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Keeping the market in mind: What makes product marketing successful at Intercom?

Intercom, Inc.

That’s why some of Intercom’s first marketing hires were product marketers and why we’ve had a “seat at the table” from the early days of the company. . Product marketing looks different in every company, but one common trend is that many product marketing managers (PMMs) feel undervalued.

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Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy

Intercom, Inc.

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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What Does a Product Marketing Manager Do? 8 Key Responsibilities

Userpilot

What does a product marketing manager (PMM) do? This is the question on the lips of many marketing professionals browsing through opportunities at tech companies. Chances are you already know their broad responsibility is to develop and implement a marketing strategy roadmap for a specific product.

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A modern primer for retaining customers: Strategies from Intercom, Productboard, and FullStory

Intercom, Inc.

It can be quite a challenge to find and address the points of friction that are chasing your customers away. We create our business strategies around driving growth, and look to growth as the key indicator of the health and viability of our companies. “Are you attracting and engaging the right customers?

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Product Portfolio Management & the Strategic Ripple Effect 7 of 10 – Portfolio Positioning Is What Makes Your Product Positioning More Strategic

Product Management University

Even more strategic when customers use both, right? Beyond a healthier balance sheet, why do your target customers care about cash flow relative to their big picture strategy? 80% of your value story is built around things customers do and why they do it, not your products. There’s still something missing though.

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Product Strategy 101: It’s About Depth, Not (Just) Vision

The Product Coalition

Product strategy is one of the most important tasks of the product leader, and definitely one of the hardest things to do. This should be your first step into product strategy. Since product strategy is so hard, many companies simply skip it. Even higher-level goals can be refined and detailed.

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User Persona Survey Template: How to Properly Collect Customer Data in SaaS

Userpilot

Gathering meaningful insight from your customers is a challenge for any product manager: what you need is a handy user persona survey template to help you capture it… We’re here to help! In this article, we’re going to explore how user personas can help you gather and utilize customer insight more effectively.