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The Best Way To Understand User Needs and Pain Points Without a Big Research Budget

The Product Coalition

Understanding user needs and pain points is essential for building successful products and services, but that doesn’t mean we need to get stuck going down a multi-month research hole in order to be “ready” to collaborate, innovate, or prototype. These forums offer rich insights around needs and pain points.

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6 Customer Communication Pain Points in SaaS + How to Resolve Them

Userpilot

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. Better customer support. Increased retention.

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Moving from reactive to proactive customer support

Intercom, Inc.

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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CX expert Annette Franz on putting the ‘customer’ in ‘customer experience’

Intercom, Inc.

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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Opportunity Mapping: An Essential Skill for Driving Product Outcomes

Product Talk

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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Key Best Practices for Using Customer Feedback

Folding Burritos

As Product Managers, we perfectly understand the need to generate and use customer feedback. This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. Feedback is only relevant vs. a goal and user context. Understand where it’s coming from.

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Core Concept: The Product Trio

Product Talk

This style of working also often results in designers and engineers working as what Marty Cagan of Silicon Valley Product Group calls “mercenary teams” instead of “missionary teams.”. They interview customers together. This is why so many projects end up over budget, under scope, and late. Tweet This. Tweet This.