Product Innovation Educators

JULY 29, 2024

By understanding and addressing unmet customer needs, product managers can greatly improve their chances of market success. For product managers aiming to boost their innovation game, mastering these concepts can provide a significant edge in the market. Tony also has 12 patents to his name.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Creating a new product category also creates a plethora of challenges – from spotting the right market niche to convincing customers that yours is a service they need. Nico joined me on Inside Intercom this week, where we discussed everything from the three stages of company growth to how growing companies can address new markets.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

Everyone knows educating the market is hard to nearly impossible, but people always bring up examples like Facebook or the iPhone whenever I discuss it in my lectures. So what can and cannot work when you want to educate the market? Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation, and rightfully so.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2021

Photo by Ono Kosuki from Pexels OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) are a useful tool for goal setting and team alignment, and in recent years they have gone from being used primarily in quantitative parts of the organization (namely sales and marketing) to being very popular in product and technology as well. That’s easy.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

For example, you gain nothing from having a new product if the company can’t sell it to the market, so your roadmap must address also the sellability of the product. This quality translates to many different features and serves as a guideline for many nuances in the product as well as marketing materials. an actual coach quality.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2021

If you’re looking to scale up your SaaS business , you may have considered hiring a marketing agency. Rather than hiring a bunch of marketing people in-house and figuring out a process from scratch, it can sometimes be more cost-efficient to hire an agency, plug your business model into their existing systems, and press play.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2022

I bet with this last name he must have thought about creating such a game long before he actually did it. about the market, the customers, the product, the business, the plans ahead? especially startups on their way to product-market fit, the ARR itself might not be important. What are our goals? Strategy is hard.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Some people swear by the name of it, while others disregard it completely. Product-led growth, on the other hand, is a specific growth model in which the product actually serves as the sales and marketing tool for its own growth. When you are immersed in your existing product, you might miss important signals from the market.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

considering all relevant points of view including the customers, the market, and the company itself. When I send my mentees to work with sales on understanding the customers and the market better , the discussion often gets very quickly into features that are missing in the product. They Don’t Understand Your Role as a Product Leader.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

While creating a new category can be difficult, it’s important to not get swayed by the rules of the market, the competitors, and the customers of an existing one. I realized this market is broken. I think the name has worked out quite well for us in being able to build a brand. It was those two separate points.

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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. The reason we didn’t see them in any of our POCs was because they were targeting a different market segment. The CEO wanted a competitive analysis. Not a single one. With any of our customers.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Usually, when I ask people for their metrics they give me the metric name (e.g. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.ganotnoa.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on October 17, 2021. we are measuring retention).

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

So we are going to create a simple table (preferably in your favorite spreadsheet tool) with the following columns: Customer profile name Customer profile description Value definition Value delivery Value perception Now you can start filling the table, where each row represents a different customer profile.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2022

The reason it took so long is that finding the right product strategy is a bidirectional dance with the market , and we need to take the new strategy attempts to the market and see our potential customers’ feedback before we can get any insight on how it works and go back to the drawing board to make it better and more precise.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 25, 2021

Name the specific skills that they are lacking or are not good enough at, and think about specific examples that demonstrate each gap. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an This part actually requires some preparation. Before you talk to them, make sure you understand exactly what is missing.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

This trust and rapport can yield many benefits for your business whether it’s amazing stories shared on social media accounts, a positive review on your website, or word-of-mouth marketing that brings more people into your rewards program. Whenever you surprise customers, be on the lookout for upsell opportunities.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

It can be heavy to handle, so I see many product leaders investing a lot of time in creating a unified repository of information: everything is in Trello/Monday/Jira/Name-your-favorite-tool. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an It’s in the documentation. Having such a unified repository is great.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

Product management is the name of the profession and also a description of what some levels do. Our free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ” — an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.infinify.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on July 12, 2023.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 18, 2020

In the beginning, you reveal the bigger things that need to change in your current strategy (for example, some companies I work with understand that they need to solve a different problem than the one they are currently solving, or address a different market segment). At this point, the importance of the process is very clear.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

You blame the market, but often that’s just overlooking the real problem. An economic downturn, a war — you name it. Tough market conditions would cause your sales to dramatically drop or even cease. On one hand, that’s expected in a rough market, but is that really the root cause? It’s an opportunity for clarity.

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Centercode

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Target market testers are a wellspring of nuanced, in-the-wild use cases. In addition to the detailed, qualitative feedback testers give during beta and delta, the constant flow of sensor and usage data provides a big, market-aligned data set for training machine learning before release. Who’s Doing It Right.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Unlike what might be implied from the name, the lecture Itai gave discussed writing requirements for functionality that included estimates (in Hebrew), which were features that gained popularity back then. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an It was a great talk and I gave him my vote as well.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

It will also help you develop intuition , which has a bad name in a data-driven world but is actually a super important tool for you to use. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an Write Down Your Raw Thoughts Everyone knows that you only get one chance to make a good first impression?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Pitfall #1: No Long Term Thinking The lean philosophy says you don’t really know what’s happening in the market until you meet the market. Unfortunately, many entrepreneurs are ignoring this difference, and in the name of being lean, are adopting a spray and pray approach: try as many directions as possible, and see what holds.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Marketing needs to know exactly who the target audience is and what value proposition to talk about. Sales need to be able to connect the specific need of that target audience to the actual product, which in turn needs to deliver on the value originally promised by marketing. To be able to get a large number of people interested?—?even

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Here is how a product strategy can help you create business results, even when the market is not in your favor. I sat with an entrepreneur who was helping me with market research for the work I do with startup founders and explained to him what I do. If you feel it touches marketing and sales, you are right.

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UX Studio: Product Management

AUGUST 17, 2018

Estimating market demand and value. Are we targeting the right market? In such cases, professional market research may work better for starters. Download our free ebook now! You googled the term with your city name, and stumbled upon this website.”. How can you put an ebook in the basket on this screen?”.

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Nulab

AUGUST 25, 2021

from marketing and sales to product development and community building. Analyzing their marketing efforts. You or your client should be able to name a handful off the top of your head. But these tend to be typically big-name businesses? — Analyze their marketing efforts. What is a competitive landscape analysis?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 13, 2023

I’d get off the plane and there’d be 5,000 high school kids cheering my name with cars welcoming me to the country. Our free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ” — an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.infinify.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on August 9, 2023.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 6, 2024

This map should be part of your presentation, first in order to help people understand how you define each category, and second, because you want to list the names early on so that your audience doesn’t think that you are not going to address specific competitors. But it’s a teaser, not an in-depth analysis of each just yet.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2021

It leaves no buffers for the unexpected and no time to do “real” work, which is usually the name for work that we need to do on our own, as opposed to just sitting in meetings and helping others make progress. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an Challenging indeed!

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Photo by Pixabay I recently led a product-market fit workshop at a known company in the Israeli tech industry. It is a well-established company, a leader in its domain, but it still needs to deliver new products to the market so product-market fit is a very relevant topic.

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Gainsight

MARCH 7, 2023

To build a durable business in this market, organizations simply can’t increase CSM headcount to keep pace with business growth. There is no named CSM on these accounts; instead, CSMs pool their efforts. For nearly a decade, CS has been built through one-to-one relationships between CSMs and their customers.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 24, 2018

This is essential, because you need to know how you’ll communicate with your potential customers and how your marketing and content strategy will look like. They all have a different level of knowledge about the market, they all have different ways of describing their problems and different ways on looking for a solution for their problem.

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Userpilot

JULY 8, 2024

Examples of touchpoints at this stage include paid ads, blog articles, social media posts, marketing emails, webinars , customer reviews, and referrals. Content marketing Content marketing involves creating and distributing valuable content. Like blog posts, whitepapers, eBooks, or video tutorials.

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Centercode

JUNE 4, 2019

Was it entirely in the name of research? Below is a summary of our discussion on the testing strategies that bring delightful VR products to market. To learn more about the four pillars of CV and how they apply to other emerging tech products, check out our ebook, Customer Validation in 20 Minutes. I’ll let you decide that one.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2022

I am a grown woman who can handle a good compromise in the name of true love. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.ganotnoa.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on May 9, 2022. But I don’t want to be convinced?—?in

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