The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products.

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Userpilot

APRIL 28, 2022

Onboarding software is in high demand for SaaS product managers , and with good reason – the market is booming. This article is going to dive into the Appcues vs Pendo debate and try to answer a key question… Which is the better tool for driving customer success? The main differentiator?

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In this blog, we’re going to take your through the market-leading product tour software and solutions out there so you can choose the one that suits you best. Too many product tours are passive, untargeted and ineffective. Beyond the Software – How to Get the Best Results from Product Tours.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 11, 2024

Subscribe now Chatbot tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity are quickly becoming de facto co-pilots for product managers. And 85% are using one weekly 🤯 Robert Bye, a PM at Figma, shared a common sentiment: When was the last time a new tool went from non-existent to daily use for the majority of product managers?

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 14, 2019

Not surprisingly, when you’re looking for customer validation for B2B products, there simply aren’t as many datapoints to draw from in enterprise product management as there are for consumer products. Aspiring enterprise product managers often tell me that collecting a robust customer sample is difficult.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 29, 2023

Let’s focus on a specific subset of product waste: building capabilities that are readily available from non-competing SaaS vendors – which we could rent at 1-5% of the cost of building them ourselves.  Renting  Renting (licensing) means we can put more of our own effort into market differentiators.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Ladislav Bartos Product Manager, Gumtree.com.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 14, 2024

Userpilot Product Drive is an annual conference for product folks organized by Userpilot. It features known and respected speakers from the SaaS industry who share insights, strategies, and best practices to help product teams build and grow successful products. Userpilot Product Drive 2024 talk categories.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

How to choose the right product team structure for your SaaS? We also look at: Responsibilities of product teams Key roles you may want to include Different ways to structure your team Examples of different structures Let’s get right to it! Userpilot is a growth platform with advanced feedback and analytics functionality.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2019

The best way to advance your product management career is to develop yourself. In this article I want to introduce you to the 6 best platforms for attending these courses. Every platform offers a variety of product management courses. You can decide between two different plans (Team and Enterprise).

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Reducing the CAC payback period can help SaaS companies boost their financial performance and drive growth. This metric helps SaaS companies choose the most effective customer acquisition channels , diagnose inefficiencies in customer retention strategies , and inform pricing decisions. Book the demo to see how! What is CAC payback?

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Birst BI

DECEMBER 18, 2018

According to Gartner, more than 3,000 CIOs ranked Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics as the top differentiating technology for their organizations. If BI and Analytics is such a game-changer, then why is the average adoption rate in organizations only 32%? But the industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 2, 2019

Product are products, yes? When we talk broadly and generically about product management, we assume that all products/services are similar enough that we can apply the same tools, techniques, financial planning models, design approaches, goals and metrics. To answer threats from software-only competitors.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

Many companies expect product managers, designers and other roles to be able to deliver good user interviews, but the training is often by trial-and-error. I compiled this guide back when I was training product managers on my team to be able to run user interviews. question to keep digging. Why does this even matter?

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 3, 2022

Engineers are always looking for ways to differentiate themselves. One of those niches that’s become more valuable in recent years: product analytics. Spearhead a slick analytics implementation. From the perspective of many engineering teams, product analytics is treated as a second-class citizen.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Moving from project-based thinking to product-based thinking is an essential part of delivering a successful digital transformation. What are the benefits of taking on such an initiative, and how does product management give you the best possible chance of success? How Does Product Management Enable Digital Transformation?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 18, 2021

If you’re a SaaS company that wants to grow faster, you should definitely be thinking about Product Activation Rate Optimization: raising the percentage of users who stick around long enough to experience the value of your product. The time tracking feature doesn’t differentiate between billable and non-billable time.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 15, 2017

Guest Post by: Lonnie Rosenbaum (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Marc Abraham]. Sharing product information within your company is one of the most valuable things you can do as a product manager. Previously, he held product roles at three other technology companies, two of which he co-founded.

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Gainsight

JULY 16, 2019

The daily life of a product manager is busy—you don’t have time to waste on software that doesn’t fit your needs. Especially when you consider how much time and resources get put into evaluating, implementing, onboarding, and navigating change management. Gainsight PX is a complete Product Experience Platform.

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Revulytics

AUGUST 4, 2017

But usage intelligence for desktop applications across different operating systems isn’t its best game and, as such, it’s really not playing at the game’s highest level, and will have a hard time ever being as good at it as those who have focused on it for years. Microsoft requires custom development. Revulytics does not.

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Amplitude

JANUARY 23, 2020

We’ve seen that self-service analytics platforms like Amplitude have fundamentally changed how teams interact with product data, their immediate teammates, and their organizations. By the start of 2020, Amplitude users had logged more than 23 trillion actions in our platform. The Amplitude team can relate.

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Balsamiq

JULY 13, 2018

This is the kind of thing that analytics will never tell you. So for this month's case study, I spent a little more time talking to Raguram Venkatesan , a customer and Product Manager in Florida. My role at Optym is Product Manager (for RouteMAX). What kinds of things are you excited about in your industry?

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Do product companies conduct due diligence to understand their channel partners before seeking alignment? Let me clarify that by channel partner I mean a large ecosystem of value added resellers (VARs), solution providers, service providers/managed service providers and systems integrators (SIs).

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As a product manager, one of the toughest challenges I and my fellow PMs face is prioritizing the right features amongst an ever-increasing influx of data from customer feedback, product analytics, and the never-ending list of stakeholder requests. Try Launch Management today!

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

A strategic product manager (PM) is responsible for shaping and sharing a strategic vision for a product, and yet—oddly enough—finding time for strategic activities can be a very real challenge. So, how does a product manager take ownership of more than just backlog management? Product Vision.

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Balsamiq

JULY 13, 2018

This is the kind of thing that analytics will never tell you. So for this month's case study, I spent a little more time talking to Raguram Venkatesan , a customer and Product Manager in Florida. My role at Optym is Product Manager (for RouteMAX). What kinds of things are you excited about in your industry?

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Guest Post by: Sharon Allpress (Mentee, Session 10, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Patrick Hoffman ]. As product managers, we need to be skilled in a variety of areas from defining features and requirements to understanding customers, analyzing usage metrics, prioritizing features, managing releases, and the list goes on.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Looking for the best customer engagement tool for your SaaS company? There are plenty of solutions of customer engagement on review sites, but they don’t make the choice any easier. Instead, we decided to focus on customer engagement tools for in-app engagements in SaaS products. .

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

If a persona says no to both questions, users like her won’t care about this feature, even if you consider it your magnum opus or your product’s big differentiator. Our app is now integrated with [Maps App X]”? Or “We saw that you look at a lot of [Metro stations] when you use [Our App Name Here]. Sad but true.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Is your customer success platform up to scratch for 2022? SaaS is evolving and users today expect more value, more quickly, with less effort than ever before. 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?

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