Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Through market research, she discovered her ideal customers weren’t whom she initially expected. Today we’ll learn how to overcome some of those challenges from a product leader with experience at Target, McDonalds, eBay, and Meta, and now as Founder and CEO of Taelor.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

This is largely caused due to not researching enough around the market you are building for understanding the target audience and spending enough time with your customers to build empathy for them and understand their pain points. How Products Fail Without Customer Empathy. First Principles of customer empathy.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 29, 2022

How product managers can understand their customers better than anyone else. If you have listened to me before, there is a good chance you’ve heard me say we need to fall in love with the customer’s problem, not our solution. Getting enamored with our solution can distract us from the customer experience.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

When you start interviewing customers every week, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by how much you are learning. When we use our customer interviews to collect specific stories about past behavior, every conversation can uncover dozens of unmet customer needs, pain points, and desires (AKA opportunities).

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Product Management University

MARCH 2, 2025

Sure, there are customer and prospect scenarios where great demo skills are highly beneficial for product managers, but most product manager demos are to internal audiences. It connects the product to desired customer outcomes and pain points and builds excitement across the organization. Heres why it matters: 1.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 10, 2022

With infinite choices and limited bandwidth, how do you decide what to prioritize when it comes to improving your mobile customer experience? Learning more about your customers is the best place to start. Step #1: Capture mobile customer feedback. Don’t forget to share customer feedback with other teams in your organization!

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Product Talk

JULY 8, 2020

As you collect customers’ stories, you are going to hear about countless needs, pain points, and desires. Our customers’ stories are rife with gaps between what they expect and how the world works. Each gap represents an opportunity to serve your customer. But our job is not to address every customer opportunity.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 1, 2020

Today, customer expectations are at an all-time high. A proactive customer support approach is the key to regaining control. But this approach not only overwhelms your team, it also means customers frequently have to wait hours or even days to get the help they need. What is proactive customer support?

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The Product Guy

MAY 30, 2019

Hypotheses are only useful if we test them (with customers), to validate or discard them. As an example, our problem statement could be: Customers encounter a series of friction points when embarking on a shopping journey in a large supermarket. The problems to solve: customer impact and business impact.

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UX Planet

MARCH 9, 2025

It recommended to focus on two important points: Purpose: Clearly state the purpose of the redesignwhy the business should invest time and money in it and what it will help the business achieve. For example, product redesign will help us improve engagement rate by 30%. Example of pain points that offline shopper experiences.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

According to Gartner , companies that properly use customer journey maps are twice as likely to outperform their competitors that don’t. But to unlock such effective results, first, you need to know how to create impactful maps—which is what these 8 customer journey map examples are for. Creating user personas.

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Userpilot

MARCH 9, 2025

What happens when you build a product or service around what you think potential customers want, only for them to buy something else? For starters, it shows you dont know your customers well enough. But worse than that, it leads to lower revenue, failed products, and plummeting customer loyalty. The short answer: yes.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 1, 2024

How product managers can design their customer experience journey We all want to create products that customers find valuable and even delightful. How can using the customer experience journey help you make better products? Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [2:26] What is the customer experience journey?

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2022

A customer journey can be defined as the interactions a customer has with your brand from the very first time they engage with you to the point of purchase. What are the steps of the customer journey? At each phase of the customer journey there are touchpoints. What is a customer journey map?

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Product Talk

JULY 3, 2024

When we interview customers , our goal is to learn as much as we can about their context. This will help us understand their specific needs, pain points, and desires (otherwise known as opportunities) which will inform our product decisions. ‘Atypical’ is not necessarily a bad thing when it comes to customer stories.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

Highlight Relevant Experience: Share examples of similar challenges youve tackled in the past to build confidence. Address Pain Points Proactively: Regularly ask for feedback to show you value their input and are ready to adjust course. Use it to identify impactful actions that demonstrate your ability to deliver results.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Why does the outcome focus on business value and not customer value? Why can’t you just generate opportunities from what you know about your customers? How do you represent customer segments on an opportunity solution tree? Examples of Opportunity Solution Trees What are some examples of opportunity solution trees?

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The problem with asking people to explain the processes and pain points they have within the B2B space is that, at its most basic, you’re asking someone how they do their job and people are a little too used to talking about this to think about it creatively without prompting. Make discovery memorable. Promote Higher Order Thinking.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Looking for real-life customer-led marketing examples that worked to get inspiration for your own campaigns? You’ve probably had enough theories already, so this article cuts to the chase to show you examples from top brands that are killing it with this approach. Calendly includes its customers in growth loops.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Recently, Hope Gurion walked through three scenarios where she argued teams might benefit from including customer segments on their opportunity solution trees. You’ll see as we revisit Hope’s examples that this theme will recur throughout. Scenario 1: Uncovering Potential Customers. I can’t emphasize this enough.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Customer interviewing is one of the most valuable activities a product team can do. It’s simply the easiest, most sustainable way of learning about your customers and what they need. Customer interviewing is one of the most valuable activities a product team can do. What doesn’t count as a customer interview? Tweet This.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

How do you know that the product you’re developing will actually create value for customers, that they’ll love it, and that they’ll buy it? Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [6:08] What tools or processes do you use for customer research? It’s our job to fix those problems for the customer.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

His answer intrigued me because it identified a clear pain point that isn’t getting enough attention. As the title of this episode conveys, our discussion will weave together topics for aligning customers’ needs and business strategy. 14:27] What did you do to better align customer needs and business strategy?

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Customer support is more business-critical than ever. But in today’s fast-paced world, your customer support can only be as effective as the technology that underpins it. Study after study shows that the vast majority of support teams are unhappy with their current customer support tech stacks. The future of support is here.

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Product Talk

JUNE 2, 2021

Let’s walk through an example. It starts with focusing on the customer. The team isn’t likely to reconcile their personal preferences about what they should build, but they can find alignment by developing a shared understanding of what their customers need and want. They have several key decisions they need to make.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 19, 2024

“We’re not competitor-obsessed, we’re customer-obsessed. We start with what the customer needs and we work backwards.” – Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon. For product managers, the path to success—both on an individual level and for the company as a whole—depends on a deep understanding of their customers.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 26, 2022

Yes, product and pricing are still important ingredients – but, a great customer experience is the secret sauce (chef’s kiss). Here are 5 ways e-commerce companies can improve their customer experience: Act on customer feedback. Maintain an omnichannel customer experience. Prioritize meaningful customer engagement.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 20, 2020

As customer success managers, we wear many hats. We need to stay on top of market trends and product updates, all while making sure our customers become wildly successful. During times of rapid change, juggling everything on our plates, along with everything on our customers’ plates, can feel like a herculean task.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 18, 2021

Good product discovery includes the customer throughout the decision-making process. Good product discovery includes the customer throughout the decision-making process. Good product discovery includes the customer throughout that process. If we are lucky, we might do some customer research at the beginning of the project.

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Product Talk

JUNE 19, 2024

But when we use generative AI to replace customer interviews , to generate opportunity solution trees , or to do our thinking for us, we fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of discovery. Discovering unmet customer needs, pain points, and desires—AKA opportunities. The opportunities represent customer value.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 14, 2020

As customers expect more and more out of support experiences, support leaders can risk burnout on their team to meet the escalating demand. But even for larger teams, an influx of customer questions can overload agents, leaving them frustrated and overworked, and in turn, not able to provide great support.

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Userpilot

JUNE 4, 2024

Looking for a customer behavior analysis example to see how you can extract valuable insights? In this article, you will also learn how to conduct customer behavior analysis step-by-step and how Userpilot analytics can help. To gain meaningful insights, the analysis should focus on specific user segments.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Without effective UX analytics that goes beyond collecting data, you’re losing valuable customers. Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. But over time, customer needs evolved. I will discuss why in just a second.

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2024

Customer perception can make or break your brand reputation. But why is customer perception important, and how can you improve it? Let’s explore what it is and how to measure it, then look at 10 ways to make customers look at your brand with a positive lens and increase product engagement !

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 18, 2021

In previous episodes, we’ve talked about how customer feedback and cross-team collaboration play a crucial role in the features and updates we build here at Intercom. Or rather, two – conversation topics and custom reports. I mentioned at the start our company values: obsessesing over our customer success. Thomas: Awesome.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 12, 2022

One of the biggest challenges that business owners or product managers (PM) face is figuring out what their customers want. Too often, we ask customers what they want, instead of asking what they do. Instead of asking customers what they want, ask them what they do. Your customer is not the solution designer.

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