Mind the Product

OCTOBER 11, 2019

If building products is hard, positioning your product is harder. No matter what you build and sell, how you position your product dictates what you do. How you prioritize, marketing campaigns, sales strategy, it all changes based on how your product is positioned. How do you position your product? So where do you start?

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Userpilot

JULY 22, 2024

Product positioning is crucial in product management to attract prospects and stand out in your niche. But how can you start crafting an effective positioning strategy that appeals to your target audience? TL;DR Developing a solid product positioning strategy involves several key steps. Understand your competition.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Why does the outcome focus on business value and not customer value? Why can’t you just generate opportunities from what you know about your customers? How do you represent customer segments on an opportunity solution tree? What if you are being asked to deliver more than one outcome? How do you find opportunities?

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

And while opportunity solution trees have become increasingly common among product teams, there’s still plenty of room for customization, both in the way you set up your trees and the tools you use to build them. It felt like 10+ years of experience, from customer development to Jobs Theory all in one actionable package.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The Solutions Value Chain is a framework that helps you uncover real, strategic value for your customers—from the top of their organization all the way down to the people in the trenches doing the day-to-day work. Of course, every product company wants users to love their products—no surprise there. What is The Solutions Value Chain?

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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

JULY 9, 2024

What is a customer experience management strategy? We also share best practices for product teams seeking to optimize their strategies and enhance customer engagement throughout their journey with the product. Implement tactics to enhance customer experiences at various touchpoints. Why is it important? How to create it?

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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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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

Customer insights enable SaaS teams to understand them better and build products that satisfy their genuine needs. From the article, you’ll learn about different kinds of customer insights (from product analytics and only) and the benefits of gathering them. Let’s dive right in! Book the demo to find out how!

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 16, 2015

When it comes to customer validation, the most important piece of advice I can give you is exactly what Steve Blank has been prescribing all along: to get out of the building and talk to potential customers and eventually actual customers leveraging your MVP or later product iterations. Customer Validation Process.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2022

Customer relationship management (CRM) is a strategy and methodology that revolves around using data and feedback to build authentic, meaningful relationships with prospects and customers, keeping them connected and loyal to your company. What is customer relationship marketing? .

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Userpilot

MAY 20, 2024

The customer sentiment score can help you tell how well-perceived your brand is. Let’s explore the customer sentiment score, how to measure it with user feedback , and what strategies you can execute to elevate the customer experience. But how can you measure and improve it? A good sentiment score varies by industry.

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Userpilot

JULY 24, 2024

Outline your unique value proposition (UVP) and come up with a differentiation strategy to help differentiate your product. Define your positioning and messaging to get a clear idea of how you’ll promote your product once it’s ready for your target market. What is a product strategy framework?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

What customer discovery questions should product managers ask to accurately identify the unsatisfied needs of potential customers and validate ideas? TL;DR Customer discovery questions enable product teams to better understand customer needs and problems so that they can build products that the potential customer truly needs.

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 15, 2024

It’s driven by tools like ChatGPT and Gemini, and nothing has captured attention quite so effectively since social media hit the scene promising free technology to get closer to their customers. It works at scale across numerous internal and external sources of customer feedback to provide powerful CX insights.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

Here’s an example template for crafting an effective vision statement: “To [solve a problem] for [target users] by providing [unique value proposition] , leading to [positive impact or transformation] within [timeframe].” Let’s break down each element: The Problem: Clearly state the problem or pain point your product aims to solve.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

TL;DR Market gaps are the disparities between what customers need and want , and what the market can deliver. A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Your colleagues, especially customer-facing ones, can offer valuable insights into unmet user needs and shifts in the markets.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

Whether you’re launching a new product or refining your existing offering, a competitive analysis will equip you with the insights needed to make data-driven product improvements , outsmart your competitors, and better serve your customers. Get your free Userpilot demo today! Why should you conduct a competitor analysis?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

A well-defined product strategy contains four key elements – the product vision , target customers , goals , and product initiatives. To create an effective product strategy, you must first study the market to understand your target users and make sense of market trends. There are 11 main product strategy examples in SaaS today.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

By adding delight to the product, you increase product stickiness and enhance customer satisfaction. This happens because users find interactions with the product rewarding. Delightful products are also full of personality, so users develop human-like relationships with them. First, they satisfy real user needs.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 3, 2023

Sales demos are one of the easiest ways to boost your credibility with prospects and customers. A good sales demo creates that critical moment of differentiation that makes your product the obvious choice in a sea of competitors. Research Your Target Customer. Learn as much as you can about your prospective customer.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Gathering meaningful insight from your customers is a challenge for any product manager: what you need is a handy user persona survey template to help you capture it… We’re here to help! In this article, we’re going to explore how user personas can help you gather and utilize customer insight more effectively.

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Userpilot

MAY 2, 2024

Customer retention is vital for product success and business profitability. TL;DR Customer retention is the ability to keep your customers actively using their products. Key metrics to measure customer retention include customer retention rate , customer churn rate , customer acquisition cost, and customer effort score.

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BrainMates

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Product positioning is an important part of a product marketing strategy. It helps buyers and users understand where a product ‘fits’ in terms of what it offers and how it compares with competing products so that they can select the product that will best serve their needs. Why does product positioning matter? Easy as S-T-P.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Differentiation : Strategic messaging highlights what makes your brand unique, showcasing features and benefits that set you apart from competitors. This enables you to tailor your marketing messaging and create targeted campaigns to address specific customer problems instead of churning out something generic. User persona example.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 1, 2024

How product managers can design their customer experience journey We all want to create products that customers find valuable and even delightful. How can using the customer experience journey help you make better products? Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [2:26] What is the customer experience journey?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

How do you cut through the noise and ensure potential customers notice your product? When implemented well, it can help you attract customers, improve in-app engagement , and drive long-term retention. This approach begins by offering customers a taste of your product through a freemium model , free trial , or interactive demo.

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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. What is the customer development process?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 16, 2020

They weren’t excited about the deals we closed or the customers who were singing our praises. This level of cross-functional cohesion isn’t just a nice-to-have for the people on your sales teams; it’s also a strategic differentiator for your business as a whole. Focus on the customer. Solve pain points and problems.

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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. “We have combined messaging and positioning into one document, and have it built out for each product, solution and industry,” she said.

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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. “We have combined messaging and positioning into one document, and have it built out for each product, solution and industry,” she said.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Great SaaS customer support is the key to keeping your customers happy and satisfied with your product. It powers your customer relationships, enabling you to build lasting connections with customers. This article examines how to create an exceptional customer support strategy.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

Different written and visual methods can be used to detail problems that target user experience as pain points. A separate set of both written and visual techniques can be used to define solutions that should be implemented in software to address the pain points. Focus on Core Problems. Written Methods.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 20, 2024

How can message mapping support your company’s communication with customers and drive product engagement ? TL;DR A message map is a document outlining what and how the organization should communicate with customers, aimed at helping teams articulate a clear and consistent message about the product. Let’s get to it! Book the demo!

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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 23, 2024

Product positioning strategies are not only a marketing tactic but a survival strategy. In this article, we’ll go over product positioning definitions and their types, then go over our process for creating a product positioning strategy that gets positive user feedback.

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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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