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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

Conducting user research and analysis

User research and analysis play a crucial role in the responsibilities of a growth product manager. They provide you with invaluable knowledge about customer behaviors, needs, and preferences. By utilizing various techniques, understanding key success factors, and addressing challenges, growth product managers can unlock a wealth of insights about their users. Furthermore, embracing a continuous improvement mindset ensures that businesses remain informed and stay current with the latest user insights.

To gain a comprehensive understanding of customers, growth product managers employ a diverse range of techniques that capture both qualitative and quantitative insights. These techniques shed light on user motivations, pain points, and preferences, enabling data-driven decision-making. Now, let us explore some commonly utilized techniques:

  • Interviews: By conducting interviews, growth product managers can directly interact with users and...