The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2021

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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Userpilot

APRIL 16, 2024

In SaaS, a product experience strategy provides the building blocks for making customers stay, engage with your app, and eventually become loyal advocates for your product. So what strategies can help you elevate the user experience? What is a product experience strategy?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? We also look at: What a UX design strategy is Why it’s important Its core principles and elements A practical example of a company with well-established UX strategies Let’s dive right in! The strategy should also have information about the UX team, processes, and guidelines.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 16, 2018

Guest Post by: Marissa Fong (Mentee, Session 5, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Bill Gourlay]. Product management requires product strategy. What are your customers’ needs? These are all key questions addressed as part of product strategy. How do you best solve for these needs?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Customer insights provide intelligence and analysis about customer experience, activities, and preferences. Therefore, they are vital for effective product strategies and ensure resource allocation aligns with customer needs. Analyzing customer service data to identify common issues and queries among new users.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 16, 2023

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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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

TL;DR Market gaps are the disparities between what customers need and want , and what the market can deliver. A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Your colleagues, especially customer-facing ones, can offer valuable insights into unmet user needs and shifts in the markets.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

A user needs analysis conducted with product analytics data lets you build products that address user pain points and exceed their expectations. In this article, we dig deeper into what user needs analysis is and how you can get started with it. Let’s take a look at its key benefits.

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Userpilot

MARCH 10, 2024

Cohort analysis enables you to see how different segments engage with your product. Feature and event reports help you dive deep into the performance of individual features and custom events. A/B tests help you test two or more variations of UX to find the one that’s better aligned with your users’ preferences.

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Userpilot

JUNE 30, 2023

Looking for the voice of the customer questions to understand your users, analyze the market, and unlock growth opportunities? In this article, we will cover the voice of the customer methodology. VoC surveys help you make better product decisions, remove friction , build customer trust , and minimize future negative feedback.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The outcome-based roadmap focuses on delivering value to customers instead of obsessing about building specific features. It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. As companies scale, they often cannot satisfy customer needs equally well.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Have you ever wondered why a Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy is required when you launch a product or service? Regardless of the outcomes, I realized that I loved building businesses; However, during that time, we didn’t know anything about Go-to-Market (GTM) strategies or how to apply them when one wants to launch a product or service.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

TL;DR Digital product experience encompasses all customer touchpoints and interactions with a digital product across its lifecycle. It’s also not the same as user experience. Product experience management helps to: Enhance the entire customer journey and deliver personalized experiences.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 24, 2022

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.

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Userpilot

APRIL 16, 2024

Create data-driven product strategies – End-user behavior analytics takes the guesswork out of product development. Whether you want to release a new feature or launch an upgrade, you can use a ton of data to make user-centric decisions. They give you an overall idea of customer experience.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 9, 2024

Instead, I believe that AI will have the most profound impact on the high-level (and historically most valued) skills of product management: developing a strategy, crafting a vision, identifying new opportunities, and setting goals. That sounds a lot like a tool that would be incredibly good at identifying a clever strategy.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Compare this to a product like Apple’s AirTags, which address the issue of finding keys and other misplaced items. Such a product is also referred to as a painkiller , as it addresses a problem or pain point. But no matter how a product is classified, it must create value for its users—or it is doomed.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Throughout my product management years, I have led full rewrites of the technical documentation (in different companies and for various reasons), and although it was a huge amount of work, the result was an asset that the company could rely on for many years to come. I have worked with great technical writers, they weren’t the problem.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

This means better outcomes for everyone: from the teams we work with to, more importantly, our customers. product marketing team. Involve PMM in the entire product process (or: it’s not all about launches). Ultimately, it helps us to deliver better products and marketing. This covers four general areas.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 3, 2022

Product-centric and customer-centric approaches shift the emphasis away from pure technology innovation and project-based management. It’s not about chasing every short-term dollar or squeezing every ounce of profit from every product. Product-centric organizations. Customer centricity.

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

Learning to Embrace Conflict These product leaders will tell you that conflict within multi-purpose teams often stems from a lack of communication and understanding of the product or feature's purpose. Leaders must ensure their teams understand how their work impacts customers and the organization.

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

Cultivating user trust is critical to the success of any long-term product strategy. It is also one of the central goals of the user experience design process. It also explores 15 strategies that help UX designers build trust in potential users. But, trust is a difficult concept to define or quantify.

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

Fear not though, as our product management software guide will give you insights into some of the best-in-class applications that will boost your team performance and help you build successful products! Roadmapping software visualizes and plans product development over time, facilitating coordination and alignment across teams.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 29, 2023

And the product launch remains a crucial factor in determining overall success. You may solve the customer’s most significant pain point with a feature you just released, but how will the customer know about it? We’re looking forward to turning your next product launch into a success!

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

Yet the customer experience continually improves while KPI targets come into view. Alternatively, how can we let our current customers suffer and miss out on easy wins just to chase after something that might not even work and won’t generate meaningful revenue for years? This portfolio approach is baked into everything VCs do.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Close your eyes for a minute and imagine a strategy. In Michael Porter’s books, or anywhere else, I haven’t been able to find many examples of what a strategy should look like. Here’s a proposal: open any book on strategy and go to the Index. Here’s a proposal: open any book on strategy and go to the Index.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 3, 2019

This is Part 3/18 in the series “How to Build an Innovative New Product or Company” on the topic of over-investing in the “4 Steps to Develop a Strategy” I was introduced to a medical device company recently. They have created a product that allows you to do blood analysis faster and simpler than any other product out there.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Product management involves analyzing user experience , so a product manager needs to be able to use a range of techniques to do it effectively. Identifying the key touchpoints and mapping out the user journey at all stages of the customer lifecycle is another essential skill.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In the article, we’re looking at the responsibilities of strategic product managers and how they can use data effectively to shape product strategy and deliver delightful experiences to users! Product strategy defines who we are building for, what to build, and how to build it.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

Perform a SWOT analysis, identify the strengths and weaknesses of your top competing products, etc. Use ChatGPT as a brainstorming partner for product ideas , feature ideas, product names, etc. Task ChatGPT with identifying and formulating the best pricing strategy for your industry.

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Userpilot

JULY 20, 2022

It also outlines its stages, looks at the House of Quality, and how to make sure the Voice of your Customers is heard. Quality Function Deployment (QDF) is a framework that helps teams translate customer requirements into technical requirements, and design the product and processes needed for its development. Are you ready?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 23, 2023

One of the first things you should do in your new role is to take stock of the current state of the product and its market, which means getting to know your team, customers, and competitors and analyzing any available data on product performance and market trends.

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Gainsight

JULY 25, 2023

In the fast-paced digital landscape, delivering exceptional customer experiences has become a crucial aspect of any successful business. Companies that prioritize understanding their customers’ needs and preferences are better equipped to build strong, lasting relationships. this first blog post is where you’ll want to start.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

A project manager is focused on the completion of a specific project, whereas product managers focus primarily on the long-term vision and evolving a product to deliver value over time. Product teams are staffed with various skilled professionals. Champions a customer-centric approach. Drives product success.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Brilliant meeting so many new people and catching up with so many Receptive customers too. It was called: F Customer Feedback Video will be available soon too. F Customer Feedback Hello, I’m Hannah Chaplin the CEO at Receptive. However, customer feedback is actually a huge opportunity for your business. It matters.

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Product Beautiful

AUGUST 24, 2016

Ultimately, you may be wasting your time manning a booth when you could be making events more beneficial to your team, your company and even your prospective customers. So, what can we do to rethink event support and create events that actually benefit the product team? Talk about your customers’ problems. Here’s a start.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 5, 2023

TL;DR The CAC payback period measures the time it takes for a company to recover the money invested in new customer acquisition. This metric helps SaaS companies choose the most effective customer acquisition channels , diagnose inefficiencies in customer retention strategies , and inform pricing decisions.

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