ProductCamp Boston is coming to The Microsoft New England Research and Development Center again on Saturday, April 2 from 8 an to 4 pm.
I’m planning two sessions and I hope you’ll join me! Click the links to watch teaser presentations.
Solution Marketing Lessons from the Apple iPad
Track: Product Marketing
So you think that the Apple iPad is successful because it’s cheap and easy to use? It turns out that there’s much more behind the success of the Apple iPad. During this session, we’ll talk about how the iPad is at the center of a large customer-oriented solution. You’ll also learn how this solution is driving the iPad’s success and the key lessons you can use to drive successful solutions in your organization.
Startup Marketing Clinic (for Entrepreneurs and Product Managers/Product Marketers)
Track: Entrepreneurship/Startups
A first at ProductCamp! This interactive session will bring together experienced product managers and product marketers with entrepreneurs looking for guidance to their product and marketing challenges. If you’re a product manager or product manager with experience to share, we want YOU! And if you’re an entrepreneur with vexing – or easy – issues to solve, we’re here to help! Join us for this unique discussion!
Previous Sessions
Learn more at http://www.productcampboston.org.
I’ll see you on April 2!
Steve
Filed under ProductCamp, ProductCamp Boston, Solution Marketing
– By Steve Robins
Read Part I, Apple iPad: Tablet or Solution
A complete solution incorporates users, process, content, technology and services
Since January, I’ve been researching the Apple iPad in order to rate it as a solution. I even took one for a test drive on Sunday (thanks Jeff Berg of Purple Shark Consulting!). The rating is actually a strategic tool that enables marketers to meet customer needs by offering a complete solution. But the Apple iPad has generated so much hype that it’s a great solution to evaluate. The iPad received a rating of 4.3 out of 5. By comparison, most other tablet offerings today would probably score 2.5 or lower on the solution rating scale. The best possible score is 5 (complete solution) while the lowest is 1 (product, not a solution). This is an independent evaluation and was not funded by Apple.
Click “Keep reading” below to see the full solution evaluation of the Apple iPad.
– By Steve Robins
Read Part II, Apple iPad: Solution Evaluation
In recent weeks, you may have wondered about the anticipated success of the Apple iPad, similar to that of the iPhone and iPods that preceded it. Yes, Apple builds powerful, well-designed and easy-to-use products. And yes, despite Apple products’ frequently higher price, consumers have snapped up Apple Macs, iPods and iPhones at a rapid clip (over 75 million people use the iPhone and iTouch today). At the same time, the media industry itself is all abuzz that Apple devices, especially the iPad, will finally provide a content platform that enables them to make money from their digital content.
Apple doesn’t create technology platforms alone:
Apple solves problems.
But all of this misses one critical point: users have problems to solve and Apple does a better job of solving their “problems” than most other PC or electronics companies (Do you agree? Comment below!). So what is this “problem”? As the computer experience has shifted from digital content creation (think spreadsheets and documents – which will always be important) to digital content consumption (music, Web, images, video), people want to be able to access content from anywhere – on the go, at the office, in the living room. And thus far, Apple has solved the problem better than anyone else.
Filed under Case Studies, Solution Marketing, Solutions
– By Steve Robins
The iPad Solution. Why all the fuss about the Apple iPad? What makes it special? Read on to better understand the potential success of the iPad. Hint: the iPad is more than a device… it’s a solution.
The original post from April 4 has been split into two posts:
Filed under Case Studies, Solution Marketing, Solutions
The Strategic Role of Product Marketing
Presentation at ProductCamp ON>LINE Friday June 11 at 1:15 pm ET
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 Steve Robins has been helping companies to transform their marketing focus from technology platforms to customer solutions -- for over 10 years as a tech analyst and marketer at EMC Documentum, KANA and The Yankee Group. More... |
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