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Growth Product Manager's Handbook

By : Eve Chen
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Growth Product Manager's Handbook

By: Eve Chen

Overview of this book

In the dynamic landscape of modern product management, professionals face a myriad of challenges, spanning customer acquisition, monetization, user retention, competition, and technical expertise. To overcome these hurdles, this book crystalizes growth strategies that revolve around harnessing the power of data, experimentation, and user insights to drive growth for a product. This handbook serves as your guide to exploring the essential growth product management models and their applications in various contexts, unveiling their role in enhancing revenue performance and customer retention. Along the way, actionable steps will steer you in implementing these models while helping you better understand your users, experiment with new features and marketing strategies, and measure the impact of your efforts, ultimately guiding you to achieve your customer retention and lifetime customer goals. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained advanced insights into growth product management, models, and growth strategies, and when and how to use them to achieve customer-for-life goals and optimized revenue performance.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1: A User-Centric Management Strategy
5
Part 2: Demonstrating Your Product’s Value
9
Part 3: A Successful Product-Focused Strategy
13
Part 4: Winning the Battle and the War

Key skills and attributes for growth product managers

The multifaceted role of a growth product manager demands a diverse skill set that goes beyond traditional product management competencies. To navigate the complexities of PLG successfully, growth product managers must cultivate a blend of technical acumen, strategic thinking, and interpersonal skills. Let’s examine these skills:

  • Customer-centric mindset: At the core of a growth product manager’s skill set is a deep understanding of customer needs and behaviors. This customer-centric mindset involves empathizing with users, anticipating their requirements, and continuously seeking ways to enhance their experience. By aligning product development with customer expectations, growth product managers contribute to the creation of products that resonate with the target audience.
  • Data-driven decision-making: In the era of PLG, data serves as the North Star guiding strategic decisions. Growth product managers...