Product Ideation and Customer Development

Discovering the right product is a vital part of a product development process. To do that effectively best product teams use a Product Discovery process. It answers the question of what product to build. Done right it helps you build products customers would love.

Main takeaways: - Thinking big: expand your ideas and understand today and dream up tomorrow. This will take your company/product into the future - Start small: it's time to go into validation stage, organize your ideas into a roadmap that starts small and builds more value over time -Failing fast: learn from your failures and do it fast (if you never failed, you probably did not aim high enough)

The document discusses testing minimum viable products (MVPs) for startups. It begins by providing examples of products that failed despite large investments and outlines common reasons for failure. It then defines the context of a startup as experimentation to validate business models through frequent customer feedback. The document describes the three stages of a startup and emphasizes that learning is progress. It advocates for building an MVP, which is the fastest way to test business hypotheses with minimum effort. The rest of the document provides examples of how to test MVPs to validate problems, solutions, and product-market fit with low-cost experiments like landing pages, surveys, prototypes, and pre-orders.

A talk I gave at Google on Strategy and Product Discovery We discussed: Discovering Features and Products (Product Strategy) Discovering Products and Product Lines (Product Line / Company Strategy) Marty Cagan: Using High Fidelity Prototypes for Product Discovery

Building a Sales and Marketing machine for a B2B software company involves many functions working together. This slide deck explores the process of funnel design that is highly buyer centric. It looks at the Buyer journey, and how to successfully construct a buying process that they buyer will enjoy going through, which is very different from the typical sale process that is designed from the vendors standpoint, and fails because the buyer is not motivated to go through the steps.

Day 2 exercises from Digital Retailer Association for product development. Product line, product mix, product line depth, product mix depth, and more exercises are included, along with product line grid, new product development canvas, etc. This information will help you develop your product line from scratch or from an existing product base

What is organic SEO? And how does organic SEO work? Organic SEO (search engine optimization) is the phrase used to describe processes to obtain a natural placement on organic search engine results pages (SERPs).

The customer journey map documents the various stages a customer goes through when engaging with a company from awareness to advocacy. It outlines the key stages as awareness, consideration, decision, delivery & use, and advocacy. At each stage it describes the customer activities, goals, and touchpoints. The business goals are to increase awareness, website visitors, conversion rate, and deliver orders to ultimately have customers advocate for the business.

This document outlines 10 steps to achieving product/market fit according to Ash Maurya: 1. Validate your problem and solution by building an MVP and getting early customer feedback. 2. Formulate an implementation strategy and focus on early adopters to define your business model. 3. Continuously measure key metrics like acquisition, activation, retention, revenue and referrals through a feedback loop with customers. 4. Identify your engine of growth whether it's paid, sticky, or viral and ignore other metrics to focus on scaling one thing at a time. The process focuses on learning through experiments rather than long-term planning.

In this presentation we’ll walk through the steps needed for researching keywords and analyzing which phrases will work best for your website or blog.

It all starts with a product roadmap! Your roadmap should tell the story of how you’re going to get to your ultimate vision. Getting priority, alignment, and balancing short term product iterations with long term strategic disruption is all part of the fun. Hudson talked about the road mapping process, how you can balance short term and long term product/business goals, and how various initiatives on a road map get prioritized.

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The document provides information on digital marketing strategies and metrics. It includes sections on key digital marketing statistics, elements of digital marketing, channels like email marketing, PPC, SEO, display advertising and social media marketing. For each channel, it outlines relevant statistics, strategies, sample budgets and dashboards to track performance.

Business plans take too long to write, are seldom updated, and almost never read by others but documenting your hypotheses is key. Lean Canvas solves this problem using a 1-page business model that takes under 20 minutes to create, will be read by more people, and lets you focus on building your business - faster.

This document summarizes a workshop on product teardowns between Patreon and Asana's product managers. It discusses why companies do product teardowns and provides a teardown example comparing the food delivery apps Caviar and UberEATS, analyzing their different value propositions and interfaces. Attendees were led through exercises exploring how Caviar could address issues like UberEATS beating them on signup friction and stealing low-end consumers. The workshop aimed to help product managers learn from analyzing competitors.

Over the past ten years, software gurus have been preaching the notion that you need to find product/market fit. Balfour presents an extremely cogent argument that because of the speed of technology now, this advice is no longer valid. In reality, you need to find market, product, channel, model fit (in that order). Balfour lays out his argument in this presentation at Price Intelligently's SaaSFest 2016 by cataloging his experience over his career and view of the market.

PPC or Pay Per Click advertising is the Key to Amazon (on platform visibility) and success. Key things covered in this presentation. -Power PPC strategies to drive sales. -Understanding Keywords and the role they play with PPC. -How to use PPC to get your advertising to show almost anywhere! -How to budget, tune and manage your campaigns. -How to spend less and achieve more. -We will offer you real products, real campaigns, real results and the differing strategies to employ depending upon the type of product you sell -Broad Match, Phrase Match, Exact Match demystified, bid+ explained, competing keywords, competing products, click fraud and more tabled and dealt with.

The document discusses how KISSinsights used customer development to validate their original hypothesis that product managers struggle with doing fast, effective, and frequent customer research. They conducted phone interviews, user tests, and an MVP website to learn that people are not doing customer research, want private feedback and targeting, and it requires developer involvement and is a constant pain. Based on what they learned, KISSinsights built a freemium on-site customer feedback tool that is easy to install and provides private feedback and understandable reporting.

The document discusses how startups should focus on creating useful content from the beginning, rather than just thinking of content as a secondary "marketing" activity. It provides examples of startups that failed and succeeded at content marketing. Successful startups like Dollar Shave Club, WePay, and BufferApp focused on producing popular, shareable content that drove search traffic and links to their sites. The document outlines steps startups can take to create valuable content, such as focusing on their audience, researching competitors, prioritizing content topics, and using interns to produce difficult content.

These slides were used for a webinar about driving growth by improving the conversion performance of your website. The slides focus on identifying why someone visits your website and uncovering the key issues that prevent conversions. The webinar was presented by Qualaroo CEO Sean Ellis and UserTesting CEO Darrell Benatar about

This document provides 10 secrets for quickly validating a product idea with real customers before building it out fully. The secrets include: 1) Writing down the product concept and assumptions; 2) Deciding to test assumptions like a scientist; 3) Finding people with the problem; 4) Starting validation with your own network; 5) Interviewing people and asking open-ended questions; 6) Finding the value proposition; 7) Recognizing that liking an idea differs from buying; 8) Challenging customers politely; 9) Having fun validating before fully building the product. The overall message is that validation is easier than full product development.