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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

Answers

  1. Several core attributes characterize a product-led culture:
    • Customer centricity: Keeping the customer perspective at the forefront to ensure the product solves real user needs and pain points.
    • Data-driven: Leveraging metrics and insights on user behavior to guide decisions rather than assumptions or opinions.
    • Cross-functional collaboration: Tearing down silos to foster tight integration between teams such as product, engineering, and design on shared goals.
    • Continuous innovation: Empowering teams to rapidly experiment, take risks, and implement learnings to constantly improve.
    • Customer engagement: Turning users into product evangelists through community, content, and delivering so much value that the product sells itself.
    • Product excellence: An unrelenting focus on quality, UX, and solving real problems that matter to customers.
  2. As a GPM, I play a key role in working with leadership to craft an inspiring product vision. Specific ways I can help create a compelling vision...