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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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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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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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

MAY 23, 2022

How do you track SaaS funnel metrics in each stage and improve them? Developing and optimizing sales funnels is a key part of SaaS product growth. There are a variety of metrics you can use to optimize your sales funnel, but today we’ll be focusing on what matters most. What are funnel metrics?

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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.

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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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

Is your B2B product easy to sell and easy to renew? I realize not every product person has to navigate sales stakeholders. But if you’re working on a B2B product with a sales force, odds are you know what I mean. But if you’re working on a B2B product with a sales force, odds are you know what I mean.

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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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The Product Guy

JULY 17, 2017

Guest Post by: Prakhar Agarwal (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Sara Varki]. Be it documents, photos, marketing, sales, or product, it’s all moving away from installing software on an operating system to just creating an account for a web-based service. Why User Onboarding. Introduction.

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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

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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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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Userpilot

AUGUST 15, 2021

A key reason why customer engagement metrics are important to successful SaaS businesses. In this article, we will walk you through ten important user engagement metrics to measure. Measure engagement by feature usage to understand what brings the most value. What are customer engagement metrics? Let's get started!

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2022

UX KPIs, or user experience key performance indicators, are essential numerical data points that are used to track, measure, and compare the experience users have with your SaaS product. So, if you’re a product manager looking to significantly improve your UX efforts and provide actionable insights to your UX team, read on!

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

After our team at UX Studio started using product management tools, the time spent on communication surprisingly decreased. As a product manager, you know the drill. Coordinating designer and developer teams simultaneously while reporting to the boss via email becomes a drag. Cons: Few features.

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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. I stumbled upon Eric Ries and Steve Blank, the concept of customer development – it was a revelation. We got sales leads.

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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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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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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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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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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Since 2010, he’s helped the company grow to more than 40,000 customers and helped scale the support team to more than 500 employees to assist those users.

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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

MARCH 15, 2022

Is your SaaS business trying to leverage product growth to achieve success? In the SaaS world, product growth (or product-led growth) has become a popular way to drive growth as it allows users to experience the value of your product before they even subscribe to a plan. What is product growth in SaaS?

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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.

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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.

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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

AUGUST 17, 2024

TL;DR Challenge : Zoezi struggled with a lack of insight into customer usage of their product , relying solely on feedback from a few major customers, which wasn't representative of the broader user base. They use Userpilot to monitor product usage, design onboarding flows, deliver release notes , and provide in-app support.

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Userpilot

MARCH 22, 2021

The world of software is crowded with a variety of product marketing tools that are ‘supposed’ to transform your workflow. Product Marketing tools that can add real value to your business do exist, but finding the right software in such a noisy environment can be challenging. Product Marketing Tools Overview. Ready to dive in?

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