Mind the Product

OCTOBER 11, 2019

How you prioritize, marketing campaigns, sales strategy, it all changes based on how your product is positioned. How do you position your product? 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.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Is your B2B Product Marketing strategy working for you? Brand positioning, demonstrating your value proposition to other businesses, and making channel decisions; B2B product marketing can become a complex process. Finally, set SMART goals and KPIs or OKRs for tracking your marketing performance.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Table of Contents The problem with defining product-market fit In search of quantitative indicators of product-market fit 6 things about measuring product-market fit 1. With that in mind, product-market fit is a spectrum 4. Once you find product-market fit, it’s not static 6.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 3, 2021

The convergence of software, hardware and services has forced traditional companies to find creative ways to differentiate what’s now a commodity. To what extent do product management and product marketing disciplines need to change to align with the new customer landscape? Out with Product Marketing 1.0

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In today’s episode, we discuss the six key elements to an effective product strategy and how to execute it, which we have evolved and adapted from Michael Porter’s famous paper “What Is Strategy?” ” Unique activities : Find the differentiators that make sense for you. Paul: So think about product-market fit.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This will change the way that a lot of people think about product market fit, BS metrics, understanding the needs of the people that really matter. Rahul Vohra (Founder/CEO, Superhuman) – The Product-Market Fit Engine from Business of Software Conference. So I’m going to talk about Product-Market Fit.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 6, 2020

Product marketing is one of the newest and most impactful roles within an organization. As a product marketing manager (PMM), you influence most areas of the organization including product, design, sales, support, and, of course, marketing. That degree doesn’t have to be in marketing, but it certainly helps.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

a non-trivial task for an on-premise product that needed access to the many assets it needed to monitor. Being plug-and-play, or aiming there, was our added value and a differentiator compared to other security products. To see these trade-offs clearly, you can name each phase and chart in each series.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 18, 2021

Product marketing can be tricky to define. It’s not sales, it’s not product management , and it’s not “traditional” marketing either. In this article, we’ll demystify product marketing for product managers. What is Product Marketing’s Job?

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

There is a ton of product management advice out there, but most of it is generic tips repeated over and over again. With a self-named newsletter and podcast, Lenny is a widely followed product expert. How did Lenny Rachitsky get started in product management?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

In today’s episode of Intercom on Product, Paul Adams , our SVP of Product, and I reflect on our own shortcomings as we scale – and the makings of a much-needed course correction. And then, after all that, you get to decide where you want to differentiate. “When you have momentum, you can feel it. Slowness is viral.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 9, 2017

If you’re in a product management, product marketing or sales enablement role, consider replacing the phrase market problems with customer goals. It will open your eyes to a whole new narrative, and it will help you deliver, market and sell solutions with more strategic customer value. Just to name a few.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

The product-focused approach helps you deliver a clear product value proposition, improve your brand image, and demonstrate competitive differentiation. Types of product-focused advertising every product marketing manager should consider: Product-led growth. Product-led blog content.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 4, 2021

Even if you are advertising in order to build your brand (think Coca-Cola or Nike), you are educating the market on the kind of company you are (or the kind you want to be, but that’s for a different post). In a way, once you are set on your target market , the level you are at is no longer for you to decide. What about Facebook?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Once we have a somewhat more precise picture of our target users, we can begin naming the most promising assumptions about their pains and needs and then dig deeper to test those assumptions. The truth is, even the most spectacular and unique value proposition won’t survive the market if it can’t be distributed or won’t capture value.

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Userpilot

JULY 29, 2024

Whiteboard template includes mission, pricing, features, strengths, weaknesses, and differentiators , helping teams visually map and compare competitors. The Asana analysis report includes an analysis overview, pricing, and products/services, allowing comparison by name, size, revenue, pricing models, and key features.

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Userpilot

JULY 24, 2024

Identify your target market and user segments to figure out what they want and chart out your product strategy accordingly. Outline your unique value proposition (UVP) and come up with a differentiation strategy to help differentiate your product. What is a product strategy framework?

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Innovatemap

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

How you sell and market your products, services, solutions, offerings, you name it, has changed. Product marketing can help in all of the scenarios above. Offering and Product Hierarchy: First and foremost, align your offerings with what your target market needs right now. The worst case scenario.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Product management is an experience-heavy field that requires years of experience and knowledge of new product development , product launches, project management, and even things like a digital marketing strategy. The trick is to compile all that experience and knowledge into one product marketing manager resume.

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Mind the Product

JULY 17, 2018

Minimizing SKUs delivers innumerable downstream benefits: lower inventory cost, lower cost of goods, and fewer stockouts to name a few. The right time to expand color selection and product variation is after you’ve proved product/market fit, not before. Can you make it just as cool and differentiated as your product?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

Even if you are advertising in order to build your brand (think Coca-Cola or Nike), you are educating the market on the kind of company you are (or the kind you want to be, but that’s for a different post). Let’s get right to it: what are those things you can educate the market on, and where are you setting yourself to failure?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2022

SaaS companies often struggle to identify user problems worth solving, differentiate their products, and get the pricing right. Entering immature markets and devising a relatable product vision are also serious challenges. To avoid product failure, don’t launch without achieving product-market fit first.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The episode contrasts Clayton Christensen’s consumer demand approach with Tony Ulwick’s job analysis perspective, while providing practical guidance for conducting customer interviews and prioritizing product improvements. How could you use Jobs-To-Be-Done insights to better align your marketing messages with customer needs?

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Mixpanel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Read on for our conversation with Xu about finding product-market fit when you’re the ideal user, growing a following vs. growing an app, and what the future of social media looks like. The reason I started posting my trades as Sir Jack is because it can feel really uncomfortable talking about finances under your real name.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

When I think of partnership, many examples come to mind, across many disciplines – tennis, criminal investigation, entrepreneurship and movie production, to name a few. First, a clear view of the primary and secondary products and services in a channel partner’s portfolio is needed. appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2023

The previous version was almost five years old, and we knew that we needed an ambitious and clear vision to bring a next-generation Messenger to the market. Surveying the landscape First, we zoomed out from day-to-day execution and evaluated Messenger across multiple dimensions – product, market, customers, and business.

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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. How many times this month would you say you used the [insert name] app?”

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

JULY 17, 2018

people at a startup don’t automatically have a common understanding of their products’ value propositions either. And lack of alignment at a startup is more painful, especially in early stages when you are looking for that elusive product-market fit. Note that a single product will often have more than one value proposition?—?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 17, 2023

I could start comparing features and value statements, but there was a problem: I never met any of these names as part of our sales cycle. But when you define your product strategy, and your differentiation from the competition, it is important to understand what your real competition is. The CEO wanted a competitive analysis.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

I think one point of differentiation in how we’ve built the surfboard team is it’s become really design-led. For any group of engineers, we have a dedicated designer who works with them focusing on user research, UX, UI, and fundamental product design. . Was there a lot more to do? Natasha: For sure.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 25, 2022

Have you recently been invited to a product marketing manager interview? One of the best and first things you should do is review the most common product marketing interview questions and answers. Product marketing managers play a critical role in bringing new products to market.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2022

For the growth phase, marketing should gear towards accelerating demand and profit growth through constant innovation, proper pricing, and proper messaging. Marketing campaigns in the maturity cycle should highlight product differentiation and brand identity to maintain a market presence over the competition.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

They provide the most growth for your product and can reveal a lot in a short period of time. Product-market fit (PMF) surveys allow growing SaaS companies to see if their product is meeting market needs and expectations. How do you differentiate between valuable feedback and noise?

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Product Management Unpacked

AUGUST 8, 2018

Finally, the product management software organization Pendo in their State of Leadership report states that 44.7% of product managers report to the CMO (the most), while 6.7% report to ‘Product’ (the least). I believe that product management and especially product marketing ARE marketing roles first and foremost.

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Innovatemap

JULY 2, 2020

Product marketers are indispensable to the success of a product company. They’re a rare blend of sales, marketing, communications, product team, and subject-matter expertise. They articulate your product’s purpose and play a critical role in scaling that unique positioning across your team.

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Mind the Product

JULY 24, 2018

However, there is no free lunch, and reducing labor hours often requires capital expenditures (capex), namely tooling and automation. Make the capex decision too soon, before your product-market fit is validated, and you run the risk of sinking capital costs that you’ll never recover.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

This isn’t about team productivity mind you, but individual product managers productivity. It doesn’t come as a shock that the empowered product teams seem to be more prevalent in companies who have well and truely found product market fit and are growing quickly. Do you see the problem?

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