The Accidental Product Manager
Home Of The Billion Dollar Product Manager Where You Too Can Learn To Be A Wildly Successful Product Manger
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Dr. Jim Anderson shows how product managers can create PowerPoint slides that look good and clearly communicate product information. Dr. Anderson reveals the secret to creating PowerPoint slides that can really connect with your audience. You don’t have … Read more
Is it possible that you are managing too many products? Sure, as product managers we actually like it when we have multiple products to manage. Sure, we’ll complain to everyone, but deep down inside we really like the assurance of having multiple products belong to us because then we’re confidant that at least one of … Read more
Dr. Jim Anderson shows which skill a product manager must have in order to be successful. Dr. Anderson reveals how this one skills controls everything that a product manager does. He points out how this can impact the team that you have working on your product, how it can impact how you handle stress, … Read more
You would think that simply by setting the price of your product and then telling the world about it would wrap up that part of being a Product Manager, right? Well guess what, in this era of the Internet everything having to do with product pricing has become more complicated. What you need is a … Read more
Dr. Jim Anderson reveals how product managers at Coke are keeping track of their over 450 different brands of products. Dr. Anderson talks about how Coke product managers use a gate process to determine which products should make it to market, why Japan plays such an important role in how Coke introduces new products, … Read more
What would it take to get your customers to buy more of your product? Maybe if you offered them more choices – you know, more colors, more sizes, more brands, more flavors, etc. If they liked the new versions that you offered them, then maybe you could offer them still more versions of your product. … Read more
Dr. Jim Anderson shows how product managers and product marketers can use a color wheel to correctly choose colors for use in their next PowerPoint presentation. Dr. Anderson covers primary colors, secondary colors and then shows how to use the Microsoft Paint program to identify what colors are being used in a corporate or organization’s … Read more
Every product that you are put in charge of developing comes with an unwelcome addition – risk. We all know that risk exists and in fact many of us have developed ways to identify risk, quantify risk, and even manage risk. However it turns out that there is something very important that very few of … Read more
I’m willing to bet that if you got a bunch of product managers together and had them all sit in comfy chairs, lean back, close their eyes, and then you asked them what one thing in the world they most wanted at that moment, they would all tell you the same thing: real time marketing … Read more
Product Managers make decisions about colors all the time. Sometimes it has to do with a product logo, sometimes it has to do with the images that we use in a product brochure. The problem, is that most of us have ever had any training in this whole color thing. What are the colors that … Read more