nphadke
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I am a Product Manager. I am responsible for discovering a usable, profitable and feasible product and ensuring that it is successfully brought to life. I sit at the intersection of Business, Technology and User Experience
Business - Yes, I'm a suit. I'm responsible for maximising the value my organisation will get from the product.
Technology - No, I don't do code or design (although I have the chops if need be). It's my job to leverage technology to help the business. This means I have to understand enough to know what's possible and by when
User Experience - I'm your guy inside my company. I don't design it but I do set the direction.
Doesn't that all sound fancy. But when it comes down to it, my job is to do whatever I can to bring about an awesome product at the end of which, I take all the blame and pass around all the accolades
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The article doesn't mention this but if there is a freemium component to the product, a 2% conversion rate is actually not bad. Not great, but not bad either. From what I've seen, a 3-7% conversion rate would be quite…