The Product Manager Coach Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

When Jane, a seasoned product manager, started her new role at a fast-growing SaaS company, she was ready to make an impact. With the right strategies, you can hit the ground running, build trust, and leverage your expertise to thrive in your new role. But within a month, she felt like she was treading water. The good news?

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. I started my career as a software engineer. How are we building production-quality software? I think that was in 2004.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 26, 2021

Your customers are already on their phones – meet them where they’re at through in-app feedback collection. This eliminates the amount of steps customers have to take to give you feedback, which further increases the number of people willing to give you that feedback. Cart abandonment survey.

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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. Is your tech stack ready?

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. His answer intrigued me because it identified a clear pain point that isn’t getting enough attention.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Firstly, Jeff as a new umbrella brand for all the new services will be providing to our customers; Secondly, a new business line called Beauty Jeff was opening the very first venue in Argentina. It is overwhelming when you get into hyper-growth mode, and it requires process and strategy to continue the success and growth.

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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. UX analytics tools worth considering. But over time, customer needs evolved.

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Userpilot

APRIL 15, 2024

Left unaddressed, customer communication pain points can cause dissatisfaction and eventual churn. We cover: Types of customer pain points. How to identify customer pain points. Six common customer pain points. In-app support strategies to eliminate them.

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UX Planet

MARCH 9, 2025

What parts of the system design will be addressed? This is especially valuable for large systems that contain many different parts. This can include user research and discovery, heuristic evaluation, and results of usability testing. Pain points introduce friction in user experience and reduce the comfort of interaction.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Opportunity solution trees are a simple way of visually representing the paths you might take to reach a desired outcome. These are the customer needs, pain points, and desires that, if addressed, will drive your desired outcome. Below the opportunity space is the solution space. Next is the opportunity space.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 29, 2021

Customers want to be heard. Product feedback is the ideal way to hear from specific customers and understand their needs before they move to one of your competitors. Proactively gathering feedback allows you to quickly identify and solve their pain points. What is product feedback?

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Alchemer Mobile

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

This summer, our team looked at how COVID-19 has impacted mobile app usage patterns by industry. Key findings from our research include: Looking at DAU over time is the best way to understand drastic changes in app usage. For apps in the hardest-hit industries, DAU is down 60-75%. Higher frequency of app usage.

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Userpilot

JULY 29, 2024

Understanding how to identify customer pain points and struggles is the cornerstone of creating a painless customer experience and a loyal customer base. The reason is simple – struggling customers hold the key to sustained product growth. There are different types of pain points.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 10, 2025

In an article published by Barclays customers are looking for ways to spend more wisely to offset growing living costs. Behavioral science and persuasive techniques can offer valuable insights and practical strategies to bridge the gap between intention and action. Recommends an app or savings method, youre more likely to tryit.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 1, 2022

We’ve all heard the term “ customer-centric ” in the context of running a successful business, but what does it really mean? From one perspective, it’s about creating value for customers, delivering an effective product at a good price. This is where customer feedback for sales comes into play. No ifs, no buts.

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Userpilot

MARCH 5, 2025

Are you struggling to make sense of scattered user data? The right customer analytics platform helps you uncover exactly how customers interact with your product: so you can spot issues early, optimize user journeys, and drive sustainable growth. Pendo – the best software for product-led insights.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

But, it’s usually challenging to assess what’s the right way to go about it – how much of iteration should be that from user feedback versus founder’s vision for the product? And, how do you also tell the difference between what feedback to incorporate?

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Userpilot

JULY 29, 2024

Looking for the best customer success management software to power up your product growth strategy, but you are overwhelmed with so many options in the market? TL;DR Customer success software refers to tools that help manage customer experiences and drive customers toward their desired outcomes.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 22, 2021

Product adoption is a key piece of any successful customer acquisition strategy or onboarding program. Understanding how, when, and why (or why not) customers become power users or high-value customers can drive ROI, inform future product roadmap decisions, and lower customer acquisition costs (CAC).

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 24, 2023

A customer feedback repository is the place you keep all your feedback data. What is a customer feedback repository? A feedback repository is a central location where product teams can collect and organize customer feedback. What is the purpose of feedback repositories?

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Userpilot

JUNE 5, 2024

Are you on the lookout for tools that can help you improve customer retention ? There are quite a few solutions around, so it might be difficult to find, especially as we’re not talking about one specific set of tools but rather a whole range of different solutions covering a range of use cases.

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The Product Guy

MAY 30, 2019

Then we think about potential solutions or features. 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.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 10, 2017

Guest Post by: David Parmelee, Digital Strategy Consultant. 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. A software product could overemphasize a feature that its own team just wanted to build.

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 14, 2022

NPS surveys changed the way businesses gauge customer experience and are still widely used today. Over the past two decades, advancement in digital technology and our understanding of customer behavior have changed many aspects of the corporate approach to customer loyalty and emotion. NPS versus NPS+.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This approach focuses on understanding customer needs, generating quality ideas, and turning those ideas into real value. It’s what helps create products that customers love and keeps companies successful in the long run. Staying Close to Customers A big part of successful innovation is keeping a close connection with customers.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 14, 2024

According to the 2024 State of CX Personalization Report by Medallia, customers who go through very personalized experiences rate their overall satisfaction as 9.4 By developing a customer segmentation strategy, you can build the right segments, analyze their behavior, and set tactics to reach them through tailor-made initiatives.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Most businesses design customer experiences from the inside out, based on what is best for the company, when they should be doing the exact opposite. Few people are as passionate about customer experience as Annette, the founder and CEO of consulting firm CX Journey Inc. How to put the “customer” in “customer experience”.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 25, 2024

In today’s competitive landscape, customer experience (CX) stands as a cornerstone of success, particularly in the financial services industry. In our digital world, it has never been easier for customers to switch banks, wealth and investment managers, or financial technologies. And listen!

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Product Talk

JUNE 12, 2019

Two and a half years ago, I introduced the opportunity solution tree. Today, I’m excited to share Hope Gurion’s thoughts on using opportunity solution trees. Like a true Agilist, she hasn’t just adopted the tool, but has iterated on it to better suit her needs. Co-create with customers. Tweet This. . Tweet This.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2024

Looking for the best customer experience management software to fuel growth and drive product adoption ? This comprehensive guide breaks down the top 10 platforms, comparing features, pricing, and benefits to help you make an informed decision. Are you looking to map your customer journey for marketing automation purposes?

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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. Act on customer feedback.

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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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Userpilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

Crafting a winning product strategy is crucial for SaaS success, and finding the right product strategy example can provide all the inspiration you need. This article provides concrete examples of different product strategies employed by SaaS companies. There are 11 main product strategy examples in SaaS today.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

From the article, you will learn why you should develop a value-based growth strategy for your SaaS and how to do it. It also provides examples of SaaS organizations that have mastered it and explains how Userpilot can help you follow in their footsteps. How does it fit into the product-led growth strategy ?

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2024

What is a customer experience management strategy? We also share best practices for product teams seeking to optimize their strategies and enhance customer engagement throughout their journey with the product. Implement tactics to enhance customer experiences at various touchpoints. Why is it important?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Session recordings are digital recordings of user interactions with a website or app. They track every user action, from clicks and scrolls to page transitions and mouse movements, to recreate a complete user journey. When you watch a session replay, it looks like a video recording of the user’s screen.

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