Mind the Product

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This is a critical step, as the real user need is the seed from which any effective product has to grow. Understand Your Competitors Through Market Research. So, a product manager should clearly identify their position in the product lifecycle and map out their market research strategies accordingly.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Understanding Stakeholder Dynamics Stakeholders in product management aren’t just limited to your direct team; they encompass leadership, cross-functional teams, customers, and even external partners. Expectation Management : Different stakeholders will have different expectations of the product and the roadmap.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2022

With marketing insights, product marketing teams can locate marketing channels that bring the most valuable customers. Product managers can use marketing data to improve customer experience. In a nutshell, insights help SaaS companies understand the customer journey better and find growth opportunities.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Customer insights provide intelligence and analysis about customer experience, activities, and preferences. Therefore, they are vital for effective product strategies and ensure resource allocation aligns with customer needs. Purchase data to find conversion drivers that influence users to purchase a plan or upgrade.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

We launched UserMuse with what we believed to be a deep understanding of our primary market: product managers at B2B software companies. Our beliefs about them have mostly held up, except the big one of them being our primary customers. The user researchers use our platform for pretty much the same reason product managers do.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

To create a successful product strategy, you’ll need to research your market , identify your target audience, and define your unique value proposition. Next, create a product roadmap that outlines your product development process and a pricing strategy that keeps you competitive. There are four key steps to follow: 1.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Good product teams understand that their customers’ needs and behaviours are ever changing and the way to truly predict what impact any update will have is to try it on a small set of real customers. Here are 10 guidelines to design high impact experiments.

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Userpilot

JUNE 30, 2023

Looking for the voice of the customer questions to understand your users, analyze the market, and unlock growth opportunities? In this article, we will cover the voice of the customer methodology. We’ve handpicked the right survey questions under different research categories to make everything easy.

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Userpilot

JULY 16, 2024

We covered everything you need to know, from technical skills and responsibilities to a step-by-step roadmap for getting started. A traditional product manager prioritizes understanding customer needs and market trends. Create a product roadmap so you can prioritize features more easily.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 13, 2020

Together they talk through what they want to build, and then the POM handles some of the the more nitty-gritty tasks, like data gathering and market research. However at Stripe, Product Ops’ primary focus is on providing value for the user. By handling a lot of the micro-level tasks, they free up PMs to work on a macro-level.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Want to analyze customer needs in a way that will benefit your business? In this article, we feature the nitty-gritty of customer needs — from the fundamental meaning and types of customer needs to the most efficient method for conducting a customer needs analysis and acting on customer data for business growth.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

A user needs analysis conducted with product analytics data lets you build products that address user pain points and exceed their expectations. In this article, we dig deeper into what user needs analysis is and how you can get started with it. It also enables you to understand user pain points and preferences.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Customer segments enable you to find/understand your target audience and boost engagement, making them an important marketing tool. TL;DR Psychographic segmentation is a marketing strategy that divides the market into smaller groups based on personality traits, lifestyle, social class, attitudes, interests, and values.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Their responsibilities include product discovery, developing product vision, prioritization , roadmapping , analyzing product performance and its iterative development, and leading the product team. Product marketing sits between product development and the market. What are the responsibilities of product managers?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. Such a strategy helps the team put themselves in the shoes of the users, better understand their needs and pain points , and make the user experience consistently good at all stages of the user journey.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 26, 2022

What we’ve witnessed among our customer base is this: companies that continue to optimize their SaaS product tend to grow faster, and sustain their customer base long-term. Engaging customers can mean everything and nothing (depends who’s saying it ??), SaaS companies need to have products that put the customer front and center.

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Userpilot

MAY 29, 2024

The product design process extends beyond the product designer's role, often requiring cross-functional collaboration among product designers , visual designers, UX designers, researchers, industrial design specialists, marketers, and engineers. Conduct user research to understand your target audience.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

A well-defined product strategy contains four key elements – the product vision , target customers , goals , and product initiatives. To create an effective product strategy, you must first study the market to understand your target users and make sense of market trends.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

We'll take you through idea generation, market research, defining a minimum viable product, building new features, managing the launch, and beyond. This could be a relatively low-fidelity prototype or a fully working MVP with just enough functionality to add some value to your users. Ready to get started?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Extensive market research is essential to assess the competitive landscape, identify opportunities, and shape the product vision. Product management involves analyzing user experience , so a product manager needs to be able to use a range of techniques to do it effectively. Product manager skills: market research.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 27, 2022

They’re also investing in activities that help them better understand their market and customers. We’ve identified 12 types of tools to include in your product stack , ranging from asynchronous communication tools such as Slack and Microsoft Teams to user tracking and analysis tools including Pendo and Amplitude.

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Userpilot

JULY 22, 2024

TL;DR Product expansion refers to any step a business takes to expand its market share. A well-executed expansion strategy leads to increased sales and market share, improved customer satisfaction , and better competitive advantage. However, expansion poses three broad risks: new market, operational, and financial challenges.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

ChatGPT can create broad multi-year roadmaps that prioritize the most critical feature requests , ideas, or improvements. Use ChatGPT to understand the motivations, goals, and frustrations of your users. Create detailed user personas and craft targeted stories for these personas. ChatGPT performs market research.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Product service management is a marketing function whose objective is to keep track of customer and market need fluctuations and inform product development. That’s because a big part of the role involves collecting and analyzing market and consumer data to guide product development. Are you ready for the deep dive?

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 18, 2015

Over the past year at LinkedIn I developed a strong appreciation for using Net Promoter Score (NPS) as a key performance indicator (KPI) to understand customer loyalty. Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a measure of your customer's loyalty, devised by Fred Reichheld at Bain & Company in 2003. How NPS is Calculated. Additional NPS Questions.

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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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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The best product research tool for your business can provide the data you need to make informed decisions for product development , allow you to conduct market research, and mitigate risks associated with product launches. A heatmapping tool for collecting user engagement data and enhancing user experience.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Product managers conduct primary and secondary market and customer research to find the target market and identify opportunities that existing products don’t satisfy. Market research, differentiation, and positioning are necessary to prepare for the product launch. Conduct market research.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 22, 2024

In this article, we dive deep into what a product marketing framework is and explore its essential components. TL;DR A product marketing framework is a structured but flexible approach to positioning and promoting your product. This means collecting feedback data to measure customer satisfaction.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 10, 2023

This article explores every stage of the process and shares some of the best practices that will help product managers deliver delightful user experiences! TL;DR Product discovery is the process of researching customer problems that need solving and developing solutions they’re ready to pay for. Let’s get right to it!

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Userpilot

AUGUST 10, 2022

A Minimum Marketable Product (MMP) is a more developed version of the MVP and it is ready to be sold to customers. A Minimum Lovable Product (MLP) delivers value to the customers just like the MMP and helps establish long-term relationships with the customers. The MMP targets the actual customers.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

Product management delivers value in many ways: it aligns teams with organizational goals, focuses on customer needs , and drives product success by delivering products that make the lives of users easier. Champions a customer-centric approach. Plus, when you satisfy customer needs and wants, you get rewarded with their loyalty.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We also look at the levels of seniority among product managers as well as the skills they need to lead successful teams and build products that delight customers. Irrespective of the type, all product managers must have some common key skills, like strategic thinking, leadership, and customer empathy. Managing the product roadmap.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Why is customer segmentation so important for your SaaS? A small number of customers could be your main contributors to revenue and have the highest growth potential. Yet, you might be focusing on the larger group of customers that helped establish your product but are slowing churning. What is Customer Segmentation?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

Typically, product managers are responsible for market and user research, product discovery , feature prioritization , and roadmapping. A degree in business, marketing, computer science, engineering, and data science can give you the foundation for a typical career path in product management.

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Userpilot

JUNE 12, 2023

Marketing surveys let you understand brand perception, analyze customer sentiment , and identify improvement areas. TL;DR A marketing survey uses well-crafted questionnaires to gather information about your target audience and their sentiment on your company and competitors. What are marketing surveys?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 15, 2023

Start by conducting extensive market research to understand the landscape, map out the needs of individual users to understand pain points, develop a clear value proposition, and then define key performance indicators to measure progress against. Launch phase. Post-launch phase.

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