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5 User Pitfalls to Avoid

The Product Guy

As Marc Wendell described in a Product Mentor video, the foundation of success in both product management and user experience (UX) is solving a problem for a specific user. Products fall short when they include and/or over-prioritize extraneous features that don’t solve that user’s problem. Asking the wrong users for input.

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Jobs to be Done Interview Tips for Product Managers

The Product Guy

I prided myself on knowing my customers. When I built a new feature, I knew exactly who would benefit from it and knew who to call for feedback. I had many, many more customers (millions more), but no way of segmenting these customers into personas or roles like at my previous job. But that was my old job in edtech.

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A Designer’s Perspective on Working with Product Managers

The Product Guy

We like to get painful user problems to solve. You can ask me to change the color somewhere or put a button on a screen, and I will probably do that, but I really like to get challenging problems where I can do my research build prototypes, do user tests, and come up with a solution that will raise our product to the next level.

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Make New Product Features Stick

The Product Guy

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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How ZoomInfo Enhances Your ABM Strategy

For marketing teams to develop a successful account-based marketing strategy, they need to ensure good data is housed within its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. According to Forrester Research, only 8% of marketing professionals have confidence that their data is 90-100% accurate. Not so fast, though.

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Writing a Book: How Continuous Discovery Helped Me Write a Better Book

Product Talk

This need is what led me to think about and design the opportunity solution tree. When I finally wrote about the opportunity solution tree (back in 2016), I knew that it was a big enough idea that I would need to write a book about it. I know many authors who use their blog as a way to test content. That was a start.

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The top marketing statistics for 2018 and why they matter

Intercom, Inc.

At the same time, consumers are complex creatures – we’re constantly evolving and tuning out marketing noise. As marketers we’re always yearning to understand how consumers want to engage, and increasingly, that’s through the personal, real-time, device-agnostic medium of messaging. 1.5X: In-app messages are 1.5 Engagement.