5 Things all IT Managers Should do to get Stakeholder Buy-In
Implementing a successful enterprise architecture (EA) transformation requires stakeholder buy-in. Hearing that may make you frustrated and worried about the... Read →
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What Your Executives Want to See When You’re Presenting Your Roadmap
As a product manager who now sits on the other side of the table as an executive, I’ve had lots... Read →
The Biggest Problem with Customer Delight Expectations
Making a sale deserves celebration, but ringing that bell is only the start of the customer journey. Now it’s time... Read →
Category: Marketing
The SaaS Marketing Metrics that Matter to Product Managers
Product managers and marketers share many of the same goals. But if marketing isn’t your thing, you might not know… Read →
How Lazy Marketing Leaves Your Product Vulnerable
Amidst the laundry list of existing threats to your business, lazy marketing rarely comes to mind as a top concern…. Read →
5 Product Marketing Lessons I Learned at INBOUND 2018
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending HubSpot’s INBOUND conference in Boston. The conference marked my first trip to… Read →
Why a Product Manager Needs to Be a Great Storyteller
When he walked into venture capitalists’ offices to secure funding for his idea to make WiFi-connected doorbells and security cameras… Read →
How to Craft a Great Customer Survey
“Please complete the following 20-minute customer survey.” If you saw that subject line in your email inbox, would you feel… Read →
A Little Reminder About Your User Personas
For this post, we’d like to offer you a friendly product management reminder, because we all need these types of… Read →
Atlassian Summit 2017: 8 Event Takeaways for Product Managers
This week, more than 3,500 attendees from 50 different countries arrived in San Jose, California for the 2017 Atlassian Summit…. Read →
How to Build an Amazing Relationship Between Product Management and Marketing
Why is there so often conflict, friction, and even an outright adversarial relationship between a company’s product management and marketing… Read →
Why Most Marketing Plan Examples Won’t Work for Your Organization
Marketing plan examples are all over the web. You can easily find more samples and templates than you could ever… Read →
Customer Delight is Not a Nice-to-Have on Your Roadmap — it’s a Must-Have
You’ve probably had the experience of attending or leading strategy meetings early in your product’s journey where the team was… Read →
B2B vs. B2C Product Management: Are They Really So Different?
If you had to choose only one, how would you describe the primary persona for the Amazon Fire Kids Edition… Read →
How Journey Maps Can Help Product Managers Build Better Products
In this post, I’d like to walk you through some of the ways journey maps can add invaluable new insights… Read →
How Product Managers Can Write More Compelling Value Propositions
As a product manager, crafting a compelling value proposition will be one of the most important steps in developing your… Read →
Product Marketing Manager vs. Product Manager: Where Do You Draw the Line?
One of the difficulties of careers in product management and product marketing is that most people — sometimes even these… Read →
User Persona vs. Buyer Persona: Are Your Users Also Buying Your Product?
Who are your product’s target customers? At first glance, this question might be easy to answer. As a seasoned product… Read →
How Using Intercom at ProductPlan Makes us Better Product Managers
Think about one of your customers… let’s call him Tom. Do you know, for certain, the last time Tom used… Read →
3 Reasons Product Managers Should Care About Content Marketing
Be a hero, follow the money, and market yourself. Got it? Really? On top of everything I am responsible for… Read →
Three Example Marketing Roadmaps
How many times have you sat in a marketing meeting, listened as the discussion jumped randomly from topic to topic,… Read →