userpilot

JANUARY 17, 2024

The most common challenges that hinder SaaS growth are lack of product-market fit , ineffective sales and marketing strategies , customer churn, and long product development cycles. Provide the necessary training for your sales teams. Optimizing your marketing strategy to cut costs.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Tough market conditions would cause your sales to dramatically drop or even cease. On one hand, that’s expected in a rough market, but is that really the root cause? In many cases, an economic downturn simply reveals your already existing weaknesses since they now have more impact.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 19, 2020

The Associate Product Marketing Manager (APMM), program is Google’s global, renowned early-career program, which was started in 2003 by Marissa Mayer at a similar time she started the Associate Product Manager (APM) program. It was designed to help build future business leaders in the Marketing organization at Google.

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Most product companies have a few things in their roadmaps that are specifically for single customers – I call these sales one-offs. Good estimation and busy technical team are the keys to success. So I see product companies succeed by shipping standard products , and selling those identical bits many times to many customers.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

How to prepare for a user interview, all the way to sharing the results with your team. The skill of running effective user interviews is key to defining your target users, finding product-market fit , growing your product, figuring out what to build next — or just simply understanding how users perceive your product.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 2, 2022

If you’re in product marketing or product management, you’re likely familiar with the concept of user personas and buyer personas. These terms might even be used interchangeably in your organization to describe a product’s customers. There are four main types of user personas used in the product development world.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

You can either use AI models trained on generic data, like OpenAI, or custom models trained on your own data. If you integrate an existing model into your product, like most SaaS companies, it won’t be enough to outperform your competitors. When integrated well, AI can enhance the product experience for customers.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Aspiring product marketers – are you worried about nailing your product marketing manager job interview? Whether this is your first product marketing job or if you're moving to a new company, product marketing interviews can be intimidating. Let's get started.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Aspiring product marketers – are you worried about nailing your product marketing manager job interview? Whether this is your first product marketing job or if you're moving to a new company, product marketing interviews can be intimidating. Let's get started.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Startup Product managers are in charge of setting up the foundation for product management at a new company. Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. According to Airfocus , an optimized product manager boosts profitability and sales, by 34.2

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Photo by Tolga Ulkan on Unsplash When I joined Twiggle as their first VP Product I was the thirteenth employee. Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. Little did I know that creating a solid product strategy takes such a major chunk of the product leader’s time.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. You’re investing resources in hiring and training the right people, tracking different metrics at different stages, adding more and more complexity with each increase in headcount, use cases, and customers. For Natasha, the answer is a resounding yes.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

It can also serve as a source of invaluable feedback for product development. You’ll also need to hire the right individuals for your customer support team and invest in training them and providing them with the tools for success. These loyal customers are also more likely to recommend your product to others.

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Product Management University

MARCH 14, 2017

The primary purpose of a portfolio strategist is to identify strategic and operational business goals of the target customers to establish value parameters for the products and the problems they’ll need to address. The end result is products with lots of features for everyone and few closed-loop solutions for any one market segment.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

When your product can do more than it could do before, that sounds like a good thing. Added functionality, new capabilities, a more robust feature set…these are the talking points product marketers salivate over and executives search for on product roadmaps. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Aspiring product marketers – are you worried about nailing your product marketing manager job interview? Whether this is your first product marketing job or if you're moving to a new company, product marketing interviews can be intimidating. Let's get started.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This means you can save time and money developing features customers really care for and reduce risks of undesirable effects on your customers. In addition, this person works closely with the experimentation teams to ensure that they are aligned with the overall business objectives, measure results objectively and follow best practices.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

TL;DR A product launch checklist is a list of all the actions to complete before, during, and after releasing a new product , feature , or update. New product launch checklist: Conduct market and customer research to assess the competitive landscape, identify unmet customer needs, and assess demand.

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Pragmatic Marketing

OCTOBER 18, 2019

A Three-Question Process for Product Team Success. How do managers take what their teams have learned and turn it into something tangible? How do those team members take that knowledge and apply it to their roles? Listen in as we discuss Lori’s three questions that include: What is my market opportunity?

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Pragmatic Marketing

OCTOBER 18, 2019

A Three-Question Process for Product Team Success. How do managers take what their teams have learned and turn it into something tangible? How do those team members take that knowledge and apply it to their roles? Listen in as we discuss Lori’s three questions that include: What is my market opportunity?

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Enterprise Sales and Solutions Teams… Are paid/rewarded/promoted for working with individual prospects or customers one at a time.  Sales  Sales teams get quota relief from closing individual deals, not market segments.  Integration  Where else can we make this product fit?

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Innovatemap

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

When features are added on features over time, the information architecture becomes tangled: features and workflows become hard to understand and difficult to train, and it’s easier for users to make mistakes. Your product and engineering teams are fighting fires constantly and do not have the bandwidth to think about the future.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. This article explores multiple aspects of product management. Mushrooming of training sessions and certifications on PM reflects the situation quite well. .

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Gainsight

MARCH 19, 2020

Let’s start by acknowledging that Customer Success teams always have the coolest people in the company. They develop a deep understanding of the customer’s problems and how the company can offer a better overall solution. So why are Success leaders often second-class citizens on the executive team?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 30, 2023

Offering educational webinars showcasing the value of your product, like Userpilot. Providing live demos that include proper training for users and make the product stand out, like Airfocus. Giving access to premium features during the free trials so users can experience the full potential of your product, like Toggl.

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Gainsight

MARCH 9, 2020

Let’s start by acknowledging that Customer Success teams always have the coolest people in the company. They develop a deep understanding of the customer’s problems and how the company can offer a better overall solution. So why are Success leaders often second-class citizens on the executive team?

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Gather insights about your customers from internal teams. Reduce churn and increase customer retention Customers churn because products don’t fulfill their expectations. By understanding their challenges and pain points better, you can tailor your product, training, and experiences to their specific needs and retain them.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Services companies (aka custom development, agencies, outsourcing/nearshoring, contract engineering, consultancies, any work-for-hire) primarily market/sell the time and expertise of their people.  Work  (“Our AI-based tech support lookup product will cut your support costs by 25-35%.”)

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As usual, you really had to be there but here are the Sigmacorn notes… 9:00 Mark Littlewood: Opening remarks Welcome to BoS! How will we win?

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Userpilot

APRIL 26, 2024

Creating a customer journey map can help your SaaS customer success team identify key AHA moments for them to drive customers towards. Customer success teams are your first line of defense in ensuring users accomplish their JTBD (job to be done) so don’t hesitate to invest in employee training. Book a demo to learn more.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 1, 2022

To grasp the full picture of your software adoption process, you need to calculate other metrics such as the activation rate , feature adoption rate , and product stickiness. Userpilot is the most cost-effective product we know that can make software adoption easier for you. What is software adoption? Software adoption curve.

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Userpilot

MARCH 18, 2021

Customer Retention Strategy for Your Marketing & Sales Departments How to Build Products Designed for Retention The Role of Product Marketers in Customer Retention The Customer Support Strategy Why Is The Data You Collect So Important to CS and Retention? Marketing and sales are the engines of your growth.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Next, he set up a crowdfunding campaign to check if people would be willing to pay for the product. To find out how the product should work, his team built clickable prototypes , and to ensure CXL offered a state-of-the-art learning experience, he interviewed the best marketing instructors.

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Userpilot

MARCH 15, 2022

An effective go-to-market strategy includes a selling strategy, pricing model, target audience, and most suitable channels for marketing your product. Focusing on the proper metrics at this stage is crucial to how successful or bad your GTM plan will be. What is a go-to-market (GTM) strategy? GTM strategy.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Community managers, sales teams, marketing managers, and more could provide much insight into a product's users. Without this first-hand knowledge and understanding of your product, you won't be able to develop or improve your product as much as possible. But, remember, first impressions are everything.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Many product people know that rushed development can kill the final release. In this case, negotiations between Atari and Universal Pictures/Steven Spielberg over the rights to the film were only completed in July 1982, leaving only 5 and a half weeks for development in the push to release the game in time for Christmas.

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