Customer discovery interviews are key to discerning if a market exists for a product or service. Honing your discovery skills is essential for scaling.
Newsletter: Customer Discovery Interviews
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Customer Interviews
Customer Discovery interviews are key to discovering whether or not a market exists for your product or service and the skills and questions you hone in the early market will continue to be refined as you scale. This month we focus on how to start them, techniques for cultivating your curiosity so that you learn as much as possible, and some suggestions for how to review and organize your findings on an ongoing basis.
5 Ways To Start Customer Discovery Interviews
Customer discovery interviews are essential to testing key B2B product hypotheses and understanding your target customers’ needs. Broadly there are five ways that you can reach out to potential customers to have a discovery conversation.
Early Customer Conversations: Use Appreciative Inquiry and Amplify Positive Deviance
Customer Interviews: Allow Yourself to Be Surprised
Customer Interviews: How To Organize Findings
I sat down with Bruce La Fetra of La Fetra Consulting for a conversation on customer interviews. We compared notes on qualitative conversations versus quantitative surveys and exchanged tips and tricks. Bruce presented some great insights on how to organize findings and how to take best advantage of insights gleaned from interviews.
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