By Saeed Khan Have you ever sat through a product demo and then at the end of it thought, “Well that’s an hour of my life I’m never getting back.” [ … ]
Category: Demos
Product Demos are like First Dates – Here’s Why
How often do you see a product demo and think, “OK, this is 20 minutes of my life that I’ll never get back.” The fact is, most product demos, particularly [ … ]
Not Everyone Wants to Play Games
All over the web and in all the product management communities, there are articles and discussions about gamification. If you’ve been offline for a while, gamification is about applying design [ … ]
8 lessons we can learn from Infomercials
You know you’re a Products Geek, when you find a show like Pitchmen appealing. Pitchmen, on the Discovery Channel, is a behind the scenes docudrama about infomerical marketers and how [ … ]
ProductCamp Toronto – Oct 4, 2009
In just about 3 weeks, we’ll be hosting the 2nd ProductCamp in Toronto. Last year, at the first event, over 100 people came out to participate in a day of [ … ]
Screw the Sales Process. Study the Buying Process
You can make up a Sales Process. You have to talk to actual buyers to map the Buying Process. When you do that, everything will change.
Usability is all in the details
If you haven’t checked it out, take a look at Cindy Alvarez’s blog: The Experience is the Product. She recently posted a good article entitled: Getting beyond beta: Measuring your [ … ]
When product demos go very wrong
By Saeed Khan I had to share this with you. While more hardware than software, this video only goes to show you that it’s always important to rehearse your product [ … ]
Product Manager vs. Product Management (part 6)
In part 5, I showed how you can begin to decompose the areas where teams, particularly Product Management, provide key deliverables to other teams. Here’s what the heat map looked [ … ]
A no-demo tradeshow…
So, a few weeks back, a number of Product Management bloggers were invited to participate in a “blogfest” (blogapalooza?), responding to Steve Johnson’s post entitled “Why Demo at Tradeshows?” Both [ … ]