The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The journey to product-market fit might seem random, but it actually has a well defined high-level structure. Here is part two of the guide that will help you find your way to product-market fit. This is an important principle in the product-market fit journey.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The fact that your potential customers have a problem, doesn’t mean that they are willing to do what it takes to solve it. Each one ran a series of tests over a few hours, and told me I’m a good fit for the surgery. As a product leader, you must define not only the problem you are solving but also for whom.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Customer experience isn’t just for products. As an employee, you provide customer experience to your manager, your colleagues, and your own employees. There are many things to take from it, but I mainly took the fact that you need to think about the customers from their point of view. Is it a great one?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 13, 2022

This might sound counterintuitive, especially with product-led growth (which I’m a big fan of) practically saying the opposite, but bear with me and I’ll explain everything. Your Customers Don’t Want Your Product Of course, eventually, they do. And the customers are left confused. And the customers are left confused.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

As long as I talked about product consulting, even when people understood that I only coach them and did not do the work myself, they mostly wanted feedback on their deliverables — the actual screens, app, or capabilities the product had. Not all companies, even ones that are truly user-focused, sell this way.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2022

Bad Feedback Doesn’t Always Mean Your Product Is Bad Bad product feedback is a bummer. But contrary to what you might think, it doesn’t always mean your product is bad. Here is a quick guide to strategic thinking about product feedback. The feedback on all three talks was great.

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Userpilot

MARCH 28, 2022

Content marketing vs product marketing? The goal of any marketing strategy is to attract and convert members of your target market into paying customers. But what is the difference between content and product marketing ? The advantages of both marketing strategies. Definitely not!

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The Product Coalition

MAY 6, 2023

Your customers seem to want new features all the time. If they use your product, that’s a great signal — it means they care and they want to do more with it. Today I want to talk about a specific type of saying ‘no’, one that not many product managers even realize is an option: saying ‘no’ to customer requests.

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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. If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

How many times have you heard the phrase “It’s research, it will be ready when it’s ready”? If you manage AI products, the answer is probably “many”. AI product management is a unique beast that can be quite challenging, but there are ways to make it easier. In algorithmic research, this is very prominent. Here’s how.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Once you decide you need to recruit a product manager, who should it be? This is one of the most popular questions I receive from my consulting customers as well as CPO Bootcamp participants. The first thing you need to figure out is why you are hiring a product manager. But starting early is not enough. Here are my best tips.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 25, 2021

the research articles, the important topics and revelations, and as you move towards the end, the articles become lighter: interviews with celebrities, lifestyle pieces, and so on. Last week, one of my customers consulted with me on what is the best metric to trace for the migration from an old system to a new one.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2022

I realized that this is something that I do whenever I’m helping my consulting customers or the CPO Bootcamp participants to make strategic decisions. about the market, the customers, the product, the business, the plans ahead? But that’s where your leadership comes to a test. the structure of the word.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2022

Product managers need to talk to customers. Here is what my boss once taught me about how to really listen to our customers. Photo by David Clode on Unsplash In SVPG’s Coach the Coaches workshop held last month in London, Marty Cagan talked about the fact that product managers must have direct access to customers.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

The Product Leader Certificate requires a little more PM experience and demands competence in DevOps, data analytics, and hard technical skills. Key takeaways include product strategy , user research, and the UX/UI design process. It explores product leadership fundamentals and managing growth, among other takeaways.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 27, 2021

Creating a solid product strategy is an ongoing process, not a one-time effort. Once you created a first draft that you are happy with, it’s time to bring it to the market and iterate according to the feedback you get. But how can you test a strategy? It’s actually simpler than you think.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2023

A successful product can only work if people actually buy it. But too many product leaders focus on the product itself and not on what makes it sell. As product leaders you cannot ignore the full customer journey to make sure it makes sense. It appears in your product itself. Hint: it’s not features.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

I have seen so many frustrated product leaders facing a similar situation. It can be with your CEO or anyone in the management team, with internal and even external customers, and honestly, with anyone important enough for their opinion to matter and make you change your plans. I’m talking about your customers.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In this post, we’re going to provide you with the best Product Marketing tools for each Product Marketing Job-To-Be-Done – which are critical for allowing your product marketers to do their work independently from your dev team or graphic designers! Post-signup: User Analytics : Hotjar , Heap.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Spend an adequate amount of time researching the answers to the questions above. You need to research deep because what you see on the surface isn’t going to give you the answers. 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.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 13, 2023

But to truly solve customers’ problems, founders and product leaders must think beyond what they already know about the product. But that leads to another problem — how do you know which product to create? How to solve a certain customer problem? Real invention is hard, that’s why real innovation is hard.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Ford’s famous quote tells you exactly how he wanted it done: “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants, so long as it is black”. The target audience in this case was very specific (although very wide, and that’s also an important part of product-market fit). What was so special about it?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

You have users and even happy customers, but the next level of success is yet to come. It is also tempting to think that the problem is not with the product, but rather with marketing or sales that are unable to bring customers fast enough. It is usually when things work, but not getting on a roll business-wise.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Every now and then, early-stage founders approach me to hear about their product idea and give them feedback. This mostly happens with products related to the product space itself — products for product managers and product teams. I see them everywhere, and apparently, they see me too.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You’re investing resources in hiring and training the right people, tracking different metrics at different stages, adding more and more complexity with each increase in headcount, use cases, and customers. Natasha Ratanshi-Stein is the founder of Surfboard , a software company that offers scheduling tooling for customer support teams.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2021

For example, I have seen product teams that create OKRs around meeting with customers, and engineering teams that created OKRs around closing the tech debt. The problem with this approach is that it leaves a huge gap in the company’s ability to deliver on its top OKRs: the product itself. Is that realistic?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

When people (and VCs) aren’t spending money easily, you must be super sharp with your value proposition, positioning, product, marketing, and sales. While I understand this distinction, I believe that a company cannot reach real product-market fit without nailing down its GTM, and vice versa.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 11, 2021

We have three distinct products: the ad-supported video streaming platform, which is what we started with four years ago; a subscription version of the business with ad-free content; and exclusive original content. We also have a kid’s product, with ebooks, video games, audio stories, videos, movies, etc.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Photo by Iain Kennedy on Unsplash When I was a product lead at Imperva, there was a feature that engineering kept telling me required a rewrite. We were monitoring our customers’ databases, and the architecture caused a severe performance impact on the databases themselves. Its entire architecture was bad.

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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. not necessarily in planning it but in making sure that it is fit for whatever value the company is looking to bring to their customers.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2021

For example, when you simply want to have something out there as quickly as possible, not because you want it to work well, but because you want to use it to learn something much more important about your customers. There is risk in delivering something that will not bring results, and there is risk in delivering the perfect product too late.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Thinking and talking about the product definitely falls under this category. When it comes to the actual work products that product managers deliver: wireframes and user stories. considering all relevant points of view including the customers, the market, and the company itself. But Do You?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2021

I created a model called “The Product Circuit”, which I have since used in product strategy processes with dozens of companies and in my lectures when I explain the journey to product-market fit. The problem definition also includes the customer segment you are addressing (who are you solving it for).

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Here are three reasons that companies often use to explain why PLG is not a good fit for them. While you can’t do PLG without being and product-led company, the other way around is not necessarily true. In a product-led company, the product team has a strong presence in the business organization. Then, they see a demo.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 18, 2020

A good product strategy helps you to acquire happy customers and retain them over time. Here is how product strategy helps you overcome them. Photo by Braden Collum on Unsplash Working on product strategy is an iterative process. If the baton falls somewhere in the process, they will not become a customer.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2021

The reason I am telling you that is that whenever I talk about the fact that your product needs to solve a problem (or serve a need) for your target customers, people bring up Facebook as a theoretical counterexample. While this might sound like a product issue, the root cause is typically at the problem level.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 30, 2021

But most of all, it is exciting because it gives you an opportunity to see your strategy coming to life in short cycles with immediate feedback loops. The general process of product-led growth starts with mapping the customer journey?—?the You can start by making small changes to your product and marketing (e.g.

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