Tyner Blain

MARCH 20, 2025

Just as you change collaboration patterns through changing how you develop roadmaps, you change the conversation with leaders through how you orient towards supporting them. I use two characteristics to differentiate giving dictation from setting direction. There are two ways the product manager and team can think about the work.

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The Product Bistro

DECEMBER 28, 2018

These are the same people who think the Chinese no-name Android smartphone for $150 is something that Apple should compete against, since their profit margins are so healthy. Truth is, that these are usually the teasers that are used to get people into the dealership, and give their sales team the opportunity to up-sell.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Instead of relying on someone else (like a coach or leader) to tell them what to do next, product teams can use an opportunity solution tree to keep track of their desired outcome , the opportunities they’ve identified to chip away at that outcome, and the solutions they’re considering to address those opportunities.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2021

And for your support team, using the right conversational support tool and framework allows them to maximize their resources, so they can focus on solving complex queries and building long-term customer relationships. But conversational support doesn’t just benefit your support team. Teams that benefit: Sales, marketing.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 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. However, these early efforts faced significant limitations.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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Userpilot

JULY 22, 2024

Let’s explore the steps to develop a solid positioning statement and some examples of successful brand positioning from other companies. TL;DR Developing a solid product positioning strategy involves several key steps. Here are the steps to develop your positioning effectively: Conduct thorough market research.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

We surveyed and interviewed key people in our teams to understand how they worked and how they saw Intercom’s internal operations. Honest feedback can be hard to take, but it’s essential to develop the type of culture that encourages people to constructively criticize processes, leadership styles, or approaches. Paul: Yeah.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

With a self-named newsletter and podcast, Lenny is a widely followed product expert. Before starting his own venture, Lenny worked in the product and engineering teams of companies like Airbnb and Neustar. Following the acquisition, he transitioned from engineering to the product team , marking a pivotal moment in his career.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

As a product leader who is creating this roadmap, you need to treat it as a compass and plan not only for your team and the technology team but rather as the direction that the entire company needs to go in. So, having a great platform but poor content won’t really help them. if you fail, what would you have done wrong?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

And as the organization grows, the work involved to get teams aligned on who you’re selling to and how you’re selling is not something to be taken for granted either. Ambient Strategy founder and CEO April Dunford on the symptoms of weak positioning. When you’re a small team, your time is everything. Speed is everything.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

How to prepare for a user interview, all the way to sharing the results with your team. I compiled this guide back when I was training product managers on my team to be able to run user interviews. How many times this month would you say you used the [insert name] app?” How should I change the UX of [feature]?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 4, 2021

Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation. If you are simply advertising your product, you are educating the market on the product and on why it is better than the competition, namely your unique value proposition. So what can and cannot work when you want to educate the market?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 10, 2023

Others believe that a focus on outcomes will negatively impact their ability to release features [outputs] as quickly as possible, especially since speed to market is still a winning differentiator for businesses — and back and forth the debate goes. ⚫ Outputs have your name on them for all to see. . Outputs aren’t bad.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Stefan Röse breaks down how Quantilope is pushing forward customer development and the consumer research field. They work with major companies like Procter & Gamble and Nestlé, who want to anticipate consumer trends to shape their product development. But we also have a research consulting team. While flying from the U.K.

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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. It didn’t mean that there was no competition (which is usually a very bad sign), but that the traditional search engines weren’t it. The CEO wanted a competitive analysis. Not a single one.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation, and rightfully so. If you are simply advertising your product, you are educating the market on the product and on why it is better than the competition, namely your unique value proposition. So what can and cannot work when you want to educate the market?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

Perform a SWOT analysis, identify the strengths and weaknesses of your top competing products, etc. Use ChatGPT as a brainstorming partner for product ideas , feature ideas, product names, etc. Idea creation : Use ChatGPT to generate new feature ideas , campaigns, blog post topics, product differentiation ideas, and more.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Agile in Name Only There was a cook who, whenever roasting lamb, cut the leg tip after having watched his mother do it, thinking it made a difference. Poor articulation gets misinterpreted as incompetence. Anyone reading this article who has ever worked in a hands-on team close to the action will know what I am talking about.

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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. and “how many?”

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Differentiating from Centralized Social Media Decentralized platforms have a unique superpower — censorship resistance. Developing a decentralized social media platform involves harnessing blockchain technology to create secure and transparent networks where users control their data. Think of them as your trustworthy stewards.

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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. Book a demo now to discuss with our team! Types of product-focused advertising every product marketing manager should consider: Product-led growth. Product-led blog content.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 23, 2020

As the CEO of Flow , a flexible project management app for teams, Daniel is working to create a productivity tool that defies conventional metrics, meaning that it simply allows you to get your most important work done without monopolizing the time you spend in the software itself. How do you differentiate yourself from the other companies?

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Userpilot

APRIL 13, 2022

Click tracking is an essential method for uncovering weak spots in the product UX and the user flow by analyzing how users engage with your UI. This can be a broken link, poor onboarding , confusing UX, etc. The product team utilizes click data for making data-driven decisions on product development.

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Userpilot

JULY 14, 2021

There are plenty of all these blogs “15 alternatives to {Brand Name} that are equally good” that are…plain wrong. Because still – there are some differentiators that may affect your choice. As your team of 4 is trying to make it (and not break it!), And these posts are literally not helping anyone. There are two.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 6, 2019

For instance, many teams build apps on Intercom so users can leverage their workflows and services within our live chat Messenger and messages. So I wanted to hear why that strategy makes sense for MadKudu and his advice for other teams thinking about building apps for their product. Short on time? Here are a few quick takeaways.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 16, 2024

The last thing you need is to stumble into the abyss of bad branding, a place where countless others have lost their way. Market research for startup branding can be perceived as an unnecessary expense, especially when compared to product development or marketing activities that seem more directly linked to revenue generation.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. Today we’re going to talk about the wonderful work of fiction that every product team has known as the roadmap. And I remember when we came in, we’d raised the Series A, or you guys raised the Series A and I inherited the success of that, we started hiring teams.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. Today we’re going to talk about the wonderful work of fiction that every product team has known as the roadmap. And I remember when we came in, we’d raised the Series A, or you guys raised the Series A and I inherited the success of that, we started hiring teams.

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Amplitude

MAY 7, 2018

Let’s face it, user personas have gotten a bad rap over the years. As a result, many modern product teams have decided to abandon personas altogether and adopt practices like user scenarios, user stories, or the “Jobs to be Done” framework instead. Personas provide a common language across multiple teams.

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Gainsight

JUNE 11, 2021

Team Up with Sales to Drive Revenue with Kristen Hayer, Founder & CEO at The Success League. But both teams should be working together to drive more revenue than attacking the customer base separately. It begins with identifying and developing outcomes. Staff it properly and invest in a proper team.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

As you give it a name, you can see all the details relating to the event in Heap’s Explore event dashboard. The tool is still under development, so there are a number of known issues that can cause problems for users. Premier: This plan is also a custom one you can negotiate by contacting Heap’s team. Heap pricing.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The internal pressure to deliver faster and more frequently often leaves product teams feeling like they have to slim down the scope of a feature, change the architecture, or make design decisions, all in the name of expediency. Thankfully, the product development lifecycle doesn’t always have to exist in a pressure cooker.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

MARCH 19, 2020

The experience may be good or bad, depending on a lot of factors. But if the experience is bad, there’s no amount of “good design” that can save it. User-centered design is an iterative process where you take an understanding of the user as and their context as a starting point for all design and development.”.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 29, 2023

 Renting (licensing) means we can put more of our own effort into market differentiators. We want to invest our always-scarce development efforts in work that truly matters to our customers, or where only we can do what’s necessary.  So " and "is that a legitimate software update?" " issues.  CRMs

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Over the past year, Phil Carter has been developing a framework for growing consumer subscription businesses, called the Subscription Value Loop. Companies like Canva, Grammarly, Figma, Notion, and Dropbox are excluded because they are considered B2B SaaS businesses since they have sales teams and sell to both prosumers and enterprises.

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