Product Management University

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Here’s a simple example of portfolio positioning and how it makes your product positioning more strategic. Your accounts payable product improves the customer’s cash flow. Your accounts receivable product further enhances cash flow. It sounds strategic. What CFO doesn’t want a stronger balance sheet?

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

At a product-first company like Intercom, our product marketing team has always had a crucial role – and over the years, we have often discussed how we approach product marketing. Of course, not all companies go about product marketing in the same way.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 22, 2025

The most common mistake product marketers make with product positioning is they do it without regard for their salesforces ability to deliver it. Making products easier for the salesforce to sell is the single biggest thing product marketers can do to improve sales of their products.

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Product Management University

MARCH 5, 2025

No matter what role you playproduct management, marketing, sales, customer onboarding, or account managementif your starting point isnt quantifiable customer value, fuhgeddaboudit! Its easy to get caught up in your own goalscorporate goals, sales targets, marketing KPIs, retention quotas. Nothing else matters. End of story.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

From high school to business school, and throughout my professional career, I was supremely comfortable with it , and reveled in solving problems, to the appreciation of my managers, colleagues, and teachers. Management guru, Peter Drucker had said, if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. 2) What should I solve?

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Product Management University

JANUARY 10, 2024

I learned a lot about product positioning long before I ever stepped into a product marketing role. I think of demos as verbal product positioning. In my young naivete, I just figured some people liked my products and some didn’t. That’s where I figured out the number one rule of product positioning.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 19, 2025

Sustainability in Product Development: More Than Just an ESG Initiative Sustainability in product management isnt just about reducing waste. The best teams design for modularity and upgradability, allowing products to evolve with customer needs while minimizing waste. Market shifts determine product lifespan.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Spice Catalyst

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

This is the fourth episode of Product Success Issues with David Fradin, covering Personas, How to do Market and Competitive Research, and the sixteen key significant issues affecting the world that will influence new products and services and changes to existing products and services.

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Product Management University

JULY 18, 2023

Does your product positioning need to be different than your sales narratives? The short and simple answer is no, but it’s highly dependent on how your product positioning is constructed. As a former product marketing manager, I know this all too well and was guilty in the first degree!

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Since this entire series of articles is about the ripple effect of product management, there’s a good chance the content for your product positioning (post 7 of 10), sales enablement tools (post 8 of 10) and marketing launch activities was created in a silo in product management long before the product or feature set was ever built (posts 4-6).

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

If you’re looking to climb the product marketing career ladder faster, here are five things you can do that’ll accelerate your climb. Track Record of Year-Over-Year Product Revenue Growth Not to state the obvious here, but product revenue is always top the priority. I came into a product marketing role from pre-sales.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2024

How product managers should use the five-step model for creating team culture Watch on YouTube TLDR Product managers often face the challenge of significant responsibilities without formal authority. As product managers, we must navigate both these realms. They are leaders who inspire and guide their teams.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 15, 2023

The biggest difference between product management and portfolio management is product management focuses specifically on the success of each product whereas portfolio management focuses on the success of the company (the portfolio) in chosen market segments.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The easiest way to think of product marketing vs. portfolio marketing is the age-old motto, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Your portfolio has more market and customer value than the sum of the products. What is Product Marketing? Product Marketing is Key to Portfolio Marketing.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Consider the fact that portfolio marketing just might be your ticket to strategic product marketing in its purest form, making everything a lot easier with better results. What is Portfolio Marketing? In a portfolio marketing model, your value messaging employs a top-down structure. Here’s why.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

How to achieve product-market fit – for product managers This episode is sponsored by PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association. PDMA is also the longest-running professional association for product managers, leaders, and innovators, having started in 1976.

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Gocious Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

When it comes to leadership in the manufacturing world , product marketers and product managers are like two peas in a pod. Both positions require a thorough understanding of the product and their ideal customer's preferences and pain points.

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Product Management University

APRIL 25, 2023

Product Management Leader), a positioning statement or career objective followed by work experience, hard/soft skills, education, and other interests. For example, if you’re looking for a product marketing role, your H1 headline might be something like “ Making Technical Products Easier to Market, Sell & Buy.”

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Product Management University

JULY 1, 2024

If I were building a product marketing organization from the ground up, I’d consider myself lucky. Most product marketing leaders inherit a team and then face the task of shaping it to meet their ideal make-up and the desired goals of the organization. You’re sandwiched right between product management and sales.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Product marketing roadmaps aren’t a staple in most B2B organizations, but there are a host of reasons they should be. The biggest reason metaphorically speaking, is they willingly “fence the salesforce” into your most lucrative markets and give them a shorter path to meeting sales quotas and revenue goals.

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Product Management University

JUNE 21, 2023

Developing a content strategy for product marketing requires an approach similar to product positioning. Executing a solid content strategy can keep the sales mantra of “the leads we get from marketing are crap” at bay! In the nursing department example, staffing and scheduling issues speak to the nurse managers.

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2024

Overlapping responsibilities and conflicting priorities are just a couple of the many friction points between product managers and product marketing managers – leading to inefficient workflows and potential product failures. Product managers focus on building the right product.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 1, 2024

Product marketing is the process of bringing a product to market, and a well-curated product marketing strategy is key to understanding customer needs and driving adoption. TL;DR A product marketing strategy is a roadmap for how a new product will be positioned, priced, and marketed.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2020

Fundamentally, being a Product Manager is all about making sure that the right decisions get made, and for me the hardest decision has always been “what shall we do next?”. At the time of working through this process, my product had just been ‘launched’ after 2 months of private beta testing. More About The Product Mentor.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 5, 2024

The right product marketing messaging framework can dramatically change your product’s position in the market and your product management outcomes. Let’s explore: What a product messaging framework is. ” It positioned itself as a central hub for work activities.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 3, 2019

Mapping current products, future ideas, and quick experiments as product managers. Product roadmaps are one of the best-known tools and also the most misused by product managers. This time we talk about the role of roadmaps in portfolio management. In the process, she about doubled her salary.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 12, 2024

They may abandon the page if the messaging and positioning are confusing or contradictory. Anthony Pierri knows this, and after helping over 200 businesses improve their homepage, he’s hosting the talk “ How to Rewrite Your Homepage With Sharper Positioning & Messaging ” on October 8th. What is positioning?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Be Prepared to Look after People, Not Products. When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

touches on what startups should and shouldn’t do when striving for product-market fit. Perhaps that’s why Enzo Avigo, CEO of June , reportedly recommends several “dos” and “don’ts” on LinkedIn on how startups can navigate their journey towards product-market fit. Your product changes too fast. CEO of June.so

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

This has been challenging to navigate as there are not many resources available on how to manage not only a maturing product but the changes that come with rapid organisational growth. The founders have filled the role of product manager since the company was conceived and it is difficult for them to hand that management over.

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The Product Bistro

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

My original entrance into Product Management I was an early 30’s applications engineer who jumped into the that role from life as an analytical chemist and process engineer at a wafer fab. Then the original recruiter that got me into product management reached out to me again. But she pointed them at me.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 21, 2019

A customer-centric approach focuses on providing a positive customer experience to drive profit and gain competitive advantage. There is one key tool used by successful customer-centric businesses that most product managers disregard. A product manager manages the product roadmap/product lifecycle.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 11, 2024

Before moving into venture capital, he played a crucial role as VP of Product and Design at Dropbox, guiding the company until its IPO in 2018. Prior to Dropbox, Todd led product management for Twitter’s Content and Discovery teams after selling his startup, Cover, to Twitter in 2014.

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Userpilot

JULY 29, 2024

Looking for the best product marketing campaigns to inspire your next project? We’ve curated 16 of the most innovative product campaigns from industry leaders like Userpilot, HubSpot, and Spotify, among others, that will spark your creativity and help you create campaigns that drive product growth.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 20, 2025

If extended product teams own the product strategies, whats the role of the head of product , also called Chief Product Officer and Director/VP of Product Management, in making strategic decisions ? First, as a coach who offers strategy and leadership guidance to the person in charge of the product.

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