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Product and Portfolio Management Tips from the Mattress Industry
From an old article via Shane Parrish. The secret to mattress shopping is that the product is basically a commodity. The mattress biz is 99-percent marketing. So just buy the cheapest thing you can...
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Product Feedback tips from Intercom When you survey all your users together you ignore the specifics. You mix up yesterday’s sign-ups with life long customers. Those who used your product every day...
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Chip POS Educational Material
Gap/Old Navy Point of Sale Educational Material about EMV Chip Cards. NFC was disabled and the sticker had a pretty slick foil over the actual chip.
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Google Prepaid Done
Google Wallet is shutting down its prepaid card program on June 30th.
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AmEx Serve Disabled International ATM
Effective immediately: We are writing to inform you of a change to the terms and conditions of your American Express Serve® Account: International ATM: Beginning January 6, 2016 you will no longer be...
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Domain Name Tool
My favorite domain name tool/business name generator is Panabee.com. It is great for finding available domains with related words or unique domain extensions.
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Great Products Require Iterative Improvement
People coming in from the outside, as well as employees, look at the process and say, “you know, if you would just get the story right—just write the script and get it right the first time, before you...
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OCR of License Plates in Drive Through
Background The app is the Taco Bell mobile app; customers can earn rewards, get coupons, and order food for pickup. After conducting customer interviews and a small survey (n=2), the biggest consumer...
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Eliminating My Wallet
I have been trying to minimize and eventually eliminate my wallet and keys for a couple of years. I recently tried to scan all my membership cards into a mobile app. It made my wallet very thin, but...
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1st Financial Bank Flow
I drive by 1st Financial Bank everyday on my way to work and I was curious about what they do. Turns out they issue student credit cards. I tried to get one for my collection. 1. Application Page...
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Bad Software is Easy
Bad software or bad products are really easy to make. In fact, you don’t really have to try to make bad software. If you don’t try, it will just happen by itself. Like making moldy bread. Nobody...
View ArticleDon’t Be An 18th Century Product Manager
Even when you find genuinely good things to copy, there’s another pitfall to be avoided. Be careful to copy what makes them good, rather than their flaws. It’s easy to be drawn into imitating flaws,...
View ArticleThe Wrong Login Can Kill An App
Bushel.ag is a mobile app designed to help elevators serve their farmers. Earlier competitors had farmers log in every time they wanted to use the app. All the competitors failed. Bushel’s secret...
View ArticleA Day in the Life of a Product Manager
Excited to present today with Ben Arnold for the Sioux Falls PMISD Community of Practice. Learning to Live with Disappointing Everyone, at Least a Little… Project management managers deal with having...
View ArticleMeet SORA – Our Brand New Interview Television Platform
LOS ANGELES (JUNE 13, 2019) — SONIFI Solutions, introduced SORA, its next generation interactive platform for hospitality. SORA is designed for the ever-evolving hospitality industry – empowering...
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