The Secret PM Handbook

JANUARY 7, 2018

It’s exciting to see the first review of The Secret Product Manager Handbook ! I encourage to you visit Product Bistro , read the review , and check out some of Geoff’s other articles on product management and product marketing ! You can also follow him on Twitter at @prodbistro.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 13, 2019

The first strategy of that next wave of growth is to expand your addressable market. How to expand your market. There are three ways companies typically expand their market: By expanding to other verticals. In B2B, that is companies who start by selling to smaller businesses and then expand to mid-market and enterprise.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 5, 2017

A big part of our job is finding these market problems, customer needs and desires. Market research. There are lots of ways to find market problems or customer desires, and I have several earlier posts that cover some of these techniques. Finding and validating market problems is not a one-time thing. The story so far.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 14, 2024

The company shares internal meetings on YouTube, maintains a public issue tracker for projects, and provides a 2,000-page handbook detailing their operational procedures. This dedication to transparency has enhanced user trust and encouraged community engagement, retention, and growth. Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 9, 2024

He’s most recently the author of Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution: A Handbook for Entrepreneurs , hailed by Steve Wozniak as the “Bible for entrepreneurs.” The ultimate measure of product-market fit is customer retention. Achieving product-market fit requires patience and iteration.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 27, 2023

After working in R&D, Finance, Sales, and Marketing she focused her career on various areas of innovation and new product development. The award started in 1988, and in 2004 the OCI committee was asked to write a chapter for the PDMA Handbook of New Product Development about the OCI award. Intense front-end focus is also important.

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Gainsight

MARCH 29, 2022

Across the globe, SaaS products are flooding the scene, and the market is becoming saturated with competition. Here’s why product-led growth strategies are absolutely essential if you want to grow in today’s competitive SaaS market. How is the SaaS market changing? And that’s caused SaaS companies to race into the market.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 27, 2018

Check out Finding Market Problems Resources for a bunch of ideas and guides from me and others on how to do that.). The post “I Have An Idea” – How I Evaluate Product Ideas appeared first on The Secret Product Manager Handbook.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2024

Users don’t know what an Automated Market Maker is. While these guidelines are aimed at aiding users with disabilities, they form a robust foundation for elevating the user experience for all. A couple of examples: Users don’t know the real value of every transaction they make. The mental model: I am exchanging money.

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The Secret PM Handbook

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

” In that post I focused especially on what you do with the market discovery knowledge you get from customers once you found it. Bob described the benefits he’s getting from the product, in his own words (which can often be directly used in marketing and sales engagements). You can guide the Market Discovery conversation.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 10, 2018

All your messaging is marketing, both before and after the sale. So in-app marketing is especially key to engaging and retaining the users you’ve worked so hard to acquire. This guide is for marketers interested in learning more about the tools of the trade and the various types of in-app marketing – and the ways to use them.

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The Secret PM Handbook

APRIL 18, 2018

Start your story with the challenge that someone - you, your customer, your market - was or is facing. “I If you start using this structure for telling your stories about yourself, your customers, and your market, your reputation will soar. But if you’re like I was, you don’t quite know what goes in each section. Here’s what you do.

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The Secret PM Handbook

OCTOBER 9, 2018

We’ll assume the challenges in selling are that Marketing isn’t finding the right prospects and Sales doesn’t know how to sell to them effectively. In fact, if you triangulate to any go-to-market methodology, or sales methodology, those are the basic points. Follow the rules.

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The Secret PM Handbook

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

” Does your salesforce complain “We don’t get enough leads from Marketing, and the leads we get aren’t any good?”. Marketing Uses Product Knowledge To Know Who To Target. The job of Marketing is to find people to buy your product. The fact is that Marketing doesn’t decide who to target. Click To Tweet.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 5, 2017

A big part of our job is finding these market problems, customer needs and desires. Market research. There are lots of ways to find market problems or customer desires, and I have several earlier posts that cover some of these techniques. Finding and validating market problems is not a one-time thing. The story so far.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 7, 2023

Getting something to market and getting funding override any other concerns. Here’s a graphic from Socal CTO that illustrates the roles as they change over time: In its earliest days, a startup’s top need is often to produce a product. That’s why the CTO’s attention is on programming for the earliest stage.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Over the years, I’ve learned a lot through both successes and failures, and these are my top 5 strategies in scaling SaaS businesses from $1M to $500M in revenue: Expand your market. Find product market fit again and again. Figure out how your product can solve the problem you originally solved, but for a broader set of customers.

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The Secret PM Handbook

JULY 20, 2018

As an exercise for myself, I decided to take a mental model that’s usually used for decision making – a 2×2 matrix – and apply it to marketing. One thing we have to do in the go-to-market portion of our jobs is come up with good ways to talk about our product versus our competitors. More reading on 2x2s.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 18, 2017

Doing a great job of go-to-market is one of my passions. I love working with marketing and sales to make sure they can sell my products effectively. But as I wrote the recent post on how my various articles align with the Secret Product Management Framework I realized I didn’t have many articles on go-to-market.

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The Secret PM Handbook

OCTOBER 1, 2017

He’d led a team, to create a solution, for someone else, that had market value. How they took the solution to market, perhaps. appeared first on The Secret Product Manager Handbook. And he had to ensure that his design could be manufactured on the customer’s existing machines. We Like People Who Build Things.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 11, 2017

Are there any segments of our target market who are onboarding quickly? This looks a lot like “ growth hacking ” – “a process of rapid experimentation across marketing channels and product development to identify the most effective, efficient ways to grow a business” – and it’s based on the same set of tools.

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The Secret PM Handbook

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The most important activity we have as product managers is finding market problems to solve. Calculate how much time you’re spending today finding market problems. So, when you talk to your execs about agile , don’t talk about agile, talk about delivering value to market faster. Are you doing enough of that? Click To Tweet.

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Lenny Rachitsky

AUGUST 22, 2024

So if you don’t share your opinions and market your wins, you’ll limit your career progression. To balance learning and impact in your career, alternate between roles where you’re the expert and roles where you’re acquiring new skills. Introverts need to learn to speak up.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 1, 2024

This sounds outrageous, but although it is challenging for corporations to innovate and get into a market ahead of a startup, it does happen far more often than we realize. Our second book, Corporate Explorer Handbook , says that as management consultants and academics we don’t know all the answers.

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The Secret PM Handbook

OCTOBER 21, 2017

We product managers are always told that we need to spend a lot of time with customers, and with the market, to create successful products. It’s challenging to find the signal – market problems – in the noise – our conversations with customers and prospects. The signal you get from the market is weak.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

We find and validate market problems for which customers will pay for a solution. And then we take the solutions to market. Finding market problems. Over the years I’ve written quite a bit about finding and validating market problems. How Badass Are You At Finding And Validating Market Problems?

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 18, 2024

For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com. Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed.

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Sequent Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The role of a product manager is the linchpin in product development, overseeing the entire lifecycle from inception to market launch. They delve deep into market research, analyzing customer needs and market trends, translating these insights into product features and enhancements.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The author of The Secret Product Manager Handbook , Nils Davis, joins us to discuss his tips for better presentations. As product managers, we have three big constituencies — our customers, our dev teams, and our go-to-market team. Useful links: Nils’s book, The Secret Product Manager Handbook. Innovation Quote.

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The Secret PM Handbook

JUNE 16, 2017

And what happens when you introduce higher quality products to market faster? Let’s say that improving the team’s performance results in a 10% improvement in time to market, which results in a 10% improvement in being able to close sales. But now my revenue is $11 million in the quarter because I got better product to market faster.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MARCH 28, 2018

In my articles about go to market , I always mention the importance of “customer stories.” These stories are a critical component of the knowledge that product management can provide to sales and marketing and sales engineers to help ensure sales success. We were losing market share to our competitors, and my job was on the line.”.

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The Product Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2024

Renowned for her practical approach to aligning product, marketing, and sales strategies. Kyle Poyar An authority in product-led growth, pricing, and SaaS market strategies. He is all about helping companies by fueling growth and making them market leaders. His primary focus is on providing practical and in-depth career advice.

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Sequent Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Driving Business Success through Product Management Expertise Market Impact : Product Managers possess the capability to steer products that align seamlessly with market needs, driving revenue and market share.

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The Secret PM Handbook

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

” In that post I focused especially on what you do with the market discovery knowledge you get from customers once you found it. Bob described the benefits he’s getting from the product, in his own words (which can often be directly used in marketing and sales engagements). You can guide the Market Discovery conversation.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MARCH 28, 2018

In my articles about go to market , I always mention the importance of “customer stories.” These stories are a critical component of the knowledge that product management can provide to sales and marketing and sales engineers to help ensure sales success. We were losing market share to our competitors, and my job was on the line.”.

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The Secret PM Handbook

JANUARY 15, 2018

The market segments to attack – that is, the people who have the problems our product solves, along with specific qualifying questions to ensure we’re talking to the right people. Marketing can create programs that pull the right prospects. It’s Not Their Fault appeared first on The Secret Product Manager Handbook.

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