The document summarizes a talk on product management and digital product development. It provides an overview of the speaker Sri Iyer and their experience in mobile and as a product coach. The bulk of the document outlines the speaker's discussion points on topics like understanding customer needs, developing minimum viable products, using agile methodologies, content marketing strategy, and metrics for product success.
8. Who is Sri?
- Wise soul with long history in mobile
- Entrepreneur and ex-CTO
- Design thinker
- Solves problems with realistic budgets
- Product coach at Oxford University’s Said Business
School
- Tech enthusiast and advisor
9. Product Series
By Prim Digital
- Intro to Digital Product Management
- Content Marketing’s role in Product Management
- Design thinking in Product Management
- Selling Digital Products
- Product-a-thon
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12. The customer lives in a different
world now
Customer feedback drives product
adoption or could kill a business
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15. The digital customer is
needy, greedy
But
Somewhat trusting in this
world driven by tech
38. Now let’s build products
So what’s a MVP
A Minimum Viable Product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the
maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort.
54. You are going to solve bigger problems
and will need all the tools
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57. State the problem
Create a convincing MVP
Test your hypothesis
Pick a good CRM
Plan your content strategy (topic clusters, blogs, email marketing etc).
Plan an adwords campaign.
Develop your product with Agile, test, test, optimise and test with users
Establish pricing and delivery
Drive traffic into your funnel (social, online, offline).
Plan a strategy to keep users engaged and to bring disengaged users back.
Keep competitors close. Ignore myths and boilerplate strategies.
My 10 point rule book
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Notas do Editor
The gamebench story and the struggle.. It was really hard in the first 3 years. Our MVP was an app that we first launched in 2014. It was barebones. We knew it solved a hard problem but it was very hard to get our message across with a small budget.
Today - 4 years in - we are still small but already profitable , some of the biggest phone makers use, biggest studios, FB, even Google use this it. If you have one of these Note 8, S9, S10s.. it has GB running in the background
What was the turning point, (besides a product that works?) - Customer loop -
We observed behavior based on the first product we launched in google play
Feeback was limited but we made good assumption and then created an MMP that we show to people not just tell them about
Let people play with it - see what they did - and as they played, we learned
Ask them ‘never works’- you really need to see what they do and where they struggle
get other people to talk about your product. In this case - journalists, reviewers, tech blogger. Got Samsung’s attention
Well - Nothing has fundamentally changed for centuries. We import and export products, knowledge, Tools to do things, software. People shout to sell, there are colorful displays. We negotiate, we sell. In fact, we still have a marketplace (such as Amazon) where all of us can sell whatever we want. What has changed? (customer centricity and their feedback)
Customer is king - why. Feedback matters, they are not really loyal, they are a pain but enterprises have realised that you have a much better chance at succeeding if the customer is happy and engaged. As one-time sale is no good, continuous sales
The list is almost infinte now. Our decisions are almost entirely governed by what others say! You dont even have to know the person. We believe in tech and trust these platform and reviews. In a way tech as made us more trusting - Uber, Airbnb. I would say its good and bad but the bottom line is - we dont mind trusting these reviews as long as the perception is ‘its customer review’
They trust the platform Uber/AirBnB, other reviewers (unknown to them) assuming there are checks and balances in place
Important for startups and young companies
The customer always has a problem. Its hard to really understand what the customer problem is - asking them doesnt give the full picture. You really have to observe them to get an idea of what they ‘do’ not what they want. If you ask the wrong question you get the wrong answer
This is one way. But there might be legal and less creepy ways. Anyone?
You dont realize but you are letting people watch you (albeit not literally) but pretty precisely. This is the way to understand what customer do, what they buy, what they see, what they search etc. clicktale, Hotjar, cookies
Example of when I was at Euromoney, I was the CTO - financial service firm who wanted us to have a table so we he can download with the right columrn, the marketing person was feeding that as a customer requirement and when I questioned the change that would affect all our customers but I was I dont understand customer requirements
Its hard to really understand what the customer problem is - asking them doesnt give the full picture. You really have to observe them to get an idea of what they ‘do’. So you need to turn into a peeping tom
Its hard to really understand what the customer problem is - asking them doesnt give the full picture. You really have to observe them to get an idea of what they ‘do’. So you need to turn into a peeping tom
That brings us to a key question - what will you do as a PM. You need a mini CEO reponsibile for everything that deals with the product
You will work with a busy CEO, who has too much to do. He needs to satisfy the shareholders, the market, customers, other employees
PM role is far more complex that initially envisioned
Get a grasp of the obvious. Let your team know;
Its hard to really understand what the customer problem is - asking them doesnt give the full picture. You really have to observe them to get an idea of what they ‘do’. So you need to turn into a peeping tom
How many of you have startups here? Can you do the same?
What might be the problem statement here
Nice problem statement. The problem was that he didnt understand the social issues, there were tech issues
A company I advice. Key Infuser
What do you think is the problem statement here?
UX has not changed like forever. But they keep improving (or regressing)
Should take <10 secs to get it
Its hard to really understand what the customer problem is - asking them doesnt give the full picture. You really have to observe them to get an idea of what they ‘do’. So you need to turn into a peeping tom
Uber for food idea. Local cook, mums make food for that authentic feel. We had to come up with a MVP that was really simple and easy to implement without investing in an expensive platform. So what did we do?
The gamebench story and the struggle.. It was really hard in the first 3 years. Our MVP was an app that we first launched in 2014. It was barebones. We knew it solved a hard problem but it was very hard to get our message across with a small budget.
Today - 4 years in - we are still small but already profitable , some of the biggest phone makers use, biggest studios, FB, even Google use this it. If you have one of these Note 8, S9, S10s.. it has GB running in the background
What was the turning point, (besides a product that works?) - Customer loop -
We observed behavior based on the first product we launched in google play
Feeback was limited but we made good assumption and then created an MMP that we show to people not just tell them about
Let people play with it - see what they did - and as they played, we learned
Ask them ‘never works’- you really need to see what they do and where they struggle
get other people to talk about your product. In this case - journalists, reviewers, tech blogger. Got Samsung’s attention
MVP is something really simple to test out your hypothesis
Its hard to really understand what the customer problem is - asking them doesnt give the full picture. You really have to observe them to get an idea of what they ‘do’. So you need to turn into a peeping tom
My framework that I use with students. 2 things you cant lose focus on
The customer problem (how deep will you go to solve all problems)
That a business exists mainly to generate revenue (how long will you wait to start generating revenue)
One such tool in development is Agile. Not going into much detail but
Whats good and bad about this? The value of content over fluffly product marketing
Gamebench proved with hard evidence that his was BS. Intel has now pulled out of mobile. No amount of marketing dollars can save Intel
The gamebench story and the struggle.. It was really hard in the first 3 years. Our MVP was an app that we first launched in 2014. It was barebones. We knew it solved a hard problem but it was very hard to get our message across with a small budget.
Today - 4 years in - we are still small but already profitable , some of the biggest phone makers use, biggest studios, FB, even Google use this it. If you have one of these Note 8, S9, S10s.. it has GB running in the background
What was the turning point, (besides a product that works?) - Customer loop -
We observed behavior based on the first product we launched in google play
Feeback was limited but we made good assumption and then created an MMP that we show to people not just tell them about
Let people play with it - see what they did - and as they played, we learned
Ask them ‘never works’- you really need to see what they do and where they struggle
get other people to talk about your product. In this case - journalists, reviewers, tech blogger. Got Samsung’s attention
Brand marketing but make an emotional connection to let people know you care about your customers. Any story tellers in the room?
Dont sell until you have to. Because the deeper they are down that engagement funnel
The more likely they will pay
Less sales effort
And they will repeat
Keep on top what your clients engage with and measure that in CRM by persona/company. Listen to them, talk to them, engage - create a community feel and then upgrade them to better products. Selling more will never be a concern after this
Its hard to really understand what the customer problem is - asking them doesnt give the full picture. You really have to observe them to get an idea of what they ‘do’. So you need to turn into a peeping tom
Its hard to really understand what the customer problem is - asking them doesnt give the full picture. You really have to observe them to get an idea of what they ‘do’. So you need to turn into a peeping tom
Use common sense to solve problem as you are the customer too