Becoming a Triple Threat Product Leader
Recently, I was in a conversation with an executive of a technology company. When I described my background, experience and capabilities in product management, he responded, “You’re a triple threat.”...
View ArticleGuest Post: If Product Marketing is so Strategic, why do I always get stuck...
NOTE: The following is a guest post by Jennifer Doctor. If you want to submit your own guest post, click here for more information. As product marketing professionals, we are tasked by senior...
View ArticleGuest Post – Remember, Product Marketing Comes First
NOTE: The following is a guest post by Jennifer Doctor. If you want to submit your own guest post, click here for more information. Aren’t the marketing automation tools great? They help you develop...
View ArticleProduct Camps: Where Do We Go From Here?
After posting Are Product Camps Missing the Mark, I received a large number of comments, ideas, suggestions and thoughts that appeared on Twitter, LinkedIn, this blog and even an email. When you raise...
View ArticleGood Bye “Product Owner”, Hello “Backlog Manager”
by Saeed Khan A few weeks back, I wrote a pair of posts about the title/role of Product Owner in Agile development environments: The Scrum title “Product Owner” must die! A new (and better) definition...
View ArticleYou Need Direction – Try a Product Marketing Roadmap
The couple is planning their vacation, and decided to take a car on this trip. They were looking forward to the adventures they could encounter along the way and the side diversions that would present...
View ArticleChange Your Words
Try this exercise. Go to your marketing collateral closet and pull a sales packet of information out. These are the same data/sell sheets, white papers and pretty pictures that you would pull if you...
View ArticleWorth Repeating: 8 Lessons we can learn from Infomercials
I posted this originally back in 2009. I used to watch the show Pitchmen on television. Unfortunately one of the two main characters — infomercial star extraordinaire Billy Mays — passed away suddenly...
View ArticleHow well can you really understand your buyers?
By Saeed Khan I had the pleasure of meeting with a number of international region sales managers recently. They covered geographic regions including Western Europe, the Nordic countries, Eastern...
View ArticleDefining Millennial-Friendly Products
By Rivi Aspler I’ll admit that for the past few years, I disregarded trends such as the social enterprise, consumerism or gamification. The ‘Big-Data’ notion was the only trend that I had considered as...
View ArticleProvisional Personas: The Black Sheep of the Persona Family
by Heather Searl In the last few years, it seems that personas have gotten a bad rap. And in some UX circles, mentioning a provisional persona might get bring you some serious grief. Provisional...
View ArticleHe Said, She Said: Part 2 – How can PM and UX work together
By Saeed Khan and Heather Searl In the first part of this discussion, Heather and Saeed covered a number of topics related to both Product Management and User Experience, including working across...
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