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API Analytics for Product Managers

By : Deepa Goyal
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API Analytics for Product Managers

By: Deepa Goyal

Overview of this book

APIs are crucial in the modern market as they allow faster innovation. But have you ever considered your APIs as products for revenue generation? API Analytics for Product Managers takes you through the benefits of efficient researching, strategizing, marketing, and continuously measuring the effectiveness of your APIs to help grow both B2B and B2C SaaS companies. Once you've been introduced to the concept of an API as a product, this fast-paced guide will show you how to establish metrics for activation, retention, engagement, and usage of your API products, as well as metrics to measure the reach and effectiveness of documentation—an often-overlooked aspect of development. Of course, it's not all about the product—as any good product manager knows; you need to understand your customers’ needs, expectations, and satisfaction too. Once you've gathered your data, you’ll need to be able to derive actionable insights from it. This is where the book covers the advanced concepts of leading and lagging metrics, removing bias from the metric-setting process, and bringing metrics together to establish long- and short-term goals. By the end of this book, you'll be perfectly placed to apply product management methodologies to the building and scaling of revenue-generating APIs.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
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The API Analytics Cheat Sheet

Framework for storytelling with data

Data by itself doesn’t help you very much. You can gather as much of it as you want, but it won’t bring people together or get them to do anything. Because data has so much to offer, when you look at your data, figure out what it means, and explain what you’ve learned in a way that everyone can understand, you’ve turned it into something very valuable: a story.

Stories are more interesting than facts because they stay with us longer. The same goes for giving information to your team and to the people in charge. Data storytelling can help people act on the things they learn from data. Without good communication, your audience might not notice or remember your insights. Hard and soft skills together help you get the most out of your data.

Telling stories is an important part of a product manager’s job that is often overlooked. If someone asks you, as a product manager, what makes your product different and...