Product Chats Podcast

What a wonderful time to be product marketing, and Pragmatic instructor, Rich Nutinsky, explains why in this episode hosted by Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing for Pragmatic Institute. They discuss how the world of product management has evolved because of new technology and refined approaches to customer research. Rich also shares his own experiences as a product professional and how product training was a game-changer early in his product management career path. They conclude that we are in fact in the age of products.

Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing for Pragmatic Institute, interviews Dr. Nancy Li, director of product, mentor and YouTuber. In this episode, Nancy gives all the details on her powerful story and some amazing tips on climbing to the top of the product industry, from worker-bee to director and beyond.

Dr. Nancy has mentored more than 100 professionals to break through in product management, check out her YouTube below.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIXcpwAsd6uO6PQ7VaMbXpg

"Demand generation at its base definition is simply generating demand for a product or service, and then converting that demand into a lead." - Charlotte Bohnett

Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing for Pragmatic Institute, interviews Charlotte Bohnett, the senior director of demand generation at WebPT. In this episode, she talks not only about what makes demand generation successful but also what qualifies as quality content marketing. As a leader in the field, she shares strategies for building effective content marketing teams from the ground up and talks about the importance of retaining the best employees on your team.

Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing for Pragmatic Institute, interviews Leidy Klotz, author of Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less. He encourages people to fight their instinct to add to projects, products and to-do lists as a way to display competence. Instead, Leidy teaches listeners how to add value to life and work through subtraction. The muscle for adding is strong for most people but subtraction takes practice and intention through prompts and reminders. During the episode, Leidy provides strategies to add subtractive solutions to their toolbox.
"Historically, adding was the only option to improve things. But now, there are so many opportunities to take things away to make things better." - Leidy

Listen in to our recent Product Chat with Oji Udezue, chief product officer at Parsable, as he discusses his experience and shares fundamental product systems that can accelerate your path to achieving repeatable, consistent innovation for your organization.

Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing for Pragmatic Institute, and Diana Richardson, technical product manager at Core Logic, explore the challenges that immerge with team and culture during an acquisition. Diana experienced acquisitions during her career and she shares how to navigate the uncertainty during the early stages of acquisition and how to spot opportunities rather than worry about "what ifs."

During the upcoming holiday, allow us to be your guide for some excellent product listening. We look back at one of our most popular episodes featuring David Meerman Scott.

What does neuroscience and selfies have in common?  They help create "fandom".

Join us for this episode of our Pragmatic Live Podcast to address just this, and what it means to build and keep fans. Our own Rebecca Kalogeris is joined by David Meerman Scott, to discuss his recent book, Fanocracy: How to turn fans into customers and customers into fans, to address more than just proximity, but how you can empower your fans to help you grow. We chat with David to understand what Fanocracy is, how it can be utilized and how we can tap into our existing fandom. 

Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing for Pragmatic Institute, and Diane Pierson, an instructor at Pragmatic Institute, talk about how the product industry has evolved during the last 15 months as the world drastically changed during the pandemic. They discuss what changes they predict are permanent and what might be a temporary shift to manage a unique environment. Rebecca and Diane also talk about how to measure success when the baseline is no longer relevant, and how to put structures in place to prepare for the unpredictable."You can't know what's going to happen, but be ready to act when it does. Keep these lessons with you and use them as you go forward. I think the future is going to be different, but I think we've got a lot of promise for this role as we go forward."

"If your salespeople are asking for discounts that are too big or too often, then your product team hasn't given sales the tools, knowledge and confidence they need to win deals at the right price."
- Mark Stiving.

Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing for Pragmatic Institute, talks with Mark Stiving, founder of Impact Pricing, about the importance of value-based pricing. In this conversation, Rebecca and Mark explain what a value-based pricing table is and how it can equip sales teams so they can confidently and effectively approach prospective buyers.

In this episode, Jennifer Romanowski, senior product manager at FordDirect, explains how training with Pragmatic Institute revolutionized her approach to product management. The host Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing for Pragmatic Institute, talks with Jennifer about how she introduced Pragmatic training to FordDirect and the big changes it influenced at the company.
"I completed the pragmatic courses Foundation, Focus and Build and walked out with light bulbs going off. I believe that I was a good product manager, but now not only did I have an entire framework but I also knew how to help other product managers.

There are always more ideas than time. In this episode, Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing for Pragmatic Institute, interviews Pragmatic Instructor, Amy Graham, about how to evaluate potential opportunities to determine what is worth a "yes" and what deserves a "no." The system gives every person (regardless of job title) an opportunity to feel heard while also letting the data speak to the viability of the idea.

Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing for Pragmatic Institute, Paul Young, an instructor at Pragmatic Institute, have a fun and light conversation about the products that have had a positive impact on their life. They dive into side discussions about how products can solve important and relevant problems but create new problems in the process. They also sprinkle in tips and tricks on how to create products people are excited to share with others.

Stakeholders in a company are moved by two things: one is business results, and the other is stories. The goal is to break down the business metrics into usage metrics to start having a complete picture of your target customers.

Dan Balcauski, principal consultant at Product Tranquility, joins our host, Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing for Pragmatic Institute, to discuss the relationship between qualitative and quantitative data and how to use both to capture powerful insights.

The term "NIHITO" or "nothing interesting happens in the office" promotes getting outside the comfort of your office and speaking with customers directly, but that certainly can't be the only way to get good market data, can it? Especially in the time of Covid-19, what else can product professionals tap into in order to compile this type of data?

Former Pragmatic instructor and SVP of customer operations at Houghton, Kirsten Butzow, joins our host Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing and product strategy for Pragmatic Institute, to discuss how her current position is a treasure trove of market data, and how product professionals can better understand their customer segments in order to tailor their products to their customers.

How do you create innovative and solution driven product teams?  How do you create a culture and environment that hums with creativity?  Those questions are filled with buzz words we all know well, but in this episode, we get into how it's actually done.

Oji Udezue, chief product officer for Parsable, joins our host Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing and product strategy for Pragmatic Institute, to dive deep into how he has created said environments, and used his extensive experience in the product realm to create top-tier teams that focus on creative solutions.

What do companies like Humana, Uber and Farmers Insurance have in common?  They can see into the future. How do they do this?  Always-on consumer data.

Nis Frome, cofounder and VP of product at Feedback Loop, joins our host Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing and product strategy for Pragmatic Institute, to discuss how this type of data can provide live foresight as opposed to insight into past events.  You may even say it's a super power, but the kicker is, anyone can learn to leverage this type of data to better understand their customers.

Flashback Friday's - Why do we do this?  Over years worth of content, there are times where previous episodes contain useful information that valuable enough to revisit.

Product marketing expert Kevin Krusiewicz of Marketing Trail Guide joins Pragmatic Live host Rebecca Kalogeris to discuss the importance of understanding your market before creating and marketing your products. Understanding who is going to use and buy your product, performing market research and really understanding the different buying journeys of your personas ensures that you’re not building and marketing a product in search of a market, and are instead creating and presenting a product a market has been searching for. 

Want to learn more about market research, persona building and product marketing? Check out our Foundations and Market courses. And make sure you subscribe today so you never miss a great episode of Pragmatic Live!

What does it mean to be part of the product-led movement, and what does it take to transition into a product-first strategy?

Wes Bush, founder and CEO of Product-Led and author of best seller "Product-Led Growth: How To Build a Product That Sells Itself." , joins our host Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing and product strategy for Pragmatic Institute, to get to the core of what the product led movement really is.

Ready to learn how to become a product first business?  Check out our full roster of updated courses!

Learn more about Wes Bush and his book here

* This episode of Pragmatic Live was captured during our recent Product Chat

How do you get inside someone's head to truly understand what they need?  Well, until that technology exists, there are steps you can take to get close when it comes to your marketing efforts.

In this episode of Pragmatic Live, COO Greg Bond and CEO Erik Wolf of Estound join our own Georgina Donahue to discuss the crucial steps in creating content that is not only profitable but transforms your marketing efforts.

The "Internet of Things" is a common term, but do you really understand what it is and why it’s important?

This week, we take a look back at an excellent breakdown of what this term really means and more.

Daniel Elizalde, IoT product manager extraordinaire, joins Pragmatic Live to discuss the Internet of Things and its impact on businesses. Daniel examines the importance of using IoT to collect real-world, real-time data to help enterprises expand their abilities, as well as the role of product management with IoT. He dives into the skills needed for product managers to really make the most of IoT to translate the data into real success.

Would you like to learn more about data and product management? Register for our new course, The Business of Data Science. And be sure to listen to our other great podcasts, and subscribe so you never miss another great episode.

• Overcoming tension and misunderstanding between product and design teams
• Advocating for design resources
• Partnering with UX designers on NIHITO research
• Crafting user personas and applying them throughout the product life cycle
• Framing problems vs. goals
• Creating “How Might We?” statements for ideation

• Artifact | “How Might We?” Statements Template
• Article | From the “Black Box” to the Sandbox: Advancing Product Management and Design Collaboration
• Article | Building Product Strategy with Design Thinking
• Article | Ask the Expert: “The Designers I Work with Keep Asking Me to Bring Them in Earlier. Should I?”
• Podcast | The Importance of Design for Product Managers
• Podcast | How to Build a Stronger Partnership with Design
• eBook | Exploring Design

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.

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.

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.

The history of competitive intelligence is murky and very, very manual.  

Enter Ellie Mirman Scott, Crayon CMO.

On this episode of Pragmatic Live, Ellie joins our host, Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing for Pragmatic Institute to not only discuss the importance of competitive intelligence but how you can compartmentalize compiling the data you need regularly, so it doesn't become a quarterly or annual beast of a task.

You can learn more about Ellie by visiting crayon.co.

On this episode of Pragmatic Live, Courtney Dagher, senior marketing manager for Inbound 2020 , joins our host, Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing for Pragmatic Institute to discuss how the Inbound conference made the transition from in person, to online and lessons learned along the way.

To learn more about Inbound 2020 visit inbound.com

Our very own PAC community leader, Georgina Cannie will also be speaking at this great event, don't miss it!

What is a forever transaction?

On this episode of Pragmatic Live, Robbie Kellman Baxter, strategic consultant and author of The Forever Transaction , joins our host, Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing for Pragmatic Institute to discuss how to create a thriving "forever transaction" business and lessons she has learned being a top strategist in the field of subscription business.

To learn more about Robbie or listen to her podcast, visit robbiekellmanbaxter.com.

In light of recent events pertaining to Covid-19, more product teams are working remote than ever before, and as we all know, this presents some interesting challenges to overcome but also unforeseen benefits. 

On this episode of Pragmatic Live, Jon Gatrell, chief product officer and VP of operations at Loren Data Corp. and former Pragmatic instructor, joins our host, Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing for Pragmatic Institute to discuss the challenges product teams all over the world are facing while working remotely and how they can stay focused strategically while doing so.  Jon also shares some tips you can incorporate immediately to be more effective in your communications during this time.

Whether you're in leadership, or part of a product team, this podcast is for you.

(Captured during a recent Pragmatic Product Chat)

On this episode of Pragmatic Live, managing director of BMI, joins our host, Eddie Gordon, to discuss how to make proper business shifts for the future.

When you think of the practice of win/loss analysis, what comes to mind? 

On this episode of Pragmatic Live, founder of Clozd, Spencer Dent, joins our host, Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing for Pragmatic Institute to discuss the true power of win/loss analysis and what it means to professionals in various roles within the product industry.  

This episode was recorded during our recent product chat.

The buyers journey is all about storytelling, so how to we re-imagine a buyers journey in order to make it worth their time to care and gain their trust?

Join Div Manickam, director of portfolio messaging at Dell Boomi and our own Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing for Pragmatic Institute, as they discuss re-imagining of the buyers journey. 

It’s time. 

It’s time to re-think sales enablement and go-to market strategies.

On this episode of Pragmatic Live, Mike Smart, founder and principal consultant for Egress Solutions Inc, joins our host, Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing for Pragmatic Institute to discuss the old truths of sales enablement and go to market strategies and how companies that can pivot quickly, are the ones that will survive in the current ever-evolving business landscape.