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Aligning Product Managers and Product Marketing Managers for Success – Interview With Aatir Abdul Rauf

User Pilot

Here are the main takeaways: Product managers focus on building the right product, while product marketing managers focus on getting the product into the right hands. PMs prioritize product development and functionality, while PMMs focus on market adoption and product desirability. Some common sources of friction are: 1.

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How to Create a Jobs-to-be-Done Survey: Template & Questions

User Pilot

The jobs-to-be-done (JTBD) framework is a customer-centric tool for product development and innovation, focusing on understanding the specific tasks or “jobs” customers hire products to do, providing insights into customer motivations, guiding innovation, aligning product features with real needs, and aiding in market segmentation.

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How to do Market Research: a Step-by-Step Guide

User Pilot

Effective market research requires clear and measurable objectives, guiding decision-making and ensuring relevance to the project’s needs, and should be accompanied by appropriate methods , including both primary and secondary research. This allows businesses to tailor their offerings and engage more effectively with their target market.

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How to Conduct An Effective Customer Analysis in 8 Steps

User Pilot

Gather insights about your customers from internal teams. This will help determine which market segments to prioritize and how much effort to put into each one. You can invite your users to an interview using different in-app messages, such as slideouts. Then, collect direct customer feedback with in-app surveys.

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Customer Centricity—The Secret to a More Strategic Product Roadmap

OpenView Labs

In a conversation on The BUILD Podcast with Blake Bartlett , Hubert talked about how it’s bad for business to create a situation in which only the founder is allowed to be brilliant. Rather than creating a bottleneck, it’s much smarter to inspire each member of a team to find their own brilliance. Five or six UX interviews won’t do it.

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4 Steps to Create a Buyer Persona Sales Reps Will Use (Template Included)

Sales Hacker

I’ve seen it time and time again… A company’s marketing team dedicates their already stretched resources to develop strong, accurate buyer personas — but no one actually uses it. Let alone the sales team, where it would do the most good. Buyer Personas: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. The last part is key.

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How Dopple Is Defining an Emerging Market

FastSpring

When Justin and his initial team started looking for a way to capitalize on VR/AR technology, they focused their attention on the “made-to-order” industrial market. But they quickly realized the market was too small and that there was a bigger opportunity elsewhere — in wider B2B and B2C commerce.