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Foundation Series: Cross-Selling and Upselling

Posted on: October 28, 2009December 7, 2009

You have an eCommerce site. You sell products online. Do you cross-sell additional products? Do you upsell to better products? This article explains the difference between cross-sell and upsell, and looks at some real-world data about the effectiveness of both.

Agile / Interface Design / Product Management / Software development / UX

Agile Prioritization: Which Widget?

Posted on: October 19, 2009October 19, 2009

Your company is building out a toolkit to support third-party developers. You’ll need a bunch of different types of widgets – combo-boxes, text entry fields, domain-specific controls, etc. You’ve got a long list of desired controls from your customers. You’re agile. What do you build first?

Business Analysis / Interface Design / Product Management / ROI / Software development / Usability / UX

Modeling User Competency

Posted on: October 13, 2009

Perpetually intermediate (competent) users. Users who briefly exist as novice users and never become experts. Most of your users are competent, and you should design for them. Competent users have different needs and different expectations than novice or expert users. How do you know your user’s competency levels, so you […]

Product Management / Uncategorized

Strategy and Product Roadmaps

Posted on: October 5, 2009

Steven Haines, author of The Product Manager’s Desk Reference, recently gave a webinar on effectively using product roadmaps for the Technology Product Management Council at Forrester Research. You should check it out.

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