The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Guest Post by: Vivek Karna (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, John Masterson]. Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. Introduction.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste : development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t drive sales or customer satisfaction or business improvement.  Yet I think serious product discovery and end user validation may be stuck in this cultural/conceptual gap.  Product

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

What is user analytics, and how can it help you drive product growth ? This allows you to see what different segments of your customers are doing in your product and why they behave that way. With smart strategies and the right user analytics tools, you can leverage user analytics to improve SaaS metrics and unlock growth.

Analytic Tools 89

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Userpilot

MAY 3, 2021

But LTV is often a poorly understood metric, especially if you come from a more traditional business environment: one more concerned with acquisition than retention. To improve LTV, make use of secondary onboarding, a help center, qualitative microsurveys and helpful content. What is LTV – Lifetime Value? Who should measure LTV?

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Gainsight

MARCH 9, 2022

In the world of Customer Success, metrics often tell the story. Whether it’s Lifetime Value (LTV), customer acquisition cost (CAC), or the champion of them all, net revenue retention (NRR), companies rely on metrics to tell them how effectively they are serving their customers, and by extension, how well their businesses are doing.

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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. Let’s unpack. What’s In a Name?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

Winning new business is critical for any savvy product manager: a new client onboarding checklist template can help you systemize your path to a successful customer onboarding process. Used correctly, this sort of customer onboarding checklist can become an invaluable tool for any product manager.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Product requirements are there to help the team understand what you want to build. Whether you write them in detailed documents or share them briefly and verbally with the team, it’s easy to go directly to the bottom line and give clear instructions. For the team to be successful, they always need to see the bigger picture.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 5, 2018

Our chat covers how gaming principles influenced her growth experiments, her team’s most successful retention tactics, and much more. I didn’t have to touch product, it didn’t require any money, and I really felt like there was a cool story to tell. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the interview.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 22, 2024

According to Userpilot’s SaaS Product Success Metrics Benchmark report , Fintech and Insurance companies had the second-lowest activation and adoption rates of all industries. This is because the client onboarding process in financial services faces unique challenges. What are they? Let’s get started.

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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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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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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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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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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2022

‘Feature factory’ is not exactly a positive term, especially if you’re aspiring to be a product-led SaaS product management team. This article explores what the ‘feature factory’ mindset is and what the signs you might be working in such a company are. What is a feature factory?

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

What metrics you should track? TL;DR User engagement is a measure of how active your users are inside the product and how good the product is at keeping them interested. The latter is only limited to user behavior within the product. User engagement focuses on how users interact with the product.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 27, 2022

Are you looking to reduce product churn for your SaaS business? If speaking realistically, product churn is inevitable for SaaS companies but decreasing churn by just 5% can cause your profit to rise as much as 25-125%. So let’s see how you, as a product manager, can reduce product churn and drive growth in your company.

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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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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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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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Userpilot

OCTOBER 18, 2021

To answer this question (and take action), you basically need three things: Metrics – so you know how fast is your SaaS growing and what do you need to do to improve the growth rate. You can measure growth by using various metrics like pirate metrics. Dave McClure’s Pirate Metrics. Pirate Metrics consist of: Acquisition.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. How did you get yourself into that position? After I had left, we started to see that we had product-market fit.

User Testing 174

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In this blog post, we’re going to break down the pros and cons of using UserGuiding as an onboarding and engagement tool for SaaS and give you the best alternatives that may fit your specific needs and use cases. UserGuiding is a no-code tool for user onboarding. Userguiding features. User onboarding. Feature adoption.

Analytic Tools 81

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Sanj started working at Salesforce back in 2005, when the company had around 1,000 employees and a few hundred million in revenue, and he was a part of its growth for 14 years, holding several leadership positions in multiple markets in EMEA. Since leaving college, I knew I wanted to work in technology, in a sales or go-to-market position.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

As a product team grows from one or two individual contributors to a larger, more diverse team, it takes some work to ensure everyone is set up for success. Different personalities, styles, and expectations can create inconsistent experiences for others when dealing with the product team. Empowered and autonomous.

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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

JULY 27, 2023

In this article, we’ve outlined the major roles that move the needle in terms of product growth alongside their KPIs and current salary ranges. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what.

Research Software 89

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Do you know that customer touchpoints can exponentially influence product growth ? It may be reading articles on your blog, engaging with ads, leaving reviews, contacting the support team, and so on. Group customer touchpoints by using the Pirate metrics framework. Userpilot – for monitoring what users do in the product.

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Userpilot

JULY 14, 2021

Because we’re just a different kind of onboarding tool! ?????. So we’ve classified the different alternative onboarding tools by a) user persona b) JTBD (Job-To-Be-Done – in other words, what you want to use the tool for). It’s also more difficult to use for user onboarding, doesn't offer checklists or resource center.

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Userpilot

JUNE 30, 2022

Do you plan to design your product strategy around some examples of success metrics? As your strategies and objectives change, so should your success metrics. You can use different metrics to measure different aspects of your business, such as marketing, customer success, and product management. Let’s dive deep!

Onboarding KPIs 82

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Does it have anything to do with the Minimum Viable Product? Why would you care about MVE as a product manager ? Minimum Viable Experience (MVE) describes how your users must feel when they interact with your product to stay with the company and keep using the product. Developing one is not possible without the other.

Customer Experience 92

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Developing a sales strategy is one of the core activities every business will have to undertake. When done correctly, your sales strategy will help your sales team execute with focus – SMB or enterprise, inbound or outbound, hunting or farming. 8 steps to develop a winning sales strategy. Define your ideal customer profile.

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Userpilot

MARCH 25, 2024

Various factors could cause customer churn, including bad product-customer fit , poor user onboarding experience , poor customer service , and weak customer relationships. Some effective strategies for reducing customer churn include: Personalize the onboarding for new customers to shorten the time to value.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

For instance, “how do we think this change to the onboarding workflow will shift user behavior?” Increasing, though, companies are building statistical or AI/Machine Learning features directly into their products. Piping in real users’ voices and challenges motivates the whole team. We versus They.

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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.

Analytic Tools 125

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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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