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The Art of Telling Stories
Have you seen the \"Land of Land Rovers\" commercial? Tonight we're going to talk about the art of telling stories, but there's no better way to do that than to show you a great example. I don't kno...
Product Overshoot
Have you ever owned a Swiss Army Knife? Tonight I want to talk about product overshoot. But to do that I have to start with a question: have you ever owned a Swiss Army Knife? If you've ever stepp...
The Art of Lead Generation: What Top Business Owners Do Differently
The art of lead generation I talk to business owners every single day. Sometimes they own product companies. Other times they run agencies. But they fall into two categories. The first want to keep...
Leveraging Multiple Price Points
The challenge with talking about pricing (and especially multiple price points) is that the conversation comes in the middle of a much larger discussion on product design. By the time you've built a new feature and want to know how much more to charge for it (if you're even willing to adjust pricing), we're already...
If I Wanted a New House... (tips for product owners)
Everyone wants more leads and sales, including product owners Today I wanted to share some tips for product owners who are looking for more leads and more sales. That really should be every product owner out there, right? To do that, I want to invite you to step into a metaphor with me for a...
Are You Building a Product for a Non-Existent Customer?
The conversation that was really hard to have The developer walked up to me at a technical conference and wanted to pitch me on their new product idea. If you're building a product, especially in the WordPress space, I'm happy to have this conversation with you. But this conversation got really hard, really fast. The...
What Walt Disney Didn't Do
I want to tell you a quick story for all of you building products out there. As someone who has been building products for more than two decades some lessons need repeating. This is one of them...
What Drives Your Roadmap?
A couple weeks ago I wrote about product roadmap themes. If you haven't read that, I strongly recommend it. I say that because today's post relates to that, and is a general warning to small product teams. It directly applies to the WordPress ecosystem where I spend most of my time, but this warning will...
Some Nonintuitive Lessons That Are Hard To Learn
I spent today in an all-day meeting With some very smart people, we worked on planning for the second half of the year, and did a lot of work to identify themes, areas of effort, strategies for prioritization, and more. And while we met, while we discussed things, it was clear to me that the...
Are Your Product RoadMap Themes Complete?
Whether you create a product roadmap or not is immaterial I know people who plan their products without anything written on paper. I know folks who use SaaS products, and others who use checklists. And these days the folks who do create plans often use roadmap themes instead of specific features to plan their work....
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