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The Surprisingly Strong Case for Luck in Sales

Nir Eyal

My wife and I started our first business together in 2003. We sold solar panels in Long Island, New York, which meant making thousands of in-home sales calls. Before we entered a potential customers home, we had a little ritual. We always looked at each other before we opened our car doors and said, Lets go sell a solar system.

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Ask Teresa: How Do You Get Your First Product Job Without Experience?

Product Talk

Back in 2003, I was playing Dungeons & Dragons and created online spell cards. Around 2003 or so, I was playing tabletop Dungeons & Dragons with friends. A Nerdy Example from My Life. While this may not be a commercially viable product, it is a product I created.

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Discovering Solutions: Quickly Determine Which Ideas Will Work (And Which Won’t)

Product Talk

I often compare the online course platform world today to the blogging world in 2003. This isn’t the sexy side of running a business, but if you want to create a great course experience, it’s what’s required given the tools that we have to work with today. So instead of launching new courses, I spent 2021 rebuilding my tech stack.

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Musk’s Takeover of Twitter Reminds Me of PE Tech M&A in 2003, With Some Important Twists

DevelopmentCorporate

The post Musk’s Takeover of Twitter Reminds Me of PE Tech M&A in 2003, With Some Important Twists appeared first on Development Corporate. There are some very important differences however. Will the X super app be the long term savior of Twitter and another huge notch in Elon’s belt?

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The key customer experience metrics to gauge CX success 

Alchemer Mobile

The Classics: time-tested customer experience metrics Net Promotor Score (NPS) Introduced in the Harvard Business Review in 2003, Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a leading growth indicator across industries. This proactive approach enables timely interventions and prevents small issues from becoming larger ones.

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Key Advice and Strategies for Mobile Product Managers

Alchemer Mobile

Introduced in the Harvard Business Review in 2003, NPS is still appealing because it provides one consistent scale to measure customer sentiment over time. The technical skills our respondents possess increased from there, with 25 percent of respondents reporting strong technical skills (i.e. Go beyond NPS as a core KPI.

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Product Management Memory Lane with Alyssa Dver

bpma ProductHub

She summarized her frameworks through her first book, “Software Product Management Essentials”, first out in 2003. In fact, she was among the very first class of the highly regarded Product Management certification from the Association of International Product Marketing and Management (AIPMM).