Userpilot

JULY 16, 2024

Are you a SaaS product manager in search of product differentiation examples to inspire your differentiation strategy? In this article, we’ll explore the types of product differentiation strategies and go over cases of real-world brands that have used these strategies to drive product growth.

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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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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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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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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

In this digital-first world, understanding your customers’ experiences is more crucial than ever. To better understand the common challenges organizations face with digital feedback tools, we conducted a comprehensive market research study that revealed several critical pain points.

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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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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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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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Product Management Unpacked

MAY 13, 2020

This approach not only gave the brand man — eventually the brand manager — ownership of a given brand, but it also allowed P&G to better differentiate the various brands in its portfolio. Armed with this insight, he would create and implement a plan that would rectify consumer pain points, aiming for the greatest return on investment.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Even more strategic when customers use both, right? Beyond a healthier balance sheet, why do your target customers care about cash flow relative to their big picture strategy? This is what differentiates you more than anything. 80% of your value story is built around things customers do and why they do it, not your products.

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Mind the Product

JULY 29, 2019

This caused product innovation to be a low priority and the quality of the customer experience to stagnate. Meanwhile, user experiences elsewhere have advanced rapidly through new technologies and improved product practices. More rules and regulations were put in place with banks facing heavy fines for breaches in compliance.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Today, numerous studies echo this sentiment: a recent report from Forrester found that brands with a superior customer experience bring in 5.7 And a recent study from Deloitte found that two-thirds of customers will switch brands entirely due to a poor customer experience. times more revenue than their competitors.

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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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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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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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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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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 20, 2016

While these specific product roles rarely have differentiated titles or formal separate requirements, savvy hiring managers are certainly looking for product managers with specific skill-sets and passion areas depending on the specific product stage and challenges they are solving for.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2022

This ability to shift models, create product lines, and push them out to customers rapidly has changed everything. Which makes customer experience (CX) the most important differentiator and success factor your business has. So, let me cut right to the point. The future of customer experience is engagement.

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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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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This spotlight represents your active customers who are reaching out with their feedback and requests. And customer requests are easy to pay attention to; for any mature company, there will be plenty of them. The problem with spotlight vision is that it can lead to a skewed understanding of the customer base as a whole.

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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. Identify Customer Jobs You need to identify and articulate the tasks customers are trying to accomplish when using a product or service.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 6, 2015

The customer development and lean startup methodologies evangelized by Steve Blank and Eric Ries brought us a better approach that favored experimentation over elaborate planning, customer feedback over intuition, and iterative design over traditional “big design up front” development. Strategic Differentiation. Target Audience.

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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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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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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 helped us set expectations about the “size” of a launch and made sure we were prioritizing the highest impact announcements rather than inundating our customers with updates. How big is the audience?

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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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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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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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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Customer feedback can be a goldmine of valuable insights for SaaS companies seeking growth. TL;DR Meagan Glenn, Senior Program Manager (Success and Product) at Lavender, shares valuable insights on leveraging customer feedback in an interview with Userpilot. Customer feedback should come in daily from various sources.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Using a product with a lot of customer friction is like wearing uncomfortable shoes. In the article, we show you how to identify and reduce customer friction in your SaaS product to boost product engagement. TL;DR Customer friction is the obstacles that customers face on their journey with the product.

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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

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. Analyze in-app user satisfaction using tools like NPS and CSAT surveys.

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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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

From a Product Management and Strategy viewpoint, I believe internalizing this fear of failure drives some of the best outcomes for the organization and its customers. The worst product is the best innovation that your customer doesn’t comprehend or cannot access. it has to be something the customers find valuable.

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Amplitude

MARCH 9, 2020

Our customers use our product intelligence platform to iterate quickly on big bets, and to stay ahead, they will need a platform that can instantly predict which features and campaigns are most likely to cause growth and make faster product bets without extensive A/B testing—they need predictive analytics with causal insights. added over 2.5

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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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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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