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Engaging in Product Debates

Sachin Rekhi

As product managers we engage in product debates every day with our design and engineering partners, fellow product managers, cross-functional partners, managers, executive stakeholders, and more. The best product debates help refine our solution, make us better as product managers, and are intellectually stimulating. Yet so often they don't feel anything like that.

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4 CEO Lessons for Mobile Product Managers

Alchemer Mobile

The roles of managing a mobile product team and managing an entire company share many similarities. The biggest difference is that mobile product managers deeply interact with nearly every function within their organization, yet none of them report to them. However, the mental approach product managers need to take in order to succeed is more like a CEO than any other role.

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Just in Time Product Management

The Product Bistro

Product management is a discipline where there is an unending to-do list, a fixed amount of time in the day, and enough outside influencers to make even the best multi-tasker whither and die. Yet good product managers always appear to be in control of the situation. This is a testament to several traits that are […].

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Data-driven sales: 18 sales KPIs and metrics to grow your revenue faster

Intercom, Inc.

There are many parts to a high-performing sales organization – the right people, processes and strategy, to start. But today, the underlying backbone of all of it is the right data. That’s not to say there’s no art to practicing sales. Much of what defines our most outstanding sales reps is their ability to deeply understand our prospects’ and customers’ business needs and speak directly to them.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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2019 Product Conferences

Product Talk

We are starting to pull together our 2019 conference list. This list is by no means exhaustive. If you know of a product conference that is not on the list and you think it should be, please feel free to recommend it in the comments or send an email to conferences@producttalk.org. I haven’t decided what events I’ll be attending in 2019 yet, but as soon as I do, I’ll update this post.

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Product Managers Need to Know Things No One Else Knows. How???

The Product Guy

What is Product Strategy and how can Product Managers develop it. In this talk Vikas also shares some concepts in Strategy and how Product Managers can apply them to make their products more successful. In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation on this topic. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world.

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Tips for creating a great support experience during the holidays

Intercom, Inc.

The holidays are quickly approaching, and for ecommerce businesses, that often results in significantly higher support volume for your team. . To help you stay on top of your support this season – without increasing overhead – we’ve curated a few tips for automating your support load. These tips apply broadly to many different automation products, but if you’re an Intercom customer, they’re actionable today and require no engineering work.

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Sales, Positioning and the Nobody Zone

Product Management University

There’s an old saying: “buyers are liars!” Good sales positioning and discovery techniques can help you understand true buyer motivations so you don’t end up in the Nobody Zone. If you’ve been in sales more than a month you’ve experienced a situation where buyers contact you to gather some must-have information to make an informed buying decision.

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Give Public Speaking a try and get Ready for a Bigger Stage

Mind the Product

We all love to attend product conferences and events like ProductTank. It’s where we learn, where we meet our tribe, and where we exchange experiences. But, as co-organiser for MTP Engage Hamburg (and I’m sure every other organiser of such events will agree), it’s hard to find speakers. It’s not hard to find people with interesting stories to tell, it’s just hard to get them on stage, and that’s sad to see because our community thrives on a sharing culture.

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B2B eCommerce, Self-Service Portals, and PIM Trends for 2024

In 2024, B2B customers expect better quality and service with streamlined experiences that match consumer-grade simplicity—no long calls or meetings required. Our B2B eCommerce Trends Report, surveying 400+ B2B professionals in the US and Europe, reveals how eCommerce has become vital to top companies’ strategies. The report shows how leaders are leveraging eCommerce to break data silos, unify channels, and deliver the personalized experiences that customers demand.

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Product Managers…Take Back Your Time!

The Product Guy

Guest Post by: Chris Martens (Mentee, Session 7, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Vikas Batra]. As product managers, we have chosen a career path in which there are ever-changing demands on our attention. Often, we feel that there is not enough time in a day to get everything done or to handle all of the priorities in front of us. Instead, we run from one action item to another, trying not to fall behind.

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How to get up and running with Messenger Apps using ngrok

Intercom, Inc.

Back in April, we released our biggest ever update to our Messenger – we completely rethought how a messenger designed for business should work. One of the key developments was Messenger Apps, integrations with third-party apps and tools you use everyday. These are built right into the Intercom Messenger and can be installed from our Intercom App Store , or you can build them yourself.

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Product Management Responsibilities: Eventually, It’s About Products

Product Management University

Product management responsibilities look completely different if you view them through the lens of the customer. For solution providers though, products are the basis for all things revenue and that can cloud the true objective of a product management function and how it operates. Success in product management and product marketing is first and foremost about understanding what your target customers want to accomplish and why it’s a priority.

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Driving Growth vs Building Core Value by Roan Lavery

Mind the Product

Summary: Product managers always find themselves trying to make disparate groups of people happy. FreeAgent has created a three-step framework to help manage this process across organisations. It starts by defining the core value of a product, in a way that everybody can understand, and then maps user journeys, at varying points of the user’s lifecycle.

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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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Effecting Change in Executive Product Leadership

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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How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product/Market Fit

First Round Review

Superhuman founder and CEO Rahul Vohra walks us through the framework his startup used to make product/market fit more actionable, detailing the survey and four-step process that were key to measuring and optimizing it.

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The Clever PM is Going on Hiatus…

Clever PM

It’s been four years since I started the Clever PM blog, mostly as a way to keep up my skills during a downturn in my career. I never imagined that this blog would reach thousands of people a week, that my newsletter would exceed industry standard open rates every single month, or that my Twitter […].

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Why Simply “Allowing” Mistakes is a Dead-end for Agile Companies

Mind the Product

Managing culture can quickly become one of the most complex challenges for companies that seek to scale agile practices. If self-organization and continuous improvement aren’t already tricky enough in a team of 10 individuals, they represent a daunting challenge when teams grow to the hundreds (not mentioning companies of thousands of people). Scaling agile practices [1] in a company requires strong cultural foundations, as you build understanding and trust, between – and within – te

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Holly Hester-Reilly on Product Science and Experimentation

Amplitude

Holly Hester-Reilly has a fascinating, experiment-driven meets systems-thinking perspective on product management. Prior to jumping into product roles at Shutterstock and Media Math, Holly studied chemical engineering, and practiced research science for several years. It is safe to say that “Experiment” is not a word she throws around lightly. In 2017, Holly was a guest on the This is Product Management podcast.

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How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product/Market Fit

First Round Review

Superhuman founder and CEO Rahul Vohra walks us through the framework his startup used to make product/market fit more actionable, detailing the survey and four-step process that were key to measuring and optimizing it.

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Mapping the Customer Journey

Haines-Group

Land maps exist to record the actual terrain, not an idealized view of the terrain— the REAL terrain that you will have to traverse, like it or not. With this real-world understanding of the terrain you can plot the most effective path through it. [Of course, if you fail to identify a cliff or a river on the map, the path you plot may lead to tragedy.

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5 Hacks for Better Product Roadmap Presentations

ProductPlan

As product managers, the product roadmap is at the core of everything we do. It is a living document that sheds light on what’s happening today, tomorrow, and in the future. The product roadmap is a key point of reference to keep product strategy, business objectives, and execution aligned. When properly shared and evangelized across an organization, a product roadmap can unite, motivate, and align cross-departmental teams to achieve more.

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The 25 Types of Innovation Dominating R&D Today

Innovation varies widely across sectors and organizations, creating value in diverse forms. Understanding different types is crucial for R&D teams to foster creativity and uncover missed opportunities. This guide explores 25 key types of innovation in management frameworks.

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TEI 202: How smart product leaders are leading transformation in their organization – with Kyle Nel

Product Innovation Educators

Using science fiction and storytelling to reshape company culture from the inside out. Product managers and leaders can have a dramatic influence on an organization. Our influence extends beyond the revenue generated by the products we help create. We have an uncommon perspective in organizations as our work requires significant cross-functional interactions and knowledge of other functions.

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How can Cloud Players benefit from Technographics?

DemandMatrix

The cloud computing industry is not new, yet it is always in a state of flux owing to the range of offerings such as public versus private versus hybrid, and IaaS/PaaS/SaaS/NaaS/ FaaS. The industry is set to grow fast, about 17.3 percent in 2019 to a total of $206.2 billion, up from $175.8 billion in 2018 (Gartner). More growth will come from more services and more competition.

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How Op-Eds Can Make Product Visibility Catch Fire

Pragmatic Marketing

Op-eds have received a lot of national attention recently. From an anonymous White House official sharing his (or her) opinionated observations with the New York Times , to taking a stance on Nike’s motive to use a controversial figurehead to sell shoes. While op-eds are often used to push political agendas, they can also be used by marketers to share perspectives on new products and innovations entering the marketplace.

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It’s Time to Chart a Better Product Management Career

The Product Guy

If you are a great product person looking for a great product job, or vice versa, check out our job board. Thousands of employers across all areas of product, from management to design, from digital to physical, are looking to fill positions from our community. . Each week we highlight some of the recently posted openings. Check out this week’s newest, below….

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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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How an Innovation Factory Scales Innovation

ProductCraft

It’s a bit of a seductive thought that the grass is always greener on the other side. It’s human nature to think: “if only I had x, or y, then I could really succeed, really make a difference.” In several of my previous positions at design agencies, I remember how we’d find ourselves sitting around. The post How an Innovation Factory Scales Innovation appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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It’s time to monitor your competition using Technographics

DemandMatrix

Marketing is increasingly becoming more and more data-driven. This is old news. But this is also why Marketers are moving beyond traditional data sources such as social demographics and firmographics, and aligning more with other kinds or sources of data, in order to unlock deeper insights about their current and potential audience base.

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Want to Land Speaking Engagements? Here’s How

Pragmatic Marketing

Whether you’re just getting started as a speaker, or are looking to take your speaking career to the next level—whether you’re a paid speaker or an unpaid speaker (or both)—you need to understand the tricks of the speaking trade, and what you need to do to get off your chair and out onto the stage more frequently. Many people are unaware that the vast majority of speaking engagements are not paid engagements.

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