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The Best Ways to Expand and Diversify

When a business wants to expand, it basically has two options: to expand its customer base or to extend its product range.  It can do both, but this is risky – there are always risks in moving into a new market.  The way to deal with these is to avoid moving too far from your base.  One of the two best ways to expand is to find customers who are in some ways similar to your present ones and to sell your existing products or services to them. …

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As the start of the year we look forward to making New Year’s resolutions for the changes we will make this year.  Our personal aims may be to spend more time at the gym, spend more time with the family or both.

I wonder what resolutions will be top of the list for the product managers in 2012.  I feel that this year with the economic outlook still uncertain that prioritization will become a key topic as product managers everywhere try to maximize the benefit to clients and ensure…

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Intelligent People in their state-of-the-industry Q1 report highlight the following hot sectors for Product Management:

• Media & Travel
• Digital Marketing in Media (especially CRM and email marketing)
• Social Media Marketing
• Online retail optimisation experience (specifically transaction…

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As some of you may know, I have been particularly unimpressed by the level of understanding in the UK about Product Management from those that don't practice it. And Cambridge, with all its potential, really needs to understand the union of technology and business / market requirements. This is the primary reason why I joined and continue to contribute to this network.



After a particularly frustrating call with a recruiter last week, I set aside some time…

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On Wednesday evening (13 January 2010) I attended Cambridge Wireless' Business SIG meeting(www.cambridgewireless.co.uk).



Big topic of discussion that evening was the importance of Product Managers to ventures. About half the room seemed to agree, but the other half didn't know that Product Managers do marketing (or even what a PM does). It came as a bit of a surprise to them that marketing wasn't just about brochures and… Continue