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Persuasion Tips For Product Managers

The Secret PM Handbook

After a few well-received presentations to senior executives, a few colleagues at my new company asked me, based on the positive effect I got, “Can you give us some tips on persuasion?”. I’ve been doing product management a long time, and over time my presentation skills have just naturally gotten more polished. A lot of it seems like second nature to me.

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The #1 Answer in Product: It Depends

Mind the Product

The internet lends itself to binary positions: you’re either for something or against it, advocating it or decrying it. It’s not just Twitter’s 280 characters that limit us to this black and white thinking, most blog posts and conference talks seem to follow the same trend. And I’m not even talking about politics. Waterfall vs Agile. Qualitative research vs Quantitative data.

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License to sell: 5 strategies to hit your sales quota

Intercom, Inc.

In sales, there’s one number we obsess over – our quota. As soon as one month ends and another starts, we can’t help but ask, how am I going to hit my number? Yet for all the time we spend thinking about it, many of us don’t have a game plan. As an Inbound Sales Development Rep, I face the challenge of not having any control over the leads that get passed to me.

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Product vs. Project Management

The Product Bistro

While there are article after article posted about the difference between the product manager role and the product marketing manager role, there is one more relevant comparison that ought to be made, how does a product manager differ from a project manager. Why should we care about this? When I was was posting job req’s, […].

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Usage-Based Monetization Musts: A Roadmap for Sustainable Revenue Growth

Speaker: David Warren and Kevin O'Neill Stoll

Transitioning to a usage-based business model offers powerful growth opportunities but comes with unique challenges. How do you validate strategies, reduce risks, and ensure alignment with customer value? Join us for a deep dive into designing effective pilots that test the waters and drive success in usage-based revenue. Discover how to develop a pilot that captures real customer feedback, aligns internal teams with usage metrics, and rethinks sales incentives to prioritize lasting customer eng

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Mobile Product Manager vs. Mobile Product Owner

Alchemer Mobile

Agile teams have a lot of moving parts, and it can be difficult to understand where product responsibilities fall across team members. And a mobile product manager or mobile product owner role can be difficult for only one person to take on. Mobile product managers spend time straddling two worlds: the external customer’s world and the internal team’s world.

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How Typeform’s Intercom app is growing value for users and the business

Intercom, Inc.

We’ve just unveiled our new publicly available Intercom App Store and rolled out a bunch of new features to make building apps on Intercom even easier at the same time. Among those features are tools and capabilities that enable anyone to build an app that can be used in the Intercom Messenger. We released a beta version of the features earlier this year to a small group of developers, including Typeform.

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Musing on the Future of Work

The Product Bistro

Watching a British Police Procedural – Line of Duty, and at the end of a “Season” they did a run down of the investigating team, and one statement caught my attention, that one DC (Detective Constable), had passed her test and was now a DS (Detective Sergeant). This caught my ear, because it is a […].

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The Simple Tool That Revives Employee Motivation

First Round Review

At Pinterest and LinkedIn, product leader Jack Chou learned firsthand how vital it is to zero in continuously on what keeps people motivated as a company scales. Now Head of Product at Affirm, here are the four components of workplace motivation that he leans on from the start.

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A Flop or a Bull’s-Eye by Julia Weiper

Mind the Product

As product managers, our job is to make the right decisions. However, as human beings, our decision-making is constantly impaired by systematic cognitive biases, making it really hard to decide objectively and rationally. For example, we look up to our most successful peers and are therefore biased to follow industry leaders such as Spotify, Soundcloud, or Google.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Product Design For Kids: A UX Guide To Children’s Minds

UX Studio

We don’t know what kids want, like, expect or think, says Kid UX Designer Sabine Idler. Product design for kids poses its own challenges. Throughout childhood, kids’ physical and cognitive abilities change, and so do their digital preferences. This quick guide will help you through the first steps of the design process. We also attempt to blow away the myth that designing for kids would be easy or dumbing things down suffices.

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Meet the Intercom App Store: Helping customers and partners grow

Intercom, Inc.

It’s rare that one product manages to solve all of your needs or the needs of your customers – no matter how extensive or well designed it is. We all use a plethora of tools to collaborate, communicate and get our work done on a daily basis. Each product used is only one tool of many at our disposal. At Intercom, we believe that tools should be adaptable to your needs and not the other way around.

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The Simple Tool That Revives Employee Motivation

First Round Review

At Pinterest and LinkedIn, product leader Jack Chou learned firsthand how vital it is to zero in continuously on what keeps people motivated as a company scales. Now Head of Product at Affirm, here are the four components of workplace motivation that he leans on from the start.

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Kids’ Video Game Obsession Isn’t Really About Video Games. It’s About Unmet Psychological Needs.

Nir Eyal

Many parents are concerned with their child’s seemingly obsessive video game play. Fortnite, the most recent gaming phenomenon, has taken the world by storm and has parents asking whether the shooter game is okay for kids. The short answer is yes, Fortnite is generally fine. Furthermore, parents can breathe easier knowing that research suggests gaming […].

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How To Select the Right Software for Innovation Management

Finding the right innovation management software is like picking a racing bike—it's essential to consider your unique needs rather than just flashy features. This oversight can stall your innovation efforts. Download now to explore key considerations for success!

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What to do in your new product manager job?

The Product Guy

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2017, Melissa Perri. Watch now and see why she is counted amongst the ranks of the best in product management. More to Come. The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy and The Product Group.

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Why you Should Create a Person, not Just a Persona

Mind the Product

Sarah Collins is 26 years old. She graduated from Nottingham University with a degree in Communications and moved to London. She took a job as a social media manager for a small travel company. She’s having fun, gets to visit new places, and loves her new life in London. However, she feels like something is missing. Through her job she’s met many strong, opinionated people who she leans on for support.

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Sometimes Failure is the Best Result

Clever PM

As a Product Manager, it’s in our bones to always do the best job possible, to deliver the best product possible, and to satisfy the most customers possible. But what if I told you that by always succeeding, we’re actually hampering ourselves? While it might feel good to hit a home run every time you […].

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Kids’ Video Game Obsession Isn’t Really About Video Games. It’s About Unmet Psychological Needs.

Nir Eyal

Many parents are concerned with their child’s seemingly obsessive video game play. Fortnite, the most recent gaming phenomenon, has taken the world by storm and has parents asking whether the shooter game is okay for kids. The short answer is yes, Fortnite is generally fine. Furthermore, parents can breathe easier knowing that research suggests gaming […] The post Kids’ Video Game Obsession Isn’t Really About Video Games.

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How To Set Up Innovation So That It Aligns With And Enables Corporate Strategy

Speaker: Paul Heller

Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. As a result, the products that arrive in the market are not well aligned with the company’s goals. This challenge is particularly significant in organizations with transformation-oriented strategies, where innovation must directly support growth, scalability, and strategic pivots. In this session, we will discuss why innovation in large companies is so often not aligned with the company’s strategy and what innovation leaders, pro

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Digitally Transforming Language, One Buzzword at a Time

ProductCraft

Skip to content. ProductCraft by Pendo. Subscribe. Best Practices. Perspectives. Profiles. Debates. Podcast. #ProductStack. Esoteria. Digitally Transforming Language, One Buzzword at a Time. By Tricia Cervenan – Aug. 3, 2018. Share Post: Monday, July 30, 2018. 6:32AM Local Time. Team, I would like to drill down and double-click into the next-generation vision for the organization that will revolutionize disruption.

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The big move: Becoming the only remote member of a collocated team

Miro

The big move: Becoming the only remote member of a collocated team Perhaps this situation sounds familiar: you’ve been working at a company for a while in their main office. You like what you do, but one day, something happens in your personal life that triggers a move to somewhere well beyond a reasonable commute. […]. The post The big move: Becoming the only remote member of a collocated team appeared first on RealtimeBoard Blog.

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 Marrying Up: Partnering With Big Companies

Pragmatic Marketing

The competitive landscape for software companies, driven by venture-backed startups and disruptive business models and technologies, has only become fiercer in today’s economy. Small players have to make good use of whatever means they have at their disposal to break free from the pack. One strategy to make that leap is to partner with a larger, established company whose scale and resources can quickly take the product well beyond anything the startup is capable of on its own.

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Announcing Research Hub [Product Announcement]

UserInterviews

Months in the making, full of your feedback, and poised to make your research operations way more seamless, Research Hub is here!

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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6 Ways The Product Manager is the CEO of the Product (and 1 Way They are the CFO too)

The Product Coalition

The comparison has been around for a long time?—?the product manager is the CEO of their product. It’s become ingrained in our thinking and the way we talk about product management. For newcomers, it’s an exciting concept. Everyone wants to be the CEO, right? Make decisions. Create vision. Command respect. But is it true? Is the product manager the CEO?

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IoT and the Energy Storage Revolution

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

In this episode of the IoT Product Leadership podcast, we talk about energy storage revolution and the key role IoT plays in this new era of distributed energy. We also talk about the challenges of building end-to-end IoT solutions both from a Product perspective as well as the internal organizational challenges that arise when building such […].

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 Marrying Up: Partnering With Big Companies

Pragmatic Marketing

The competitive landscape for software companies, driven by venture-backed startups and disruptive business models and technologies, has only become fiercer in today’s economy. Small players have to make good use of whatever means they have at their disposal to break free from the pack. One strategy to make that leap is to partner with a larger, established company whose scale and resources can quickly take the product well beyond anything the startup is capable of on its own.

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Product Bookclub #8 | Marty Cagan, Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love

BrainMates

Another great evening at Product Book Club last week, when we got together to discuss Marty Cagan’s revised classic Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love. Thanks Julian for always being ready to give a summary for those who haven’t read the book (and a refresher for those of us who have, or have made a wholehearted partial effort). Should you read the second edition?

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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Release Notes: Summer 2018

Amplitude

It’s been a busy summer for us at Amplitude. Below is a summary of what’s new in the product. Chart and dashboard co-ownership for easier collaboration. Ever wanted to collaboratively build charts and dashboards with your coworkers? With co-ownership, several people can each make changes to a shared chart or dashboard, just not at the same time (you’ll get a friendly warning if you try).

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The Research Hub Story

UserInterviews

You asked for it, so we built it! With Research Hub, we're making it easier for researchers to recruit and manage prospective and existing users. do both in a single place so now, it's easier than ever to talk to the right users at the right time. All from one place.

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What Is Value-Based Pricing?

Pragmatic Marketing

Value-Based Pricing (VBP) means to charge what your customers are willing to pay (WTP). This is a simple concept to understand and probably impossible to implement. Every buyer has a different WTP. Perfect VBP implies we can read each buyer’s mind and charge them that one price exactly equal to their WTP. Using today’s technology, this is still impossible.

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