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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

Who this book is for?

This book is intended for traditional product managers, product marketing managers, product leaders, and start-up founders of product-led organizations. To fully benefit from this playbook, a basic understanding of core product management principles across the product development life cycle is necessary. This includes processes such as ideation, roadmap planning, requirements analysis, and go-to-market. Professionals in product roles focused on execution, rather than strategic leadership, will also derive immense value from the frameworks outlined to evolve into growth drivers.

Additionally, some knowledge of marketing strategies related to positioning, messaging, and campaigns is helpful to contextualize the growth tactics discussed in the book. A data-driven mindset and analytical approach will further allow you to comprehend and apply the data-centric methods for customer understanding and product optimization. Whether leading full-cycle development or specialized aspects such as customer research or life cycle engagement, this guide will equip those with foundational PM experience to transition into the emerging domain of product-led growth.