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Ask Teresa: How Do You Select Customers for Customer Interviews?

Product Talk

Creating frequent touch points with customers is one of the core tenets of continuous discovery. I’ve often said that I believe interviewing customers frequently and consistently is a keystone habit. Question: When you talk to customers on a weekly basis, who should you be talking to? You want to talk to power users.

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The Interview Snapshot: How to Synthesize and Share What You Learned from a Single Customer Interview

Product Talk

When you start interviewing customers every week, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by how much you are learning. When we use our customer interviews to collect specific stories about past behavior, every conversation can uncover dozens of unmet customer needs, pain points, and desires (AKA opportunities).

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6 Customer Communication Pain Points in SaaS + How to Resolve Them

Userpilot

Left unaddressed, customer communication pain points can cause dissatisfaction and eventual churn. We cover: Types of customer pain points. How to identify customer pain points. Six common customer pain points. Better customer support. Book a demo now.

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CX expert Annette Franz on putting the ‘customer’ in ‘customer experience’

Intercom, Inc.

Most businesses design customer experiences from the inside out, based on what is best for the company, when they should be doing the exact opposite. Few people are as passionate about customer experience as Annette, the founder and CEO of consulting firm CX Journey Inc. How to put the “customer” in “customer experience”.

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Opportunity Mapping: An Essential Skill for Driving Product Outcomes

Product Talk

The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book, Continuous Discovery Habits. As you collect customers’ stories, you are going to hear about countless needs, pain points, and desires. Our customers’ stories are rife with gaps between what they expect and how the world works. John Dewey , How We Think.

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How to Identify Customer Pain Points and Adress Them to Drive Product Growth

Userpilot

Understanding how to identify customer pain points and struggles is the cornerstone of creating a painless customer experience and a loyal customer base. The reason is simple – struggling customers hold the key to sustained product growth. There are different types of pain points.

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Product Discovery Basics: Everything You Need to Know

Product Talk

Good product discovery includes the customer throughout the decision-making process. Good product discovery includes the customer throughout the decision-making process. Good product discovery includes the customer throughout that process. If we are lucky, we might do some customer research at the beginning of the project.