Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

In software product development, there is a growing demand for product managers to perform more tasks, do complex data analysis, and strategize with competing priorities. Product managers often use skills like strategic thinking, user research, product prioritization / backlog grooming, data analysis, and communication.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

In today’s data-driven SaaS scene, these can affect hundreds of millions of users and cause damage in the billions of dollars, and as compliance frameworks become requirements to do business, businesses are turning to third-party services that can help expedite and facilitate the process. It’s becoming the bare minimum. Start early.

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Userpilot

JULY 5, 2022

What is a customer service gap and how do you close it? If you’re looking for a customer service gap definition, you are at the right place. We’ve prepared a comprehensive guide on this topic so that you will find all answers at once: what the customer service gap stands for. 5 strategies for closing the customer gap.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

TL;DR WalkMe is a digital adoption platform designed to facilitate customer and employee onboarding through in-app experiences, like interactive walkthroughs , on-screen guidance, and self-service support resources. The specific analytics features available differ between the customer and employee onboarding solutions.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2020

As an intelligence officer, I used this technique to help policymakers consider how situations would unfold over time so they could shape US national security policy. To help illustrate the process, let’s say we’re an established B2B software company that makes vehicle inventory and sales products for the US automotive industry.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 16, 2022

To achieve our mission of making internet business personal and scaling to support larger and larger customers, we have been continually, thoughtfully, and carefully investing in our people, systems, and processes to maintain Intercom’s high standards of availability. The foundation of our operational health is availability.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Especially in B2B/enterprise software companies, I see two dramatically divergent ( incompatible ) worldviews that IMO explain a lot of corporate behavior.  Total demand for engineering always outstrips resources by 20x-100x, so they can only consider the handful of requests that benefit large numbers of customers.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

Want to improve the product experience at every stage of the customer journey? Heat map tools allow you to track user actions on your website or app. You can understand customer pain points, identify friction at different touchpoints, and improve your product accordingly. What are heat map tools?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Other times, when they are challenged or stated they are rebuffed. Corporate forces deserve just as much attention and diligence as you would take to developing a Value Proposition or a Business Model. All of this takes time. He needed to run landing page experiments to test the desirability of their product.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 17, 2020

User feedback is the single most valuable resource you have available when you’re trying to grow a SaaS. Too much user feedback can present problems: What if the feedback is pulling you in all directions? If acting on everything your users tell you would overstretch your resources? How to Collect User Feedback.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 7, 2018

I speak/write incessantly about the importance of product managers talking directly with their users and buyers (collectively “customers”), not mediated through Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, User Experience, or stray notes posted to Salesforce. They get their market information second-hand.

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Gainsight

MARCH 12, 2019

Just how accurate are online review aggregators, anyway? If you pull up Google or Yelp for a restaurant, say, you’ll get an aggregate of stars from one to five, the number of reviews counted, and any number of written reviews and qualitative feedback. So why should you care about SaaS reviews? You need SaaS reviews.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A well-executed product and user feedback policy (PUFP) is a critical aspect of any successful business strategy. A strong PUFP is integral to improving products and services, fostering a sense of engagement and appreciation among customers, and driving growth and innovation.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 30, 2021

The pressure is only increasing due to the influence of the pandemic, as more consumers begin to shift their preference to the comforts of home. From the outset of COVID-19, almost half of all customers in the UK acquired products online that previously they would have bought only from brick-and-mortar retailers.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. In fact there was tension between designers and developers due to cultural and language differences (most developers were Indian and Asian, the other three designers were white Americans, and I am British West-Indian).

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Userpilot

AUGUST 26, 2024

Product data capture is essential for SaaS companies looking to understand user behavior, optimize user experiences, and drive product growth. Here are 5 ways to collect product data: Leverage user feedback surveys to gather data. Track user behavior with in-app events. Collect product data through A/B tests.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 3, 2021

Your support team is asking for more time. And more success means more time, less stress, and ultimately a more meaningful life. But more clearer thinking also means more time for the most meaningful parts of the product , less stress about making decisions, and ultimately more meaningful product outcomes.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

A powerful AI tool can be the perfect companion to your customer success platform. In this article, we will explore: How to leverage AI tools for customer success and retention. How can customer success managers address the challenges and concerns around AI when it comes to providing a better user experience?

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eG Innovations

JULY 4, 2019

The success of these initiatives is closely tied to ensuring a great user experience for end users as they access their virtual apps and desktops. 1 Logon Times. In terms of metrics that make up the user experience, logon times are one of the most important for an end-user and for the organization.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

TL;DR Product analytics involves tracking and analyzing the information about user interactions with your product. Analytics software is an application that enables you to collect user behavior data , filter it, and analyze it. As a very advanced tool with high levels of customization, it may be difficult to set up.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2017

This week we feature an article by Patrick Thuot who shares an infographic about how customer service can help the retail industry. A customer-centric approach can help any type of business succeed. – Shep Hyken. To entice those customers to come in-store requires there to be something worth coming in for.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2023

Consequently, travel software development companies come up with a solution called travel management system. A travel management system is software that manages all aspects of your business travel. They are typically integrated with travel service providers, providing real-time rates, bookings, and trip logistics in one location.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JULY 13, 2020

COVID-19 has forced executives to rethink many of their assumptions about their customers, markets and products. Resources have been scarce, travel to customers dropped to near zero and the future is unclear. Digital Lumens began in 2010 as a lighting management system for large industrial customers. About Digital Lumens.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JULY 13, 2020

COVID-19 has forced executives to rethink many of their assumptions about their customers, markets and products. Resources have been scarce, travel to customers dropped to near zero and the future is unclear. Digital Lumens began in 2010 as a lighting management system for large industrial customers. About Digital Lumens.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JULY 13, 2020

COVID-19 has forced executives to rethink many of their assumptions about their customers, markets and products. Resources have been scarce, travel to customers dropped to near zero and the future is unclear. Digital Lumens began in 2010 as a lighting management system for large industrial customers. About Digital Lumens.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

What is product experience? How is it different from customer experience? Why is product experience important for your SaaS? Product experience is part of customer experience. The latter covers the whole customer journey and activities as communication with the support teams too, not just the product.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2023

. "Digital transformation" is the process of using technology to redefine processes, products, and services to create more value for customers and organizations. From cloud computing to customer experience transformation, we’ll look at what each type of transformation entails and how it can help your business.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It’s my favorite time of the year?—?and Credits to Egor Koshman With no further due, here are the books that influenced my thinking (with one favorite quote and a short summary each) : Good Strategy/Bad Strategy (By Richard Rumelt) “The kernel of a strategy contains three elements: a diagnosis, a guiding policy, and coherent action.”

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 9, 2018

On the heels of launching Intercom’s newest feature, Custom Bots , I hosted Lili on our podcast. We talked about how bots and humans can work better together, when and how to give your chatbot a personality, and how the earliest chat experiences still inform what we build today. Short on time? The future of AI is bright.

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Revulytics

JANUARY 30, 2020

An audit suggests the reviewing party sees only an act of bad faith. But for software vendors, an audit has often been the traditional path to confirm whether a customer is complying with its software license agreement. While no one likes to be audited, most software vendors can be reluctant to conduct them.

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Userzoom

MARCH 26, 2020

In order to get realistic insights, you need to provide enough information so users aren’t guessing what they need to do, while also not providing too much information and biasing their chance of succeeding. Other times you won’t be knowledgeable about a particular product you are testing and may need some guidance to write the tasks.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 25, 2022

At the beginning of this century, the term was used mostly for enterprise solutions, but with time, more customer-focused solutions appeared on the market. Today, the main goals of fintech are to facilitate the interaction with finances and to improve the relationship between financial institutions and customers.

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Lenny Rachitsky

OCTOBER 1, 2024

These aren’t just any courses—they’re live, interactive experiences led by world-class operators, many of whom you’ve seen in my newsletter or podcast already. This informed approach made it easier to influence that team, and they decided to support my team’s project, which allowed us to launch on time.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 2, 2018

As I mentioned in the GDPR article I believe a product person is the best placed to help a business implement a strong data protection policy – as you’ll have an understanding of how the data is used, and you’ll need to make sure any new features you roll out are compliant. A data controller is likely to be you. Personal Fines.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

How do you manage return policies within a delivery supply chain that stretches across several countries? Spending a lot of time and care here will help to avoid costly mistakes later on. Your support team will become frustrated very quickly if you expand into Germany but your billing software doesn’t support German characters.

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Product Management Unpacked

JULY 19, 2018

I have led or been a major contributor to two of the most successful software companies in the world. I have served as a CEO several times and have been involved or responsible for the launch of more than 100 products. There is a scarcity of good product managers with the experience or skills needed to scale a product.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Since our first ancestors began writing on parchment, data has been an integral part of the human experience. Today, due to the internet, software development companies collect such vast quantities of data that we have coined a new term for it: “big data.” million times per day.

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