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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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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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Instead, you should engage the stakeholders, leverage their expertise, and generate as much buy-in as possible , as I explain in more detail in my article “ Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People.” ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. Build a product that users love by delivering value and a good product experience.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Gather insights about your customers from internal teams. Leverage product analytics to do a customer behavior analysis and get a better understanding of how customers interact with your product. Perform social listening on social media and review sites to see an unfiltered look at what customers are saying about your brand.

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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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280 Group

AUGUST 30, 2022

My time with Anheuser-Busch was a great learning experience which soon led me to become partner in a Mar-Com firm , leading the creative teams. For a half dozen years , I met with Product Managers who had come seeking creative for their new product launches. But many didn’t actually know what they wanted to say to the market.

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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? The sales team could be a good source of information.

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280 Group

MARCH 24, 2019

These product management professionals worked across 25 different industries, with the largest concentrations in software, manufacturing, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, telecommunications and IT services, and finance and financial services. Simply put, being weak in this area can spell disaster for your product.

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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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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

TL;DR Product analytics is the process of collecting and analyzing data about product usage and user behavior. Product analytics tools empower teams to make informed decisions on how to add more value and offer a better user experience. Pendo is a product adoption platform famous for high-quality analytics solutions.

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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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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

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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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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280 Group

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

I’ve been there—I suspect many other Product Managers have been there too. You’ve stretched your development team to get it done, you’ve practiced your script, you’ve run through the demo a dozen times—it’s all working! Then, despite your best-laid plans for a great product demo—things go wrong. I’ll wait….

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Userpilot

JULY 14, 2021

They are not helping you – the potential user; they are not helping our smaller competitors, who find themselves juxtaposed with enterprise software for a completely different user persona, and it’s not helping us – when we get leads that want something we can’t offer anyway. And neither do Pendo, Appcues, or Product Fruits.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

We had just hired a new VP of Product who was radically (and rapidly) changing our product development process, and our engineers – based remotely, in Argentina – were struggling to keep up. “To Second, and more important, it shows the demotivation and binary thinking that can result from bad or nonexistent communication.

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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

As a Product Manager, at any given time you will be carrying on simultaneous conversations with developers, designers, your product team, data analysts, QA engineers, marketing, sales, possibly your executive team, client success, and of course, your users.

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Mind the Product

MAY 9, 2019

In March last year, my colleague and Mind the Product’s Director of Training, Rosemary King, wrote about how the company departments working alongside a product team could better work together to meet their common goals and to improve working practices. In Marketing, in Product, in Operations… test, learn, test again.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 12, 2023

You can also use UBA data to recommend content and products contextually. Likewise, product marketers use the data to target the right audiences with marketing campaigns. Reduce product churn by finding behavioral patterns among churned users and reach out to existing customers with similar patterns to avoid attrition.

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Userpilot

MARCH 18, 2022

Successful product messages are also made up of ratings or user reviews and quotes either as a part of your content marketing efforts (for case studies) or the product marketing on your website/online stores to build credibility. Consider using Userpilot to help deliver in-app messaging and experiences, code-free!

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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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Userpilot

OCTOBER 18, 2021

There are eight SaaS trends in 2021 that you should be aware of: vertical SaaS, platform unbundling, micro SaaS, artificial intelligence and machine learning, low code (or no code) approach, SaaS integration, mobile optimization, and centralized analytics. To conduct an NPS survey, you can use feedback software like Userpilot.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 4, 2019

We outlined the seven internal politics situations you’ll likely encounter at least once in your product management career and how you can handle them. Situation: You’ve painstakingly constructed a roadmap after consulting with various stakeholders, the development team, and your peers. An Executive Needs a Feature *Now*.

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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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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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280 Group

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Be the Bearer of Bad News. This technique isn’t blatantly obvious—but you always want to be the bearer of bad news. What I mean by this is that you want your boss and management to hear the bad news from you before they hear it from someone else and it becomes a huge problem for them, then they’ll have to call you.

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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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Ask Benny

JUNE 1, 2019

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

AUGUST 10, 2023

Meanwhile, the slow, steady drumbeat of cautious experimentation and incremental enhancements always makes the product better. It’s not sexy and won’t land the leadership team any TED Talks. That means doing your homework regarding market intelligence, product-market fit, technical feasibility, and the like.

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280 Group

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

You can be terminated just because some vice president had a bad day or played his political cards the wrong way. Join Product Management associations. If I have a good detail person working with me we make a great team. Figure out what you and your team are good at and what you all like to do and split up the work that way.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

Building a walkthrough using a dedicated tool is much easier than coding it from scratch. The best walkthrough software on the market is Userpilot. The point of a walkthrough in this instance is to get the new user to experience the value of the product first-hand before they get bored and lose interest.

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Userpilot

MARCH 16, 2024

Is Appcues or WalkMe 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 WalkMe compare when it comes to enabling SaaS no-code growth.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Sentiment analysis makes it possible to compare your product to competitors, evaluate the impact of your product/marketing efforts, and gather actionable growth insights. You can collect feedback for analysis through in-app surveys, online reviews, social media mentions, and customer interviews. Source: G2.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 30, 2023

The product adoption curve is a concept created by Everett Rogers back in 1962 and further developed by Geoffrey Moore in 2014. In SaaS, as you develop your product and achieve product-market fit , you must consider the five user segments so you can improve product adoption and grow your business.

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