Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. Here are some patterns I’ve seen in picking successful Heads of Product. What’s In a Name?

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. Initially we worked with a team from ThoughtWorks for 12 weeks. This is what we did. 2012 – the Inception.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

I’m often asked what KPIs B2B/enterprise product folks should use, or what OKRs they should choose. This is (of course) an unreasonable question, as every product/ business has its own uniqueness. Why KPIs from consumer companies don’t fit well with B2B/enterprise. 1] Generic KPIs? But metrics aren’t generic.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

They’re the ones making sure your app is secure, that uptime looks good, and that the rest of your engineering org has the right tools to build features your users need and want. Will Larson has managed infrastructure teams for some of the biggest names in software. product called Yahoo!

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes. No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. The best product managers are in a continuous state of discovery and know that?—? neither the product nor roadmap are ever static.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Which product trends emerged in 2020 and are here to stay? What are the biggest trends in Product for 2021 you must implement into your Product Growth strategy? Who’s who in Product these days? And what new product growth terms made it to our dictionary? Trends to Watch In Product – Table of Contents.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Looking to drive adoption with contextual user onboarding ? As any savvy product manager will know, picking the right tool is essential to the success of your SaaS – so it’s worth taking the time to choose carefully. Another impressive dimension of Userpilot’s software is event tracking and feature tagging.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It was another bad start to what seemed like Groundhog Day. “I I don’t care about outcomes, your objectives, or your key results; I want to know when I will get this feature!” This was the third conversation we were having about the product, an app that served our own company along with external customers.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. You’re investing resources in hiring and training the right people, tracking different metrics at different stages, adding more and more complexity with each increase in headcount, use cases, and customers. For Natasha, the answer is a resounding yes.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

Got Metrics? Metrics that use business relevant data alongside intuitive trending and straightforward analysis provide a strong foundation when managing strategy It took about thirty minutes to get everything together. In only three minutes my executive derailed the effort by asking: “We have metrics, right?” Happiness 2.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 12, 2022

Are you tracking customer success metrics for your SaaS? You can then use customer success metrics to analyze if your efforts are paying off. Let’s dive into the most important customer success metrics and how you can use them to drive your SaaS growth. What is customer success?

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Over the past year, Phil Carter has been developing a framework for growing consumer subscription businesses, called the Subscription Value Loop. This makes products less sticky and retention more difficult. Learn more here.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

From analyzing market trends to churning user needs and technical feasibility into golden product ideas, there are many benefits of ChatGPT for product managers. A potent tool, ChatGPT has proven to be a strategic addition to the product management toolkit, churning out ideas in even the most unlikely scenarios.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. Poor performance includes slow loading times, complex design, confusing navigation, and unresponsive features. Even though they’re the ones using the product.

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Userpilot

JULY 14, 2021

There are plenty of all these blogs “15 alternatives to {Brand Name} that are equally good” that are…plain wrong. Because we’re just a different kind of onboarding tool! ?????. However, it limits its pricing by feature usage – so you’ll need to upgrade to nearly $900 per month if you need e.g. more than 5 segments.

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Userpilot

MARCH 14, 2024

The report allows teams to understand how users navigate their website or application, identify the top pages visited after the homepage, find out what causes friction in the user journey, identify top-performing pages and features, and analyze user paths leading to conversions.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2018

This allowed a passionate audience to develop – and built enthusiasm ahead of the books’ full release. Why does Matt see free products as a tool for growth ? Give us a feel for your career to date: what brought you to Clearbit, and what’s the mission of your team there? PR is an underutilized growth tactic.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Most SaaS companies know that new user onboarding is important, but hardly any of them really nail it. Perhaps that’s because onboarding is a complex process, involving the education of each new user so that they’re satisfied on an individual level with the value they receive from your business. What is user onboarding?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 6, 2023

You have to integrate the SDK (Software Development Kit) of the mobile app analytics solution into your mobile app. This mobile app tracking SDK collects user interaction data and sends it into your mobile app analytics solution, where it will be processed and converted into insights on a dashboard for your product team.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 8, 2020

Whether you’re a Product Owner, VP, manager, or UX designer building better products is the #1 responsibility that lies in your hands. To make decisions, product-oriented professionals need data, you know that already. For this first story, we’ll focus on how UX-data (Users + Experience data) can boost any product.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 26, 2024

Product data capture is essential for SaaS companies looking to understand user behavior, optimize user experiences, and drive product growth. TL;DR Product data capture is the process of collecting, organizing, and managing information about your product. Collect product data through A/B tests.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

? ?. If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. Focus on outcomes over output.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 18, 2024

Looking for an effective onboarding automation tool and wondering if Userlane is the best option for your SaaS company? In this article, we’ll delve into precisely that – helping you determine whether Userlane is the ideal choice for your onboarding automation needs. Looking for a Better Alternative for Onboarding Automation?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 18, 2024

Looking for an effective onboarding automation tool and wondering if Userlane is the best option for your SaaS company? In this article, we’ll delve into precisely that – helping you determine whether Userlane is the ideal choice for your onboarding automation needs. Looking for a Better Alternative for Onboarding Automation?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 19, 2021

Customer engagement and experience are closely intertwined – how you engage with your customers and what they see when they engage with your product will inevitably affect their experience. To measure customer engagement for product companies, you need to avoid vanity metrics like MAU and session numbers.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 20, 2024

Looking for an effective new customer onboarding tool and wondering if Userlane is the best option for your SaaS company? In this article, we’ll delve into precisely that – helping you determine whether Userlane is the ideal choice for your new customer onboarding needs. Let’s get started! Ready to see Userpilot in action?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 20, 2024

Looking for an effective new customer onboarding tool and wondering if Userlane is the best option for your SaaS company? In this article, we’ll delve into precisely that – helping you determine whether Userlane is the ideal choice for your new customer onboarding needs. Let’s get started! Ready to see Userpilot in action?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2020

How should I bring the disengaged users back to my product? Declining user engagement is a slippery slope to churn – every Product Manager’s greatest nightmare. The bad news is: there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’, cookie-cutter method. There are times when users don’t always get your product on the first try.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Have you ever wondered how customer feedback analysis can help you improve your product and reduce churn? A thorough analysis of user feedback ensures customer success in a wide range of ways, from informing the product team what improvements are needed to optimizing marketing campaigns. Onboarding surveys. CSAT surveys.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Product Marketing is a fairly new domain and the role of ‘Product Marketing Manager’ differs greatly from organization to organization. You may want to jump to a relevant section: Who’s a Product Marketing Manager? Product Marketing Manager’s Role and Responsibilities (depending on the company).

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Not just in product reviews, roadmap meetings, or design critiques from product people, but across the company. This is the eighth post in a series exploring our product principles. When anyone new joins Intercom, their onboarding pack contains their first “Intermission”– our name for a problem statement.

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Mixpanel

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This post is written by TWG, a product consultancy specializing in modern application development , data engineering, and product growth. Simply put, data is at the core of good product management. What is a product stack? Knowing those details helps product managers improve the experience for future users.

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Userpilot

APRIL 13, 2022

Click tracking is an essential method for uncovering weak spots in the product UX and the user flow by analyzing how users engage with your UI. Let’s begin our journey and unlock product growth opportunities with click tracking! This can be a broken link, poor onboarding , confusing UX, etc.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. Collect customer data to calculate complex formulas for tracking metrics, monitor customer health scores, and resolve support tickets while continuously trying to improve retention and expansion.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 5, 2024

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Q: How do you hit #1 on Product Hunt? Product Hunt is one of the most effective ways to get early users for a product. One name kept coming up: Leo Bosuener. For many, it proves to be a big waste of time.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

But they don’t answer where the sources of friction are coming from as your users explore your product. Then, when you finally put together your user journey map and want to optimize your touchpoints and eliminate bad experiences, you can face two barriers: The Analytics Black Hole – Can’t see the forest before the trees.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 8, 2017

As a product manager, I think it’s my obligation to bring clarity and precision to discussions… so talking generically about customers or users can be exasperating. Being more specific also gives us an opportunity to connect our teams emotionally to our (ahem) users. We encourage our teams to focus effort where it matters most.

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