The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. This has created large amounts of data for running teams. . Those risks can be fatal: Mark has found a 75% failure rate for both Series A and Series C startups (as he presented during his 2019 SaaStr talk.).

Onboarding KPIs

svpg

MAY 2, 2016

Exactly a year ago I was invited to give a keynote at the Craft Conference in Budapest and I discussed the 10 biggest reasons why product teams fail. If you prefer to watch the video (1 hour long), you can find the presentation here. Empowered Product Teams. Second, the chemistry of the members of the team is key.

Research Software

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

This is the recipe for a mediocre sales team. Like a sports franchise, a top team should be both collaborative and competitive. The team has grown quite a lot, but it’s still tiny: we’re now close to 40 people in 13 different countries. On this week’s episode, I caught up with Steli to chat all things sales.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 26, 2019

Product Managers Make all the Decisions. As product managers it is easy to get stuck in making all the decisions. The questions keep coming in and it can feel great to help move your team forward by making the decisions, but they quickly pile up and leave you with no time to consider the bigger picture.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2018

It also stretches product managers to consider their impact on the wider business, by asking them to review their products margins and revenue generating impact. It’s the hardest presentation I’ve ever worked on. State of Product. Typically this would be a cross functional team of C- level and director-level people.

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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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Product Talk

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Hi there, Product Talk readers! We can’t wait to share our latest Product in Practice with you. For this story, we spoke with a product team leading the Digital Hotels vertical at Seera Group , a travel and tourism company based in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Meet the Seera Hotels product team.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Concept testing takes place before the development phase to assess how well the idea could satisfy user needs , while usability testing focuses on how easy the product is to use and navigate and happens during the development stage. Concept testing should be an integral part of product development for a number of reasons.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As product managers, it’s our job to develop solutions that solve real problems for our customers and create value for the business. One effective approach is to use a hypothesis-driven product validation framework to ensure that your efforts are focused on the most important questions at the right time.

User Testing

The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

Everyone knows educating the market is hard to nearly impossible, but people always bring up examples like Facebook or the iPhone whenever I discuss it in my lectures. So what can and cannot work when you want to educate the market? Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation, and rightfully so.

Education

Userpilot

JANUARY 27, 2022

Product churn is a metric that measures how many customers leave your product over a specific period. To calculate the customer churn rate , divide the number of customers lost during the given period by the number of customers present at the start of that period, and multiply the result by 100. Churn Rate Calculation.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 3, 2019

At Tribe Capital , our goal is to be great at recognizing and amplifying early-stage product-market fit. We believe that in order to achieve this goal we need to have standard quantitative approaches to understanding product-market fit. for quantifying product-market fit. The Growth Accounting framework.

User Testing

The Product Coalition

JANUARY 4, 2021

So what can and cannot work when you want to educate the market? Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation. In that context, educating the market means ignoring what the market is trying to tell us, and that really is a bad idea for anyone who wants to succeed.

Education

The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

It took me time to understand that I need to present myself as a product leadership coach and product strategy expert rather than a consultant. But regardless of how I presented myself, that was something that I could easily explain once people approached me. That’s the whole reason VCs invest in startups.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 21, 2020

As Director of Product Management at Mixpanel, an important part of my role is hiring and developing a world-class team of product managers and ensuring that we’re empowering those people to be the best product managers they can be. You already know this: To build a great product you have to have a good spec.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This will change the way that a lot of people think about product market fit, BS metrics, understanding the needs of the people that really matter. Rahul Vohra (Founder/CEO, Superhuman) – The Product-Market Fit Engine from Business of Software Conference. So I’m going to talk about Product-Market Fit.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 28, 2019

They go from planning one product to the next, foregoing the opportunity to establish fundamental product instincts, which only develop after managing the same product for an extended period of time. My article “ 10 Hacks of Customer-Centric Enterprise Product Managers ” dives into this deeper. Which hurts.

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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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Userpilot

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the competitive world of SaaS products, product positioning is definitely something your product marketing team can’t afford to ignore. Product positioning allows you to identify your market niche. As with all marketing efforts , positioning should be driven by the customer and their needs.

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

While software development teams have been moving toward agile methods for years, many product managers are only now becoming aware of it. An agile approach applies collaborative and continuous improvement concepts to software development. It seems that agile teams do everything in a new way.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

AI product management is a unique beast that can be quite challenging, but there are ways to make it easier. Photo by Skitterphoto from Pexels In 2014, at the ProductX conference, I won second place for my presentation on time management for busy product managers. Here’s how. It was a great talk and I gave him my vote as well.

User Testing

Mironov Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

” Product: “We’re endlessly creating and updating demos, decks, product bulletins, release dates/roadmaps, FAQs, technical docs, checklists, cheat sheets -- but Sales hardly uses any of them, and still expresses deep frustration with us.  Sales  There’s something more systematic here.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 18, 2021

In previous episodes, we’ve talked about how customer feedback and cross-team collaboration play a crucial role in the features and updates we build here at Intercom. To understand a bit more about the launch, we’ve gathered some of the folks behind it: Thomas Creighton de Farias – Senior Product Education Producer.

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Mind the Product

JULY 24, 2019

He also encourages us to let go of the need to be right (difficult for many product managers) and enlist our teams to help us answer: What problem are we solving? Brandon Chu , General Manager and Director of Product, Platform at Shopify, gave us insights into the challenges of managing platforms. Who are we solving it for?

Research Software

Userpilot

MARCH 9, 2023

The key causes of customer churn are poor customer support , buggy product, wrong product-market fit, bad user experience, poor onboarding process, high pricing, and long time-to-value. Wrong product-market fit : Your product should meet the needs of your target market and deliver continuous value.

User Testing

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Early in the pandemic, this led me to resent virtual meetings, especially virtual product review meetings. This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively. As a result, the team struggled with how to prepare. Why was this prioritized?”

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

In my first official product role, which I got to after managing large dev teams and a business-related role, I managed alone a product with a development team of ~40 people. One of the first things I did, for example, was to work with the salespeople on how to sell the product.

Strategy

Usersnap

MARCH 19, 2019

Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? In Frost & Sullivan’s survey research on R&D/innovation and product development priorities, 84% of the respondents declare that they employ the voice of customers (VoC) in their product development cycle. Do you consider customer feedback?

User Testing

Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Product Manager : In charge of creating product strategy and overseeing the design process, among other things. What to do before building a team for your SaaS company You can’t just jump into hiring without some forethought, or you’ll make many mistakes.

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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.

Product Marketing

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Here are five quick takeaways: The founders of Spendesk noticed that, while the B2C space was innovating with peer-to-peer quickpay options, nothing like that existed in the B2B space (which often lags a few years behind the consumer market). Instead, focus on fostering a culture of communication and feedback loops between the team.

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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?

User Testing

Userpilot

JULY 29, 2019

Not because of the product itself – but how it was positioned on the market. Lousy context can kill a great product”…What actually is product positioning? Positioning is the context in which you present your product. The most Affordable Social Media Scheduling Tool for Marketing Agencies.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2021

By the way, it wasn’t like I was thinking to myself: “I feel bad, let’s try Facebook because they are supposedly the solution”. If you fall into this category, it doesn’t mean that you need to shut the company down or abandon this product direction. There are usually other, more present problems that you can solve.

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