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How I captured 2,778 subscribers in 4 months
In June of 2016, my friend Yu-kai Chou approached me with a challenge he had: What can I do to exponentially improve my business right now? “What is your long term vision?” I asked. “I want to build an...
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Product Design analysis of Yelp
Octalysis is a Gamification framework. I use it to analyze products or services and to design for human motivation throughout a system (Human-Focused Design). You can learn more about Octalysis here....
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Dashboard human-focused redesign of Bluehost
Bluehost has been good to me for the past 10 years. I use them for junloayza.com and many of my other sites because they have absolutely terrific customer support. However, to be brutally honest, their...
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Product Discovery analysis of Redbooth
There are 4 phases to a player’s journey for your product: Discovery: how a player learns about your product On-boarding: how a player signs up and learns how to use your product Scaffolding: the...
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Product growth analysis of Headspace
Today we’ll conduct a product growth analysis of Headspace, a mobile app in the meditation and wellness space. According to Wikipedia, Headspace has over 6 million users (as of 2016). That’s quite a...
View ArticleDo you need to know how to code to be a Product Manager?
If you’d like to ask me questions, @ me on Twitter. The following question comes from Vaibhav from the Product School Slack Community: Did you learn technical skills on your own? Or you do not need...
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Time management for Product Managers (70-20-10 rule)
If you’d like to ask me questions, @ me on Twitter. The following question comes from David from the PMHQ community on Slack: How do you manage your time as a Product Manager? When should I focus on...
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I’m removing Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram from my mobile. Will you join me?
Over the past 10 years, I have secretly obsessed over time management and productivity. When it comes to work output, I’m usually the team member that can produce the most amount of work with the least...
View ArticleHow to discover what a user needs
If you’d like to ask me questions, @ me on Twitter. The following question comes from Samantha from the Product School community on Slack: How do you interact with your actual end users? I believe...
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How to manage a small team using Trello
This is part 2 of my productivity and time management framework. Read part 1 here. We have a small, 4-person, part-time, distributed team at Chou Force. Because we never meet in the same physical...
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