Product Talk

JUNE 19, 2024

But when we use generative AI to replace customer interviews , to generate opportunity solution trees , or to do our thinking for us, we fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of discovery. My advice in this article may not stand the test of time. Discovering unmet customer needs, pain points, and desires—AKA opportunities.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

A marketer or market researcher may view patterns in terms of demographics and buying activity. A user researcher or other UX practitioner may group users by patterns in their behavior, both inside and outside your product. User personas stand in for users throughout the design of your product. Sad but true.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

How to Find Product-Market Fit “Main reason why most of the products fail is due to lack of product-market fit.” ~Dan Dan Olsen Product-Market Fit is inarguably one of the main factors deciding on product success or failure. But what product-market fit is, exactly? target customer and underserved needs.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 16, 2015

In my previous post I detailed how I typically go about documenting the initial set of product/market fit hypotheses for an early stage startup and each of the key elements that are important to capture as part of it. So heed Steve Blank and Jared Spool's advice and get out of the building and talk to your actual customers early and often.

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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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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The key isnt just understanding users but unlocking insights that lead to solutions they cant live without. Product discovery is critical in identifying workflows, pain points, and user goals that shape successful products. Insights into user behavior guide decision-making, ensuring solutions align with expectations.

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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

APRIL 30, 2024

Customer feedback can be a goldmine of valuable insights for SaaS companies seeking growth. But how does one actually go about collecting feedback , prioritizing it, and using it to make key product decisions? Valuable feedback usually comes from power users or those who are well-versed with your product.

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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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Alchemer Mobile

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The chart below ranks impact on a five-point scale with one being minor impact and five meaning severe. Key findings from our research include: Looking at DAU over time is the best way to understand drastic changes in app usage. The data used throughout this post is from anonymized, US-based Apptentive customers’ iOS apps.

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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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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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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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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In hopes of finding the next big idea, many turn to their most loyal users for feedback and inspiration. And often enough, that feedback leads to useful improvements. In this article, I talk about spotlight vision, when and how to switch focus, and provide six research ideas to consider when ready to broaden the view.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

In an era defined by relentless innovation and unprecedented customer expectations, the nature of financial services marketing has changed. Todays customers expect financial brands to deliver deeply personalized, seamless digital experiences at every touchpoint, consistently reinforcing what they stand for.

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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. Target Audience. Problem You're Solving.

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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

JULY 29, 2019

It often delivers a user experience that leaves much to be desired. 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. Requirements for Building a Bank.

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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. Tracking user behavior in-app enables product teams to find ways to improve product experience. Here are 10 tried and tested ways to do it!

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Userpilot

MARCH 31, 2023

TL;DR Product evaluation surveys are customer research tools used to assess how users feel about your product experience at different stages of the customer journey. They help the product manager track changes in user sentiment, help them gather feedback , and understand customer needs.

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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. 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.

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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. These folks are analytical ninjas.

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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. The product team at Going includes product management, product design, UX research, and a flight experts team.

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Userpilot

MAY 8, 2024

If your product doesn’t satisfy customer needs, its future looks bleak. You won’t be able to retain your users or convert them into paying customers. You will learn about different types of customer needs and how to identify them. You will learn about different types of customer needs and how to identify them.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

With a Master’s degree in human-computer interaction and over two decades of experience in user research and user experience in companies like Oracle, he now leads the design team across all product offerings at IBM. User research is a vital part of the design process. Since Thomas Watson Jr.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Why should you use customer discovery? How can product managers use it to test assumptions and uncover opportunities? Using Discovery to Test Assumptions and Uncover Opportunities by Susan Stavitzki. Customer discovery is the process of identifying, defining, and prioritizing relevant user personas.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 16, 2018

What are your customers’ needs? Focus on core customers and their needs – It sounds so simple and trite but I learned that customers and their needs can be quickly forgotten or deferred as operational activities, organizational changes, cross-functional agendas and other distractions arise on a day-to-day basis.

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Userzoom

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

If you’re in the process of democratizing UX beyond the boundaries of your own UX team, and equipping other people in the organization with the skills to run their own research, s tandardization can increase efficiency and helps set expectations of what’s involved in a user research project. UX Researcher | GrubHub. “It

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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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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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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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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. TL;DR Consumer behavior examines how people and organizations make buying decisions. Economic Model.

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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

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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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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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? You’ll need a platform to do this.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

User-centricity: A well-defined vision keeps the focus on the end users and their needs, ensuring that the product remains relevant and valuable. Let’s break down each element: The Problem: Clearly state the problem or pain point your product aims to solve.

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