The Product Coalition

MARCH 24, 2021

Innovators have to build first reference customers in the mainstream market to prove having a promising business model and a compelling offering. Starting with a niche market ensures focusing on a very specific customer problem and probably little to no competition. As we do not have yet data available from live customers?—?or

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

One of our mantras here at Intercom is that customer retention is the new conversion. In an era when more and more businesses adopt a subscription model, strong customer retention is the key to sustainable long-term growth and requires a laser-like focus. . How Jobs-to-be-Done unlocks customer empathy.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 1, 2021

To do this effectively, it’s important to remember that every customer interaction matters when closing a deal. Study any sales coaching blog, podcast, or book and you’ll find plenty of advice on the best ways to coach your sales reps: join their calls, listen to recordings, apply a framework … the list goes on.

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Alchemer Mobile

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The data used throughout this post is from anonymized, US-based Apptentive customers’ iOS apps. Almost all of our customers’ apps have experienced a significant change in their DAU due to COVID-19. Here are our top recommendations for Travel and Hospitality brands at this time: Focus on reducing customer churn and boosting loyalty.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

According to Gartner , companies that properly use customer journey maps are twice as likely to outperform their competitors that don’t. But to unlock such effective results, first, you need to know how to create impactful maps—which is what these 8 customer journey map examples are for. Creating user personas.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

The Approach (the Frameworks). Where will you compete: which customer segments, which categories, which channels? Will you follow Porter’s path for differentiation or cost leadership? I’d like to share next how we merged these frameworks together in a unified process. Where will you play? How will you win?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

We’ve expanded our product offering and the customers we target, meaning we’re marketing to new and more varied audiences. It’s a simple framework for defining the tier of a launch where P1 refers to the biggest launches, P4 refers to small updates or improvements and P2 and P3 cover everything in between. Prioritize based on impact.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

Why do product managers need a new feature validation framework? TL;DR Product managers need a new feature validation framework to ensure that they meet user needs or drive organizational goals and avert product failure. Your new feature validation framework should consist of at least 3 techniques. How can you build one?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 17, 2021

For years, customer support was seen as a cost center, not a value driver – a necessary response to inevitable customer questions or frustrations. But now that customer experience has become a critical differentiator for modern consumers, this reactive approach to customer support is no longer good enough.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Step 1: Understand why Your Customers use Your Product. Sean Ellis’ survey to discover if you’ve hit product/market fit is a great way to understand your customers. It tells you the value your customers get from your product and which aspect of your product is key to them. How do you differentiate a soap’s messaging?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 12, 2024

There, he’ll share his framework to: Position your product. Positioning is about defining your product’s value and unique selling point. Messaging , on the other hand, is about using the right words to clearly communicate your benefits to customers. – Differentiate your product from the competition.

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Userpilot

JUNE 26, 2023

Choosing the right feature request prioritization framework enables product teams to make informed decisions and deliver the maximum customer value possible, especially when resources are limited. Our guide introduces 15 popular prioritization frameworks along with their pros and cons. Let’s dive in.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

5-step process The Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) is a powerful tool in product design that helps teams focus on understanding the needs and objectives of their customers rather than just the product itself. Here’s how to use the JTBD framework in product design: [link] 1. Jobs to be done template. Who are they?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

But are you solving for actual customer problems? The danger, however, lies in mistaking new functionality for actually adding meaningful value to the customer experience. To reframe things, only about one out of three feature ideas actually come directly from customers… you know, the people who are paying money to use your products.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Are you wondering what the customer development process is? Would you like to know how a product manager can use it to deliver products that customers love? The customer development framework helps teams validate product ideas and build products that solve customers’ problems.

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People-First Product Leadership

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

communications skills in a tech PM role) became a differentiator, allowing me to approach problems from fresh angles. Career Transition Compound Effect Framework At the heart of successful career transitions lies what I call the Career Transition Compound Effect (CTCE).

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

In doing so I hope to help demystify what you actually do in the role, provide a framework for assessing what dimensions of the role you are already good at delivering against, and opportunities for improvement on each. Design: Customer Discovery Insights. Elon Musk has put out some of my favorite product vision walkthroughs.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

How should product managers handle customer requests to improve customer satisfaction and drive value for users and the business? Customer requests are queries about your product. Some of them are solved quickly by customer support while others involve the development of new functionality. Book the demo !

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

Every designer should ask themselves – how can I apply the tenets of good design to drive better customer and business outcomes? User research is a vital part of the design process. By constantly observing the customer, you find out how they define success in their organization, and therefore, how you can help them achieve it.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

This article is inspired by the book The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback by Dan Olsen and aims to describe two essential concepts described in the book, namely the Product-Market Fit Pyramid and the Lean Product Process that aims to help us achieve that fit. it’s a hypothesis.

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Userpilot

MAY 14, 2024

A customer behavior model reveals the external and intrinsic factors influencing buying decisions. This article covers 12 of the most common customer behavior models and how to maximize them for better product management. Customer behavior models also help them improve user experience and boost customer retention.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 12, 2023

The way users perceive and interact with a product influences their overall experience. The Gestalt principles — originating from psychology and applied to design — offer a systematic framework to understand how humans naturally perceive and organize visual information. The whole is other than the sum of the parts.” — Kurt Koffka 2.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A messaging strategy is a marketing framework /plan that outlines how your brand communicates its key messages and unique selling proposition to its target audience. Differentiation : Strategic messaging highlights what makes your brand unique, showcasing features and benefits that set you apart from competitors. User persona example.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Such a strategy helps the team put themselves in the shoes of the users, better understand their needs and pain points , and make the user experience consistently good at all stages of the user journey. A robust UX strategy is also a valuable differentiator helping you stand out in competitive markets.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Traditional banking often struggles to capture and maintain customer engagement. This gap in engagement and recognition highlights the customers expectations for a more dynamic and modern digital banking experience. It ultimately changes how we think about financial services. Wheres the brand identity?

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Pragmatic Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Manickam’s team at Boomi, which specializes in cloud-based integration, API management and master data management, starts all messaging and positioning with the same framework. ” Remember the audience—the customer—while building that messaging framework. See below.).

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Pragmatic Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Manickam’s team at Boomi, which specializes in cloud-based integration, API management and master data management, starts all messaging and positioning with the same framework. ” Remember the audience—the customer—while building that messaging framework. See below.).

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Userpilot

AUGUST 12, 2024

Empathize with users. Analyze your target users to understand their pain points, goals, and behaviors. Develop user personas. A great value proposition should: Differentiate your product from other solutions in the market. Communicate the main benefit your product provides to users. Who are they?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 23, 2023

A good grasp of the customer value chain is essential to product-led growth. Having a clear idea of how your solution adds value to your customers’ lives is the only way you’ll be able to clearly communicate the core benefits and get your value proposition across. What is the customer value chain concept?

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Department of Product

AUGUST 11, 2020

The 5 types of Product Differentiation How to fight your natural instinct to copy others The allure of copying competitors The gravitational pull towards copying competitors is real. The product teams who are able to fight this natural instinct to copy others are the ones who will build truly differentiated offerings.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Confirming you have product-market fit before launching your product ensures you have customers who are happy to pay for your product, use it, and share the word about it. Differentiate your product from other similar products on the market to avoid product parity. It reveals the value customers receive for the money paid.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

An effective customer activation funnel can be an extremely powerful way to channel new customers through your product and get them to experience value fast. In this article, we’ll explore what customer activation is, how to unlock it within your own product, and the best tactics, techniques, and onboarding tools for the job.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

The skill of running effective user interviews is key to defining your target users, finding product-market fit , growing your product, figuring out what to build next — or just simply understanding how users perceive your product. Being good at user interviews is not equal to simply listening to your users.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 11, 2022

A B2B marketing strategy is any marketing activity aimed at turning other companies into customers. Next, you need to formulate your key message using your customers’ pain points and their resolvent with your product. Defining your target audience helps you reach your potential customers with the right channels.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The outcome-based roadmap focuses on delivering value to customers instead of obsessing about building specific features. Many companies lack differentiation strategies and drive product development by copying competitors. As companies scale, they often cannot satisfy customer needs equally well. A roadmap example.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Product managers conduct primary and secondary market and customer research to find the target market and identify opportunities that existing products don’t satisfy. Market research, differentiation, and positioning are necessary to prepare for the product launch. Measuring user sentiment with NPS surveys is easy.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The pricing structure for customers vs resellers. To survive a business must understand the competitive landscape and differentiate its offerings. In a multi-tiered sales channel, a vendor can be separated from the customer by several tiers. Customer Acquisition. Current Strategy vs Future Direction.

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