Product Chats Podcast

How should design and product management team up on the journey to successful products? Jim Dibble joins host Rebecca Kalogeris on the January 8 episode of Pragmatic Live. Get to know one half of the team behind Pragmatic Institute’s upcoming design practice, take away next steps for creating more user-friendly products, and hear all about our exciting new course Design.

“I think that storytelling is the key to marketing” - Martin Aguinis How do you form a marketing strategy that curates for the 99%? Martin Aguinis, Product Marketing Manager at Google, joins us to discuss his strategy for reaching those that aren’t in the room with your product and how to focus on the human aspect of any product story to gain the most impact - not just results. From utilizing your customers to announce a new feature, to know your product thoroughly enough to connect its users to it, Martin discusses how he makes that connection and how he has broken many traditional marketing frameworks to successfully launch products. He shares with us one of his secrets to success: how taking a step back and thinking about/repurposing information can provide massive insight. Make sure you check out this podcast with Martin Aguinis on Marketing to the 99%, and sign up for one of our many Product Marketing courses to learn more about data science and how it can help your business. Subscribe today so you never miss out on any of our great resources.

“Community” is a word we hear plenty when online and they exist for many different groups, but how can product groups utilize them effectively? Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing and product strategy at Pragmatic Institute, is joined by the director of product management with Higher Logic, Kate Cologna, to discuss community, but more specifically how community can be effectively leveraged and enjoyed by product groups. Learn more about our awesome online community, the PAC, here.

Survey burnout is real.  Organizations are always looking for more insight from their customers and users, but there are a few things that make the Pragmatic Institute Annual Survey truly unique and beneficial to those who participate.  The data uncovered is even more valuable during a year in which we've experienced a constant change in the workplace. In this episode of Pragmatic Live, Cali Frisbie, our own content and social strategist turns the tables on Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing and product, to discuss the roots of the Pragmatic Institute Annual Survey and the types of helpful data that we publish within every year. Get in on the action by taking our annual survey here.

Data is changing the way we do business. But how is it changing product marketing? Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing at Pragmatic Marketing, is joined by former Pragmatic instructor and product marketing expert Kirsten Butzow to discuss the importance of being both market- and data-driven to tell the right story to your audience and market. Kirsten details examples of businesses that have utilized data to improve their business or struggled without using data.

Product managers and product teams own a ton of deliverables, and to ensure product success, strong decision making is one of the keys. On this very special episode of Pragmatic Live, product manager for the Google Analytics intelligence team, Neha Bansal, joins our host Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of Marketing and Product Strategy, to discuss effective decision making for product managers, obtaining stakeholder buy-in, and how Neha has maintained a strong decision-making process within Google’s framework. You can read Neha's blog here!

We all know design and product are powerful partners in the journey toward market-winning solutions. On this episode of Pragmatic Live, Co-Director of Design Practice Shannon McGarity joins our host Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of Marketing and Product Strategy, to share a sneak peek into Pragmatic Institute's upcoming design vertical. Listen as the two discuss the synergy between product management and design, Shannon’s advice for leveraging that partnership, and Pragmatic’s new design-focused course for product managers. Or, read the full interview here. Learn more about our design practice here and Shannon's rockstar background here.

With both products and markets becoming more and more complex and connected, what can companies do to adapt, overcome, and thrive? On this episode of Pragmatic Live longtime friend of the show Luke Freiler, CEO and founder of Centercode, joins our host, Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing for Pragmatic Institute to discuss the challenges companies are facing when launching products into markets which are becoming ever more increasingly complex, and what they can do to overcome these challenges.   Want to get ahead of your next product launch?  Check out our Launch course.   Learn more about Luke and Centercode here.

This week we go back in time and join Rebecca Kalogeris and Jen Haskell, Director of Sales Training and Enablement at Monotype as they discuss Sales Enablement teams and Jen's tips and tricks for their success.  Jen and Rebecca go over their approach to gaining credibility, making personal connections, and how to nurture each relationship with all of your sales reps. From looking at things from a psychological point of view to the difference in empathy and sympathy, this episode covers behaviors, results, and what it is that really drives performance.

There may be numerous reasons why your product isn't selling.  One of the biggest may be that finding common ground and working effectively with your sales team has become a challenge. In this episode of Pragmatic Live, Paul Young, Pragmatic Institute instructor,  discusses how you can build a product team that effectively works with sales.