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

Product Talk

I know many authors who use their blog as a way to test content. So I put the book on hold and started devising a plan to test my content. This gave me a great feedback loop to measure the efficacy of my content. Some teams got stuck because they couldn’t find customers to interview. I knew I needed more feedback.

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Managing Product Feedback at Scale

As with all things related to customers, there’s an art and science to effectively dealing with each of their ideas. In this eBook, we’ll show you: How to gather, prioritize, and select the best ideas from your customers and stakeholders. How to make internal feedback more effective and inclusive.

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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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Four Key Product Management Lessons from a Product Manager at Mailchimp

Alchemer Mobile

What have been your favorite ways to connect and get feedback from your customers? If you want to learn about machine learning, learning about A/B testing and SQL is a great way to intro into that because it teaches you the fundamentals machine learning is built on. Because you’re never going to find the perfect fit.

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Why Product Led Growth is a Customer Success Responsibility

As the eyes and ears of an organization, Customer Success can drive acquisition, expansion, and retention. But without a clear understanding of a product’s capability, or the value it creates for customers, churn is unavoidable.

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How ZoomInfo Helps Overcome the Top Pain Points of Inside Sales

With more access to user reviews, analyst opinion, and industry research, decision-makers are more informed than ever while navigating what is now known as the “buyer’s journey.”. Download this eBook to find out! Recent digital transformation has shifted the B2B landscape by ushering in the era of buyer empowerment.

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How to Overcome the Pain Points of Your CRM

The promise of a CRM ( customer relationship management ) led organizations to believe each could digitally transform its businesses through tracking touchpoints throughout the buyer’s journey. Leading integrations that fit directly into your CRM and workflow. It’s no secret, only 13% of salespeople are satisfied with their CRM.

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The Power of Conversation Intelligence

Looking for tools to surface the voice of your customer? This eBook will answer all your questions and more by providing a complete overview of Conversation Intelligence and its importance in Revenue organizations, delivering impact from your Sales Development Representatives all the way to the C-Suite. Ready to learn more?

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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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Product Market Research 101: A Beginner's Guide to Bringing in Consumer Insights

In this eBook, you will learn how to continuously bring the voice of consumers into product and marketing decisions. Find out how to conduct research surveys that will allow you to confirm product-market fit, and build and launch better products. Get your copy today!

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How to Use Customer Feedback for Business Growth

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.” - Rick Tate. Customer feedback is a crucial element of every product-led growth company: it helps product managers prioritize, build, and sustain their products while working towards business growth. Customer feedback by product lifecycle.

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Managing Product Feedback at Scale

As with all things related to customers, there’s an art and science to effectively dealing with each of their ideas. In this eBook, we’ll show you: How to gather, prioritize, and select the best ideas from your customers and stakeholders. How to make internal feedback more effective and inclusive.