Userpilot

APRIL 16, 2025

Your customer information lives in Salesforce, while your support tickets are in Zendesk, your product usage data in Mixpanel, and your marketing campaigns in HubSpot. Data fragmentation prevents you from delivering the cohesive, personalized experiences your customers expect. But that view only reflects web users.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). Two major obstacles stood in my way.

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Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

When done well, storyboarding helps PMs communicate clearly, align teams faster, and influence decisionswithout needing formal authority. Not because the ideas are bad, but because the delivery misses the mark. PMs are often tasked with aligning stakeholders, guiding engineering teams, and championing the customer.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 2, 2024

Understanding customer experience (CX) isn’t just a strategy—it’s a superpower. Customer experience metrics illuminate the path to customer satisfaction, loyalty, and ultimately, success as an organization. Why should I track customer experience metrics?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

Be Clear on When to Involve the Stakeholders and Development Teams. Complex and high-impact decisions, however, are best made together with the stakeholders and development teams. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 13, 2021

What is product experience? Product experience refers to the customer journey that takes place within the product itself, from a person’s first login to their last time using the application. It is a broader, more end-to-end view of user experience, which refers to specific interactions a person has within a product.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me. Another time, I was asked to help a team of a major charity in the UK whose task was to create a new website for their fund-raising campaigns. The Product Backlog is Too Big.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 20, 2024

This is every product manager’s nightmare – an onboarding failure that cripples customer retention. What is customer onboarding? Customer onboarding is the process of welcoming new customers to your product or service and helping them utilize the product and maximize the value of their purchase.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

According to the American Customer Satisfaction Index , with an ACSI score of 78.0, overall customer satisfaction in America was the highest it has ever been in Q1 2024. However, while some companies have managed to improve their customer satisfaction levels and benefit from it, many have not. What is customer satisfaction?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We are at the start of a revolution in customer communication, powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. Our Custom Bots and Resolution Bot already work for thousands of businesses every day. These bots help businesses deliver both radical efficiencies and better, faster support experiences.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 3, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. .

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Product Talk

APRIL 16, 2025

To deliver high-quality online courses we were patching together several different tools to create a good student experience. But then, one day, I found myself reading Ask Your Developer by Jeff Lawson and I realized I was the one making the mistake. API teams need to think about onboarding just like everyone else.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Without effective UX analytics that goes beyond collecting data, you’re losing valuable customers. Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. Basically, anything that ruins the user experience.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

At JCDecaux, I led the development of an information kiosk for airport passengers. Passengers are also able to view hotel information and use the devices to speak to the sales team of the hotel. The kiosks help thousands of customers by providing valuable information and generate a significant portion of the revenue for the company.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

But the value a product creates is ultimately determined by its users: No product will be successful in the long run if it does not solve a specific user problem, create a tangible benefit, or help the users achieve a specific goal. Myth #3: The product owner is responsible for the team performance.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

Automated customer service isn’t a new concept. But much has changed, both in usability and customer perception. Voice recognition technology has improved, AI solutions can interpret customer feedback, and chatbots have started to answer the questions they receive, not just pass them off to a human.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

This can be reassuring for customers and stakeholders, as the individuals believe that they know when their features will be delivered. This makes the product roadmap more susceptible to change and it increases the effort to update it. In addition to goals, the template above contains dates or time frames, names, features, and metrics.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

These help you direct your learning efforts, track progress, and measure how much you have learnt. I’ve chosen quarters in the sample roadmap above, but you can use shorter time frames, of course, if you can meet your learning goals more quickly. This can help you tie individual learning goals to team and department goals.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It’s an organizational issue—moving quickly to beat competitors and keep up with changing customer preferences. When companies take the time to design products that match what the customer needs, profits soar, customer satisfaction (and retention) soars, and employee satisfaction gets a nice uptick too.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 7, 2025

A Story to Start During my time consulting with a Fortune 500 financial services company, I encountered a significant challenge they faced with the rollout of a digital platform aimed at streamlining client account management. And heres the best part: its a mindset anyone can adopt, no matter their role, background, or expertise.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

Ruthless prioritization translates to product teams spending time building the right thing at the right time. This discipline is the bread & butter for a winning product team, but building an effective product process takes a lot of trial and error. Our objective is to understand customer needs and adjusting. .

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Product analytics refers to the process of gathering and analyzing data on how users interact with a product. It tracks key metrics such as feature usage , user flows, and behavior patterns to explore user preferences and pain points. Enables teams to track progress toward key performance indicators (KPIs).

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As a support leader, you already know how important it is to take care of your customers – but it’s just as important to take care of your support team. Here’s why human support is so crucial for any customer-centric organization, and how it can have a significant impact on your team, your business, and your customers.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 2, 2020

If you can maximize your team’s productivity, you can help more customers at lower costs. And it makes sense: in order to be around to support your customers well into the future, you need a solid foundation for scale. . In her own words , “When you take care of your customers, the revenue comes.”

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The Product Guy

JULY 18, 2019

Product development roles and “product” as a discipline are rapidly evolving within technology companies. It is beneficial to understand the difference between these roles, and in particular the different experience and skills they require. This internship grew into a full time role as a project manager.I

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

Consequently, you don’t know for sure how fast you are running and if you are on track to achieve your target finish time. While common sense suggests that managing a product without the right measurements is not a sensible approach, I’ve seen product teams who did not use any KPIs. 2 Wrong Product KPIs.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 8, 2019

The day we reached 200 daily users was a critical milestone – more a psychological one for me personally than anything else. Local businesses paid us to be on our website, and people told us that it saved them time. We refined the message and added features important for our partners and users. A story of one failure.

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Product Talk

APRIL 9, 2025

Last week, I shared that we often get asked, Do API teams need to do discovery ? Today, Ill be covering the most common usability issues that arise when developers start working with a new API. Customer-facing APIs are products. You want customers to get value from your product as quickly as possible.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. Collect customer data to calculate complex formulas for tracking metrics, monitor customer health scores, and resolve support tickets while continuously trying to improve retention and expansion.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 17, 2024

Kranthi recently shared a story in the Continuous Discovery Habits community about how continuous discovery , specifically customer interviews , has helped him break away from some of his previous approaches to building a company and focus more on what customers and prospective customers care about most.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

These might be end-user-facing or internal ones like a software platform, for instance; they might directly generate revenue or support commercial offerings. You can think of Microsoft Visio as a product line, as it is offered in three versions at the time of writing—basic, standard, and advanced.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 26, 2022

In today’s modern age, support teams simply need to redefine what being “personal” means. But with the development of automation, like bots and contextual help content, we’ve significantly changed our perception of what being personal means. If your team is pondering whether to use “bots versus humans?” That’s true empathy.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

Also known as Product Intuition or Product Instinct or Product Taste, it is the idea that you can use your own judgment to (1) accurately predict what your customers need, want and value, and (2) design and ship the right solution for them. I have experienced this many times on both sides, as the receiver and the critiquer. Who has it?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

You get something that truly works for you, and we get to connect with people who value what we offer and have the potential to become power users (and sources of sustainable revenue!). Trying to bring in as many users as possible, only to see most of them lose interest before their free trial is even over. The alternative?

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