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#42 Community Context

In this essay you’ll learn:

  • Why context matters when doing customer research

  • How I did field study research on a movie set in LA

  • How you can do observational research in your business

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#41 Sustainable Growth

In this essay you’ll learn:

  • How to calculate customer lifetime value

  • Why developing your journey map is important

  • A 3-part guide to community journey mapping

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#40 Prioritize The Gap

In this video you’ll learn

  • How to let your journey map drive your product strategy

  • Why you need a product strategy anyway

  • How I mapped my 2024 marketing calendar

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#39 The ROI Of Community

In this essay you’ll learn:

  • How the leaders of the National Aquarium think about the ROI of community

  • How to get executive buy-in for community building

  • A framework for imagining your unique differentiating product

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#38 Stop Tinkering & Just Launch

In this essay you’ll learn:

  • How to think about an MVP product

  • What to do when your beta launch isn’t going as you hoped

  • The tough love you need to just launch.

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#37 Pivots In Life + Products

In this essay you’ll learn:

  • How working in architecture connects to what I do now

  • How the pivots in life take you exactly where you belong

  • How to pivot your product strategy

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#36 Your Q4 Product Priorities

In this video you'll learn how to:

  • Prioritize your product ideas and decide what to build first

  • Capture your ideas overtime

  • Develop a rolling quarterly product strategy

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#35 Are You Creating An Overwhelm Problem?

In this essay you’ll learn:

  • 3 ways to reduce overwhelm in your membership

  • The importance of simplifying your community journey

  • Ideas to help you create personalization for your customers in your business

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#31 Simplify The Journey

In this essay you’ll learn:

  • How to reduce directions in your customer journey

  • How to reduce benefits from your membership and keep the same price

  • The risks of a product overwhelm problem

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#30 Customer Journey Mapping

In this essay you’ll learn:

  • When to start and stop your customer journey map

  • 5 steps to create a customer journey map

  • How I define a product (+ list of examples)

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Rebecca Pierson Rebecca Pierson

#29 Product Workshop Step 1: The Foundational Problem

This essay is part of series outlining the behind the scenes of a mastermind product workshop I’m leading.

You’ll learn how to write a foundational problem statement for your business that will help you create your customer journey in the next step.

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#28 How To Quickly Increase Retention

In this essay you’ll learn:

  • 4 simple steps to test your sales page for perceived value

  • How onboarding contributes to value perception even before purchase

  • What we can learn from e-commerce brands in building strong value perception

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#27 The Community Product Disrupting Philanthropy

In this essay you’ll learn:

  • Grapevine’s product model: launch, onboarding, engagement & growth

  • Sara Lemelin’s 4 steps to build a giving circle to inspire your community work

  • 4 reflection questions to help you grow your business

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#26 The Retention Fail I Made At Bossbabe

In this essay you’ll learn:

  • Why my referral strategy failed at bossbabe

  • How Netflix keeps subscribers retained between the hits

  • 3 Action steps to plan your core + tangent content

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#24 The Surprising Way To Avoid Summer Churn

In this essay you'll learn:

  • 5 Steps to run a discovery research initiative

  • The research messaging script that retains your customers

  • Exactly how many customer interviews you need to develop your next product idea

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