Userpilot

MARCH 15, 2024

Is Appcues or UserGuiding the best tool for no-code growth? And is there a better in-app onboarding software that would better fit your needs? With so many alternatives on review sites, it’s a bit tricky to really choose one. TL;DR Let’s explore how Appcues and UserGuiding compare when it comes to enabling SaaS no-code growth.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 27, 2022

If speaking realistically, product churn is inevitable for SaaS companies but decreasing churn by just 5% can cause your profit to rise as much as 25-125%. That means you shouldn’t aim for zero churn but to drive revenue up to a point where it surpasses the amount you lose due to churn. Customer Churn vs. Revenue Churn.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and the go-to-market side (sales, marketing, customer success) of tech firms, especially at B2B/enterprise software companies.  That

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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

JUNE 30, 2022

While everyone talks about product-market fit, finding product-customer fit is equally important when it comes to engaging the right customers and driving success. You’ve achieved product customer fit when your product and its functionality help the user get their job done in the easiest and fastest way.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Especially in B2B/enterprise software companies, I see two dramatically divergent ( incompatible ) worldviews that IMO explain a lot of corporate behavior. Enterprise Sales and Solutions Teams… Are paid/rewarded/promoted for working with individual prospects or customers one at a time.  Sales

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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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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

In my experience, there’s usually a fundamental misalignment between two broad groups at software companies – especially B2B/enterprise companies — that I’ve been thinking/writing for a while.  One On either side, it’s easy to assume bad intent or have this get personal.  Almost

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test Before Investing In Ideas Let’s analyze the advantages of MVP-based software development. Why should you invest in MVP development? You can successfully prevent these problems by starting software development with a Minimum Viable Product (MVP).

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Mind the Product

APRIL 24, 2018

I joined Setapp as a product manager in January last year, at the same time as the company was launching its main product. Setapp provides Mac users with a way to use and discover new apps, and developers with a new way to reach customers and generate extra revenue. We didn’t know know if our sales predictions were good or bad.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Employees routinely say that the best places to work are some of the big tech companies. To help figure out which internship program (and workplace more generally) is right for you, we created this list of the 8 best tech internships in 2022. This is not necessarily a bad thing by any means. Let's take a closer look: 1.)

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Userpilot

APRIL 7, 2023

When your product is catering to other businesses, it can be difficult for sales reps and other teams to understand the needs and experiences of the clients, especially if the client company sells multiple products. However, customer insights can help your teams understand all aspects of your B2B partners.

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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

MARCH 23, 2018

I was then told I need to understand product market fit , if I was to truly appreciate how the lean model is applied throughout the product lifecycle. And to that end, one of my biggest objections to many of the products on the market today, is that there is no discernable difference between them.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Before founding Viable, he held senior leadership roles in engineering, technology, and product. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [2:25] What is the qualitative data you have found useful for making product management decisions? This is a very manual process, so few teams decide to do the work. [4:22]

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2020

We all learned that Product Management is not just about managing products really. We manage everything from product launch, forecasting, planning to product marketing and sales and when things change drastically Product Managers are expected to be agile and stay on top of technology tools to save the day.

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Userpilot

MARCH 22, 2021

The world of software is crowded with a variety of product marketing tools that are ‘supposed’ to transform your workflow. Product Marketing tools that can add real value to your business do exist, but finding the right software in such a noisy environment can be challenging. What Is Product Marketing?

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. Inspired by Marty Cagan contains a little about everything in product management and is based on how the most successful tech companies in the world build products.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

It defines, communicates, supports, and improves important operations which can be standardized, such as communication, planning processes, team gatherings, and training. What product ops is. How it’s become a critical function for scaling effective product teams. What Product Managers do. Supporting onboarding.

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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. Each customer may get unique software, and pays the full cost of supporting that unique stuff over time.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Can marketing resource management help streamline your product marketing processes and workflows? The marketing department is one of the most crucial in any company. This article highlights how marketing resource management helps streamline processes, organize resources, and enhance workflows for better results.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

I’ve written a lot about the huge organizational and technical gulf between services companies and product companies.  (See 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.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 22, 2021

2022 will be the year of data in product – Product Managers will become more and more data-driven in their decision-making, and will offer more personalized product experiences based on user behavior data. This will allow PM to build personalized product adoption experiences on the fly.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 5, 2024

When working with Leo’s team, the launch preparations will take on average around 10 hours, versus 50 to 120 hours when managing the campaign entirely in-house. It’s tempting to see Product Hunt as the golden ticket to startup fame. .” A huge thank-you to Leo for sharing his hard-earned wisdom.

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TurnKey Labs

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

It’s typically due to one or more key factors, such as a lack of preparation and planning, poor understanding of the target customer’s needs, and/or not developing a product or service that adequately solves customer pain points (which is more commonly known as not achieving “product-market fit”).

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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?

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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. Why is product positioning important? What are the stages of product positioning?

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In this article, we look at each product's key features, use cases, strengths, and limitations. TL;DR Heap is a digital insights platform that allows product teams to track user behavior in mobile and web-based applications. This allows product teams to group users who meet certain criteria. How does it work?

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Whether your product finds a market or falls flat, your team needs to understand why this outcome occurred. In my years as a product manager and product leader, I’ve seen many product teams draw the wrong conclusions from both failures and successes. In fact, those can be the costliest misjudgments.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Guest Post by: Stef Orzech (Mentee, Session 5, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Alex Berman]. So, I’ll start with this: a little while ago, I was having a difficult video call with my tech lead. But rather than pressing for answers, my tech lead simply sat back in his chair and shrugged. “Ah, What do you mean?”

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2021

If your customer engagement levels are not where they need to be, maybe it’s time to look at the customer success software you’re using again? Without a top-quality customer success platform at your team’s disposal, you’ll struggle to help your users get maximum value out of your tool. Customer success teams don’t have time to waste.

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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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People-First Product Leadership

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As you can likely guess if you’ve been following this newsletter, I fall on the side of favoring collaboration as being a key area of focus for performance reviews. Performance is considered at a team, scrum or project level. Introversion or extroversion are irrelevant as its the work of the team that does the talking.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2022

Take a look at these nine indicators to determine if product management is the right career for you, or not. digital product management positions have never been more pervasive or idolized than they are right now. Every other day I seem to come across several new articles describing how to pass the infamous product manager interview.

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Usersnap

MAY 19, 2022

Think of product-market fit (PMF) as sailing: the product is the sail and demand is the wind. For the boat to work or to make your dreams come true, you need to build a sail (product) and find the wind to power it (or satisfy the needs of the market, and its potential customers). Everyone is going to love it.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is just one of the software development frameworks that implement agile and there are many others including Kanban, extreme programming, lean software development and more.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Whether your product finds a market or falls flat, your team needs to understand why this outcome occurred. In my years as a product manager and product leader, I’ve seen many product teams draw the wrong conclusions from both failures and successes. In fact, those can be the costliest misjudgments.

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