Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 25, 2019

Learn how to cut through the noise and make human connections presenting new products. She is Amy McWhirter, corporate event host, emcee, and trade show presenter. I am a professional trade show presenter. I presented at auto shows and other B2C events and discovered that there was a whole B2B trade show world.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 18, 2021

Good product discovery includes the customer throughout the decision-making process. Good product discovery includes the customer throughout the decision-making process. Good product discovery includes the customer throughout that process. If we are lucky, we might do some customer research at the beginning of the project.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Simplify security • Paragon —Ship every SaaS integration your customers want — Jen Abel is the co-founder of JJELLYFISH, where she and her team have worked with over 300 early-stage founders to learn how to sell, do early customer discovery, and set up a repeatable sales motion on the way to their first $1M ARR.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 18, 2021

In previous episodes, we’ve talked about how customer feedback and cross-team collaboration play a crucial role in the features and updates we build here at Intercom. Or rather, two – conversation topics and custom reports. I mentioned at the start our company values: obsessesing over our customer success. Thomas: Awesome.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 7, 2019

If getting started with your product requires new users to install software, invite colleagues or message customers, then the path to value may not seem as short or straightforward. In cases like these, the user onboarding flow from signup to realizing value can be long and arduous and can cause your onboarding funnel to leak users.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

An interactive demo is a self-guided walkthrough that uses tooltips, modals, hotspots, and other interactive elements to help users quickly explore your SaaS product. This both shortens the sales process and enhances the customer experience. Look for patterns in customer behavior, common questions, and recurring challenges.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 14, 2019

These days, progressive, modern marketers like you and me are always hearing about customer centric marketing. We know that it’s customers, not brands, who hold the power. Leela knows that slapping “customer centric” in your mission statement is rarely enough. 6 ways to create a customer-centric culture.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 10, 2022

User friction is anything that prevents users from getting things done and accomplishing their goals. Too much friction kills your relationships with customers and eventually results in churn. In this article, we’ll cover: What is user friction and how it can kill your relationship with customers?

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 25, 2022

Ask the right questions to uncover your customers’ problems. He has a long history in technology products that includes Texas instruments, Logitech, AMD (where his customer was Apple), and many others. Second, understand what outcome the customer is trying to achieve. It is also seen in great friends. What is that skill?

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UX Planet

MARCH 6, 2025

When presenting your design, instead of showing pure UI design, its better to wrap it in the format of astory. Here is a format of a story that I suggest touse: The problem Clearly articulate the pain points or challenges that usersface. So its better to say, reduces customer drop-off by15%. Good stories sell.

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Product Talk

APRIL 8, 2020

For this post, we spoke with a product team from Simply Business about some of the major lessons they’ve learned since adopting continuous discovery habits like interviewing their customers, questioning their assumptions , and using the opportunity solution tree to guide their work. How do we know when a pain point is worth pursuing?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 20, 2021

The challenges facing customer support leaders are more complex than ever. They need to be able to balance efficiency with a great customer experience , meet rising customer expectations , and keep team morale high , all while ensuring that they don’t blow through their budget or burn out their team. The results?

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Second is setting up the right funnels for access to users. I strongly believe that as a PdM, the biggest value you bring on your team is speaking to users and having a pulse of what your customers need. First, we go out and talk to customers. 15:34] How have you gotten product managers to spend time with customers?

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

And while opportunity solution trees have become increasingly common among product teams, there’s still plenty of room for customization, both in the way you set up your trees and the tools you use to build them. It felt like 10+ years of experience, from customer development to Jobs Theory all in one actionable package.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The feelings customers take away from an experience with your company are far more important than any “response time” metric. This applies not only to conversations a customer may have with your sales or support teams, but even when they’re not talking to you at all – such as when they’re on your help center , searching for answers.

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Product Talk

APRIL 3, 2024

Customer interviews are one of the most impactful activities a product team can do. Customer interviews are one of the most impactful activities a product team can do. Tweet This An early customer interviewing mistake is to spend your interview time exploring your solution ideas. . But only if we use the right methods.

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The Product Guy

MAY 3, 2018

Moving from product concepts to execution requires the steady guidance of a product manager to listen and understand the needs and wants of the organization, the teams involved, and the users for whom the product is being built. Communication starts with listening. The cycle of creating a great product begins with listening.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This approach focuses on understanding customer needs, generating quality ideas, and turning those ideas into real value. It’s what helps create products that customers love and keeps companies successful in the long run. Staying Close to Customers A big part of successful innovation is keeping a close connection with customers.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 4, 2019

By only presenting the final answers we ask stakeholders to give their opinions about our answers, and not about our work, so it shouldn’t be surprising if they don’t agree with us. Opportunities – It is a customer need, pain point, desire or the opportunity to intervene with your customer in a positive way.

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Userpilot

MAY 26, 2024

A Customer Effort Score (CES) survey is a powerful tool for assessing how easy it is for customers to interact with your product. It helps you identify areas for improvement and enhance the user experience. Customer effort score calculation. CES surveys might not be enough to collect 360-degree customer feedback.

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Product Management Unpacked

MAY 19, 2021

Give me an all-in-one solution to compose and communicate, and I’ll be your first customer! Many products simply don’t cater to their users’ needs. Maybe the Product Manager is technically strong but doesn’t understand customers’ context. Learn these skills and create fervent customers. How can this be? After all, as W.

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Userpilot

MARCH 17, 2023

Your product needs to serve your customers, and a customer needs and wants analysis helps to ensure you are addressing all customer pain points. These insights can inform your product development and keep a pulse on any changes in your customer’s needs and wants. What are customer needs and wants?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 26, 2022

C ustomer experience (CX), or consumer experience, is the result of every interaction or touchpoint a customer has with your brand – both with your people and your products. . Think of CX as each moment of engagement along the customer journey. What is a customer service experience?

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The key isnt just understanding users but unlocking insights that lead to solutions they cant live without. Product discovery is critical in identifying workflows, pain points, and user goals that shape successful products. Common Pitfalls Rushing into solutions without exploring user needs derails discovery.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The Solutions Value Chain is a framework that helps you uncover real, strategic value for your customers—from the top of their organization all the way down to the people in the trenches doing the day-to-day work. Of course, every product company wants users to love their products—no surprise there. What is The Solutions Value Chain?

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Take action quickly when issues arise: Use session replays to automatically route high-friction sessions to product teams for rapid investigation and resolution. This reduces support costs, improves customer satisfaction, and accelerates the iteration cycle.

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Mind the Product

MAY 16, 2019

Product people usually spend a substantial period of time in a problem-solution space, learning about customers, about their pain points, and seeking opportunities to add value. However, I want to present a different perspective, Testimonial Driven Development (TDD). Sounds confusing? Where do we start?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Looking for real-life customer-led marketing examples that worked to get inspiration for your own campaigns? TL;DR Customer-led marketing is a strategy that puts the customer at the center of all marketing efforts, making their pain points , behaviors, and feedback the driving force behind decisions.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 16, 2020

I pitched the idea by building a fully functional, iOS prototype, rather than via a PowerPoint presentation. We then identified and quantified the pain points around this core job to get our first cut and roadmap (see the process I’ve since developed here ). to get what is actually a very simple product to the customer.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

It guides product managers through the complex landscape of what customers need, want, and how they behave. It’s important because it helps uncover what customers need and want, even if they don’t know it themselves. These sessions could reveal unexpected pain points in current tools and spark ideas for innovative features.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

These are our improv techniques for conducting user interviews, consolidating user pain points to create solutions, humanizing your customers, and working with your team to bring it all home. And if we’re getting into the product world, don’t steamroll your customer!

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products. A CRM for Product.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

By bringing your choices back to the original problem statement, and keeping the users’ pain points at the forefront of your decision making, you can be more certain you are making the right choices for your product User Personas ?—?ensuring You will likely outline the current user journey and the future state (a.k.a.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 23, 2023

Without good customer experience design, you may as well give up before you even start. No customer wants to experience a clumpy product or service that feels like it’s being held together with chewing gum. CX design focuses on all interactions on the whole customer journey. What is customer experience design?

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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. For instance, when presenting a roadmap update, include not only the “what” but also the “why.”

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2021

There’s a good reason that the seemingly simple Net Promoter Score (NPS) has become a ubiquitous, revered statistic in modern business – this single number is viewed as a measure of customer loyalty, a way to benchmark competitive performance, and has been proven to correlate with revenue growth (hence the popularity).

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Presenting or rejecting a well-researched product or design change to the HiPPO is a common pain point for product managers. A HiPPO situation is when you present your idea to executives or a board member and they shoot down your idea based on their gut. Reddit thread: What is the HiPPO effect? But there’s more to it.

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