Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Product (and company) strategy is the backbone that guides product goal-setting and roadmap definition, although it’s sometimes overlooked or confused with having a vision. Without it, product teams become feature teams focused on outputs and not outcomes. Note: This post was written before the Covid19 lockdown.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

Perform market research and define your target audience A successful product strategy is built on a solid foundation of customer understanding. Thus, you must conduct thorough market research to understand who your ideal customer is and what they need. Always prioritize features that directly impact customer satisfaction.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

If you’re wondering what different types of customer feedback are and how to collect them, you’re in the right place! In this article, we look at 13 different ways to collect feedback that product managers can leverage to gain a deep understanding of customer needs and make informed product decisions.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

An effective customer activation funnel can be an extremely powerful way to channel new customers through your product and get them to experience value fast. Activation is one of the most important metrics for product managers and SaaS owners to focus on (and get right). What is customer activation?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 4, 2022

We’ll start by exploring what customer activation is and why it matters, cover the difference between a customer activation strategy and brand activation, set out how to craft a customer activation strategy of your own, and discuss the best tools for the job. Why is customer activation important?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Try Userpilot and Take Your Messaging Strategies to the Next Level Get a Demo 14 Day Trial No Credit Card Required Identify your target audience and their pain points and needs Developing messaging strategies starts with taking some time to understand your audience’s wants, needs , and pain points.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Can a user engagement funnel help you grow a loyal customer base and retain more active customers ? User engagement takes all the best parts of existing funnels and applies relevant modern realities to them for better effect. An engagement funnel is customer-focused. What is user engagement?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

One approach to price setting is to think of pricing along a continuum with self-service pricing at one end of the spectrum (such as applications costing under $50/month, allowing customers to purchase with a credit card) through to enterprise pricing (such as applications costing $50-100,000 a year) at the other end. Gaining new customers.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

TL;DR A product strategy is a high-level outline that shapes the development and management of a product. A well-defined product strategy contains four key elements – the product vision , target customers , goals , and product initiatives.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Storyboards on Unsplash by Slidebean In fact, it’s no different from why we use storyboards in the film industry or product development. Storyboards help Product designers to test multiple versions of products, product flows, and customer journey maps until there’s a final design for all team members. UX Flows?—?write

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

Product idea validation is essential to avoid spending too many resources on a product that fails because nobody needs it. First, you need to clearly define the product goals, the problems it solves, and its alignment with the organization’s business goals. Some questions to answer include: What is the product?

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Sequent Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2024

For product managers, this complexity means adopting a more strategic approach to ensure your product meets customer needs, aligns with organizational goals, and delivers measurable value. Use this data to gain detailed insights into your target segments, emerging trends, and customer feedback.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 14, 2024

At its very core, product-led design is all about creating a seamless customer experience that enables users to unlock value with your product quickly. The idea is that once users truly see your product’s benefits, they naturally want to upgrade to the paid plan. What is product-led design?

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Userpilot

JULY 10, 2024

Create product-led content like blog posts and eBooks to solve customer pain points and increase reach with SEO optimization. Create a referral program with incentives to boost customer acquisition and reward loyal users through word-of-mouth. SMART goal-setting framework.

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ProductPlan

JULY 16, 2021

The art of product leader communication relies on the concept of responsibility without authority. Product managers who follow this concept understand the responsibility to influence others to achieve the organization’s product goals. As product managers, we have the power to task others with responsibilities.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Confirming you have product-market fit before launching your product ensures you have customers who are happy to pay for your product, use it, and share the word about it. It defines how the brand will keep up with changing times to attract new customers and drive customer retention.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

With the AARRR framework, product managers and marketers can develop a deeper understanding of the customer journey. It allows you to track and measure your progress at each stage, from customer acquisition to customer retention, with the help of the right metrics. Join Product Drive. Save your spot today.

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Userpilot

JUNE 3, 2022

Giving users a great first impression is critically important, so defining an effective SaaS onboarding funnel has got to be a priority for any product manager. In this article, we’re going to dig deep into the world of customer onboarding. Start with mapping the customer journey. What is a SaaS onboarding funnel?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

TL;DR Digital adoption : Ensure users extract full value from your product features by measuring active users, feature usage, and product stickiness. Customer onboarding : Enhance the onboarding process using personalized experiences, checklists , and in-app guidance. Tracking product adoption with Userpilot.

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Userpilot

JULY 29, 2024

It involves making your product so valuable to users that it sells itself. This improves the overall customer satisfaction levels and results in shorter sales cycles. Analyze user behavior – Use in-depth product analytics to monitor in-app user behavior , identify patterns, and spot areas of friction.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

What product discovery techniques can product managers use to build products that deliver value for their customers? Product analytics and session recordings enable you to analyze user behavior in the product and find areas where they encounter barriers or unnecessary friction.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2021

Goals Beyond background context, you’ll almost always want to provide clarity on the goals of the feature being built?—?for for the user, for your business, and/or both. A good product goal, like any other, should be specific & well-defined, measurable, achievable/realistic, and timeboxed for success.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In today’s PLG-driven world, SaaS companies must deliver seamless customer experiences to survive and thrive. Customer journey optimization has emerged as a strategic imperative for companies seeking to boost customer satisfaction, retention, and lifetime value. Register here for FREE!

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

An impact map is a visual representation of the connections between the goals you want to achieve, the customers, and solutions. While impact mapping focuses on the interdependencies between the three, a customer journey map is a step-by-step breakdown of the actions your customers need to complete to experience value.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Product marketing sits between product development and the market. Its main goal is to bring the product to the market and ensure it’s well-received by the target customers. Product marketers can help product teams identify the product’s USPs and communicate its value proposition to customers.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

That means picking the right time to upsell (figuring out how to create the opportunity for users to adopt a critical new feature). Advocacy : The ultimate conclusion of any good user adoption strategy is to turn your customers into advocates. You can’t just throw a user adoption strategy together and expect it to work.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Take both positive and negative feedback seriously; they are equally important to building fantastic customer experiences. UX research insights are important to the product design process because they help to: Create a customer-focused product. Find friction points and act on them. What are user insights?

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

User stories make you focus on solving specific user problems rather than the actual features. Use opportunity solutions trees to align the problems you try to solve with product goals. Use data from user interviews, task analyses , and customer feedback to inform what goes into the MVP and future development.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Use user behavior and product usage data to choose your optimization goals. Apart from product goals , ensure that your optimizations also drive business goals. Use user segmentation to choose the right participants for your experiments and in-app messages to reach out to them.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

The six steps towards finding PMF are: Line up your product goals first. Come up with product hypotheses. Prioritise the product hypotheses. Get feedback from at least five customers, but many as possible. Make small bets with minimum viable products (MVP). Steps in figuring out your target customer.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2023

The important metrics you should use to measure the growth of a company are: Customer acquisition cost (CAC) assesses the average cost to acquire new customers and evaluates the efficiency of sales and marketing efforts. Customer lifetime value (CLV) determines the total revenue a customer generates throughout the relationship.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

However, the scoring and weighting are still subject to bias, and the process doesn’t always reflect customer needs. Here are a few important reasons to consider it: Nuanced prioritization – weighting the criteria enables teams to make more nuanced decisions that truly reflect their product goals and organizational cultures.

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Userpilot

MARCH 27, 2023

We start by looking at different kinds of analyses and the metrics to track and then explore some practical ways of using each of them to drive various product goals. We finish with an overview of product analytics tools that your team can benefit from. Segment analysis focuses on common qualities shared by similar users.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

TL;DR A feature prioritization matrix helps product teams decide which features to develop next, focusing on high-impact features and resource optimization. A product prioritization framework helps you maximize customer value and deliver the best ROI by encouraging methodical examination of data before making decisions.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Portfolio product management is a customer outcome approach to product management and product marketing that eliminates silos and competing priorities and fosters collaboration across product teams. In a traditional product management model, everything starts with a product.

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Userpilot

MAY 11, 2024

Are you looking for powerful and effective Heap alternatives to track customer behavior and discover hidden insights in your data? Despite being an excellent product analytics tool with great features, Heap is not infallible. TL;DR Heap is a customer analytics platform for tracking and analyzing customer data and user interactions.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Product vision is the long-term objective for the product and serves as the North Star for the product team. A product vision statement describes the product vision to the internal and external stakeholders and customers. Product vision and company vision overlap in single-product organizations.

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