Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

I’m often asked what KPIs B2B/enterprise product folks should use, or what OKRs they should choose. Why KPIs from consumer companies don’t fit well with B2B/enterprise. Companies in the foreign exchange markets make a lot of money. Most of us have seen Pirate Metrics , Qualified Marketing Traffic, or Net Promoter Score.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Research from Epsilon shows that 80% of customers are more likely to do business with a company that offers personalized marketing campaigns. This statistic highlights why market segmentation is important: it allows tailored product marketing customized to the needs of distinct market segments.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Picture this: You’re a stakeholder in a company specializing in enterprise SaaS solutions, and your team is embarking on developing a new product. This approach not only enhances the usability of the product but also aligns its development with the real-world requirements of its users, making it more likely to succeed in the market.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2022

Case Category: Market sizing & Estimation, Goals & Measures Case Type: Investor pitch by a startup planning to launch smartwatches in India ?? Apart from bringing TAM, SAM, SOM, also get the growth projection for 2–4 years and demonstrate the strategic roadmap while covering the marketing strategy.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Software as a Service offers specialized tools for product growth , CRM, project management, ERP, collaboration, financial management, customer service, and marketing automation. Microsoft offers enterprise solutions, productivity suites, and cloud services for both B2B and B2C sectors, emphasizing innovation and efficiency.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2018

Is there a difference between developing a product for enterprise and a consumer? Although in both cases your software product is used by humans, an enterprise is a legal entity, while a consumer is a person. And the fact that an enterprise is a legal entity makes product management for enterprise products a little different.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 13, 2019

The first strategy of that next wave of growth is to expand your addressable market. How to expand your market. There are three ways companies typically expand their market: By expanding to other verticals. In B2C, that is companies who start with a high end product and then create simpler or less expensive versions of it.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Observations of a B2C startup product manager working in enterprise. These enterprise product manager roles can be (counterintuitively, even more so than the startup roles) about taking a massive step back and taking control of the product vision. The post From Startup to Enterprise Product Manager: Is Bigger Always Better?

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Userpilot

JUNE 19, 2024

Interested in product marketing manager roles? In this guide, we’ll explore the ins and outs of product marketing manager roles through detailed job descriptions and handy templates. TL;DR A product marketing manager is a professional responsible for promoting and selling their company’s products. Let’s dive in!

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

B2B marketing automation helps businesses grow faster, while not breaking the bank. How do you effectively implement B2B marketing automation into your existing product marketing activities? In this article, we’ll cover: What B2B marketing automation is and how it benefits marketing and sales teams.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Marketing your SaaS is a complex task involving many roles, one being a growth marketer. But you may be thinking, what exactly is the role of a growth marketer, and how do they help grow your product ? In contrast, traditional marketing managers primarily concentrate on classic marketing campaigns for customer acquisition.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Creating a new product category also creates a plethora of challenges – from spotting the right market niche to convincing customers that yours is a service they need. Nico joined me on Inside Intercom this week, where we discussed everything from the three stages of company growth to how growing companies can address new markets.

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Product Management University

MAY 24, 2021

This is where B2B and B2C product management completely diverge. For example, consider the workflows that cross marketing, sales and finance, or customer service, shipping and billing, or IT, human resources and all departments. Critical versus nice-to-have monikers will be obvious when you look at it from this angle.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Indeed, among our customers were B2C companies, small businesses, and large enterprises along with customers in places and industries well beyond Silicon Valley. For a growing business, segmentation is necessary to know your customers and your market, and share this understanding across teams. Assessing progress on our strategy.

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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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Product Management Unpacked

JULY 11, 2019

When I started in product management in the mid-1980s, most product managers were hired to work in traditional B2C businesses, which is where the idea of product management originated. Product managers were difficult to hire even when the need for talent was coming more specifically from enterprise and B2C software and technology companies.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 26, 2019

Understanding how B2B product management is a different ball game altogether Product folks who have worked on the early stage enterprise products may relate with the title. Building an enterprise product is a whole lot different from building a consumer product. This is because, for most for B2C products, the user is also the customer.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 23, 2016

Palo Alto’s Lean Product & Lean UX Silicon Valley meetup, led by Dan Olsen, hosted Rich for… What: “ Challenges of Enterprise Product Management “ When: Tues, 23 Aug, 6pm – 830pm. This creates different problems for product managers than with high velocity ecommerce or B2C tech product.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

After understanding specific user personas who might actually need the technology (which frankly, could be very clunky when worn frequently), Google Glass then pivoted towards selling to enterprise customers. Two metrics that I’ve found useful for the Top of Funnel include: Conversion percentage from B2B demand generation marketing.

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 16, 2024

Product-led growth is a go-to-market strategy reflecting a straight forward product that people can try and buy on their own, without needing sales guidance. Sales-led growth is a go-to-market model where salespeople actively find and pursue potential customers. Let’s start by defining the phrases.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

4 Qualtrics for collecting multichannel feedback and B2B market research data Qualtrics NPS surveys. It’s designed for B2B enterprises that require advanced capabilities to collect and analyze customer feedback from B2B markets, and from multiple channels. Qualtrics is a highly robust experience management platform.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The story you tell to the market, the competitive moats you build, the pricing models fueling your growth – everything that got you to where you are needs to be reimagined for your new buyer. Analysts estimate that by 2022, global corporate eLearning will grow to be a $30 billion market.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2021

And what type of analytics really matters for a product marketing manager? In this article, I'll talk about why product analytics tools are important, how you can use them, and the best product analytics tool on the market. Is product analytics the same as marketing analytics? How many analytics tools do you need?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

I apply this lens to a startup that develops solutions in the health-tech market. While this article focuses on startups in B2B markets, we can extend it to B2C and B2B2C, while some considerations might be different. A Go-to-market strategy that meets the threshold where senior living homes would collaborate with a startup.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

MAY 7, 2024

Core Responsibilities of a Staff Product Manager: St rategic Oversight: Setting the strategic direction for products, ensuring decisions align with the company’s broader objectives, and effectively responding to market dynamics. They make tactical decisions that directly affect product performance and market positioning.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

If you are in B2B, the profile is most likely a market segment (company sizes, industries, etc.). If you are in B2C it’s usually different personas. For example, when companies say that they want to start selling to enterprises, everybody nods. Try including marketing, sales, customer success, and the CEO in the discussion.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

So while these shifts in consumer behaviors may be expedited by current circumstances, many unexpected industries were already exploring how to adopt B2B strategies for B2C – without losing the personal customer relationships that are at the core of their businesses. Learning from B2B. This time, it’s personal.

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Userpilot

JULY 7, 2024

We also consider the top 10 CCM software products on the market today. Respond.io – best customer communications software for B2C companies. There’s the Starter plan (starting at $249/month), the Growth plan (starting at $749/month), and the Enterprise plan (custom pricing). Its transparent pricing is divided into 3 tiers.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

There’s a clear distinction between technical and business-oriented roles, as well as between those focused on B2C and B2B markets. Sales and marketing efforts as the primary drivers for customer acquisition and revenue. The ideal customer profile is big enterprise deals. For example. Limited free offerings.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Whether you’re still validating your SaaS product idea or launching a new feature to an existing product line, thinking about your Go-To-Market Strategy is always relevant. In fact, iterating your strategy and improving each feature Go-To-Market plan as you grow and receive customer feedback is even more important. Let’s dive in!

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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  This is a must-close.”

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The Product Guy

JULY 18, 2019

As my expertise grew, so did my exposure to the breadth of responsibilities expected of product management, such as marketing, strategy, and product vision, which culminated in my next role as an enterprise Product Owner at American Express. Product professionals should take inventory of their experiences, as I have. Better Decisions.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2021

Photo by Ono Kosuki from Pexels OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) are a useful tool for goal setting and team alignment, and in recent years they have gone from being used primarily in quantitative parts of the organization (namely sales and marketing) to being very popular in product and technology as well. Marketing creates lead goals.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2020

That might seem obvious or naïve, but recent conversations with several B2B/enterprise clients suggest that it’s actually controversial. For context, enterprise tech companies tend to have a small number of large deals each quarter that really matter. ( B2B is lumpier than B2C.). We’re the best in the market.”

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Userpilot

MAY 20, 2024

Here are the best product growth tools for sales and marketing: HubSpot is the best customer relationship management software. Semrush is the best tool for product-led content marketing and SEO. ActiveCampaign is the best suite of retention email marketing tools. Salesforce is the best tool for sales teams.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Of the 1000 companies we signed up for to study their onboarding, 73% of B2C companies offered a free or freemium product, and 86% of B2B brands offered a free trial instead of freemium. We will then explain the benefits of freemium for SaaS and why they work well for B2C companies and not so great for B2B. Table of Contents.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2022

Whether B2C or B2B, all businesses must now deliver digital experiences that are easy to use, delightful, and personal. Third, the lines between sales, marketing, product, and support are blurring. With a plethora of comparable options in the market, customers will take their business to the company that provides the best experience.

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