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We‘re all obsessed with product brands, especially those driven by a vision and purpose. Product: Knowledge explores the art of the product launch, from secret Obsession Branding™ techniques to product positioning, product-market fit and other specialized attributes of product marketing that combine to become the difference between stratospheric success stories and catastrophic product failures. It’s the podcast about creating and marketing SaaS, B2B and consumer products people truly need. ...
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We are Canadian Sisters with similar interests in all things a little creepy, a tad strange and every bit macabre. Join us as we share some stories that we find especially fascinating while also enjoying a bit of a laugh.
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In this special episode, we're thrilled to announce the release of "I Need That: Creating and Marketing Products People Are Compelled to Buy," now available in audiobook format! Author of “I Need That” and host Laurier Mandin walks you through: Introduction to "I Need That" and its core premise The psychology behind why people buy certain products …
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It can be infuriating how much time your marketing efforts take—especially when they get zero traction. Wouldn't it be great if you could focus on acing activities you know will generate results? Chris Smith, cofounder of Curaytor and author of the bestselling (and newly revised edition of) “The Conversion Code,” shares data-proven ways to attract …
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It's not unusual for product makers to be terrified by the mere notion of product validation work. Often over-invested emotionally and financially in the product, they're afraid of what they might learn. And many don’t have confidence in their approach to conducting validation research. But the learning will come one way or another, Darshan Mehta p…
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Nearly all product companies grapple with pricing. What model is the best fit? How do you maximize the market value for a novel product without losing customers when it comes time to pay? Dan Balcauski has spent 15 years helping product makers solve exactly these challenges. As founder of Austin, Texas-based Product Tranquility, Dan has guided many…
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Ever noticed that while most brands battle constantly with competitors for small gains, leaders like Apple, Tesla and Amazon play in an entirely different sphere? Stan Bernard, author of “Brands Don't Win” believes it's because the branding game is a lost cause. In this episode, he tells you how leaders transcend branding by creating a game no one …
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R-RRIP! That was the way we've marketed and sold products for ages, being torn apart. Facebook, Google Ads and other digital ad platforms have been hammered by consumer privacy implementations, making it impossible for many advertisers to sell their products online profitably. Meanwhile, a succession of unbelievable supply chain issues make costs a…
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Selling an innovative product relies on making change. And there can be a lot of resistance to adopting a new product of any size, but especially for B2B products with long sales cycles and complex onboarding processes. Margie Agin, author of Brand Breakthrough and chief strategist of Centerboard Marketing, helps product makers to accelerate adopti…
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We talk a lot about the high failure rates of consumer products. It’s a tough road, and launching a hit product is a rare event. Michael Sandeen is an innovator who’s exploded those odds—and he’s now done it twice. Thirty-five years ago Michael created Spin Jammer, a uniquely spinnable flying disc that sold by the millions in big-box retail stores …
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Consumers have had enough of phony product brands. Fabricated figureheads like Betty Crocker and the Marlboro Man ruled the twentieth century, but social media and customer reviews have permanently altered the landscape. Not only can we handle the truth—we demand it. While everyone talks ad nauseam about “authenticity,” it’s still much easier to fa…
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Pricing can make or break any product. Set it too high, and even best-fit customers will take a pass. Too low and you’re devaluing the product, stunting growth and possibly starving it for cash. But how do you craft a pricing structure that is just right—and be confident it is? And then how do you package your product offerings to attract specific …
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As a 3-time startup founder and 5-time entrepreneur, Étienne has worked in the trenches of building tech companies and introducing innovative products. In “Solving Product,” he has created a reference book to help product creators through the many complex puzzles from ideation to startup, growth, expansion and retrospective. Feeling stuck with solv…
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If you’ve been involved in creating and marketing a new product, you know all too well the danger of having your ideas stolen or copied. In fact, it probably keeps you up at night—just as it did for innovators like Steve Jobs. Patenting the features that make your product unique is a common approach, but is having a patent worth the hefty initial a…
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Product positioning is essential to sales, and you simply can’t scale without getting it right. Yet most marketers and executives can’t even tell you what positioning means, much less how to do it. April Dunford is on a mission to change that. As an internationally recognized product positioning expert, April helps startups get their positioning st…
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What if science could prove that marketers are doing EVERYTHING wrong? Patrick Renvoisé is a brain scientist who has co-authored two books claiming that is exactly the case. At SalesBrain, the consultancy where he is Chief Persuasion Officer, Patrick has helped over 100,000 CEOs identify and target the secret Buy Button inside their customer's brai…
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Taking an innovative product across the commercialization chasm from the Innovators and Early Adopters to the much larger Early Majority is an immense challenge at the best of times. During a crisis—or in the days following one—it often becomes even harder. Yet with the proper focus, chaos can even thrust some products across the chasm faster than …
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Warning:This podcast is 18+ we do use colorful language... a lot and sometimes we talk about things that make people feel uncomfortable. Viewer discretion is advised. In episode 2 we take a look at the early crime life of Luka Magnotta. you may be familiar with this same due to the Netflix documentary "don't fuck with cats". However we have decided…
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Warning:This podcast is 18+ we do use colorful language... a lot and sometimes we talk about things that make people feel uncomfortable. Viewer discretion is advised. In episode 1 we talk about a small town killer, who murdered his family. We can only get better with time and we hope you enjoy what we have to say. You can also follow us on Instagra…
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Marketing is all about differentiation. The leaders behind every product brand have thought about, rehearsed, or delivered an elevator speech about why you should choose their offering—but VERY few have baked in a concise way of articulating it to their customers. If you create physical products, the most important differentiation may not be the pr…
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Podcasting is just complicated enough to introduce anxiety and resistance for those who might otherwise want to try sharing their voice. A new audio market segment of "podcast mixer-recorders" aims to address the complexity problem. Podcasting is complicated because usually more than one speaker is involved. Getting audio into a computer is easy. G…
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Inspiration for a new product can come from anywhere—even a pet store. Once you’re inspired and you’ve got a fire in your belly, you need to find a way to make your idea real. Having ideas is easy; paying for them, not so much. Some startups use their own money or try to find angel investors. It can be equally challenging and discouraging to find v…
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Naming a company is more complicated than naming a baby. It just is. There’s more family involvement. Is the product for men, women, seniors; is it for a particular activity or sport that has its own jargon and vocabulary? What country is the product going to be sold in—now and down the road? What are the social mores of that country, and what cult…
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For our first episode of 2020, we go to the very heart of product launch: the product development cycle. It used to be that if you had a product idea you had to not only finesse the ideation, but somehow cobble together a development team for each stage of the process. For first-time inventors or even seasoned product brands, it was a journey fraug…
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If you ask Mom what she thinks about your new product, she’ll lie and tell you it’s fabulous — even if nothing could be farther from the truth. When you’re launching an innovative product, product-market fit is essential. That means knowing a sufficient, reachable customer base will be more excited about the product than you are. Conducting validat…
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Manufacturing in China is different. How different is hard to describe if you’ve never seen it. It’s not that there are cities with factories. There are cities OF factories. And those cities often specialize in a particular kind of manufacturing. Competition is extreme and cutting corners is common. Having a good idea for a product is one thing, bu…
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Paragraph A licensing deal can be transformative to an inventor or product brand. It can open up new markets and create ongoing passive income. But doing it wrong can be a nightmare and leave piles of money on the table. In our fourth instalment of Product: Knowledge, we did a fly-over of intellectual property with Erika Murray, an Intellectual Pro…
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A little research into “Product Marketing” and the name Justin Jackson will show up, a lot. Whether he’s running his podcasting platform Transistor.fm, his bootstrapper community MegaMaker, writing his blog, juggling multiple podcasts and Twitter accounts while being daddy to his four kids, Justin Jackson is remarkably prolific. Justin thinks about…
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A little research into “Product Marketing” and the name Justin Jackson will show up, a lot. Whether he’s running his podcasting platform Transistor.fm, his bootstrapper community MegaMaker, writing his blog, juggling multiple podcasts and Twitter accounts while being daddy to his four kids, Justin Jackson is remarkably prolific. Justin thinks about…
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Video, at least television, has been around for a long time. Commercials and product demos have been around forever. So why are we talking about video as though it’s something new and mysterious? We’re talking about video because digital marketing adds complexity and sharability. Video is a cool medium: the audience is passive. They feel what - mor…
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If you’re preparing to launch a new product—or have ever relished the experience of removing one from its packaging—this episode is for you. The popularity of “unboxing” is just one illustration of how important product packaging has become. Packaging is no longer merely to “protect, deliver and entice;” but a highly experiential differentiating op…
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Filip Valica is a mechanical engineer who has worked for large corporations and as founder of The Product Startup has coached numerous product brands through his development and launch process, a comprehensive view of the product lifecycle that begins with an original idea and culminates with sales. In this episode, he describes how product design …
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Part 1 of 2: Alan Klement wrote "When Coffee and Kale Compete: Become great at making products people will buy." The book provides a new way of thinking about your business: people don't buy your product for features, they hire your product to do a job: to make their life better. Klement's "Jobs to Be Done" (JTBD) idea is game-changing, transformin…
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Part 2 of 2: Alan Klement wrote "When Coffee and Kale Compete: Become great at making products people will buy." The book provides a new way of thinking about your business: people don't buy your product for features, they hire your product to do a job: to make their life better. Klement’s perspective on “Jobs to Be Done” (JTBD) is game-changing, t…
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Bryn, Laurier, and Andreas discuss ideas from the classic book, “Crossing The Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers” by Geoffrey A. Moore. Until Moore’s book codified and revolutionized how marketers think and talk about product marketing, a “customer” was perceived as anyone who might potentially buy a product. B…
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Life in the information age has transformed what we mean by "products." A product used to be anything you could taste/touch/feel. Today, information about a products is just as, or more valuable, than the product itself. Securities laws and Intellectual Property (IP) law are all about the legal protection of information. Episode 7 puts a spotlight …
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Haagen Dazs and Doritos are made-up words, meant to sound Norwegian and Spanish. Your own name is the sweetest sound you've ever heard. But what would have happened had Jeff Bezos given Amazon his preferred name: Cadabra (as in Abracadabra)? What if Starbucks had used its first choice: Cargo House? Names can be a boon or a bust. Laurier Mandin and …
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Obsession brands are everyone's standout favourite. Consumers will pay more, wait in line, or travel out of their way to get the brands they're obsessed with. But what's really so special about one brand versus another? Why do consumers flock to one product, and ignore nearly identical competitors? Bryn Griffiths talks with product marketing expert…
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Welcome to Episode 1 of Product: Knowledge is an introduction to Product Marketing, which isn't just marketing products. Graphos specializes in Product Marketing - which takes businesses from product development, market research, and consumer engagement. Host Bryn Griffiths talks with Laurier Mandin, CEO and Principal of Graphos, and Andreas Schwab…
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