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"The Customer is Always Right" is Wrong
For more than a century, businesses have been told to treat “the customer as always right.” Coined by retailers like Harry Gordon...

Paul Peterson
Jul 28, 20253 min read


Beyond Customer Visits: Why Catalytic Customers Belong in the Mix
Product managers rarely suffer from a lack of customer contact. Calls, site visits, advisory councils—most teams have some version of...

Paul Peterson
Jul 16, 20252 min read


You Don’t Need More Interviews. You Need Better Ones.
A lot of product teams are doing the right things, at least on paper. They’re shipping regularly, talking to users repeatedly, running...

Paul Peterson
Jul 4, 20252 min read


The Research Bottleneck Is Slowing Your Best Ideas
In fast-moving product organizations, timely decision-making is often the difference between momentum and missed opportunity. Too...

Paul Peterson
Mar 24, 20253 min read


The Collapse of Traditional Market Research—and What Comes Next
Market research is in crisis. Response rates are plummeting. Fraud is rampant. AI-generated survey responses are muddying data. Consumers...

Paul Peterson
Mar 4, 20254 min read


Don’t Test for Success. Aim to Fail Instead.
Designing Product Research To Expose Product Flaws In product development, testing is often approached as a process to validate success....

Paul Peterson
Feb 8, 20253 min read


Engage. Listen. Innovate. Building High-Impact Customer Advisory Boards
At CoinJar Insights & Strategy, we’ve seen firsthand how meaningful it can be to engage your most invested customers. One of the best...

Paul Peterson
Jan 5, 20253 min read


The Echo Chamber Problem, or You are Not Your Target
As product managers, it's natural to believe that we know our products inside and out. After all, we are the architects behind the...

Paul Peterson
Jan 3, 20254 min read


Beyond the Basics of Product-Market Fit
Achieving product-market fit is often hailed as the Holy Grail of innovation. It’s the moment where your product’s value proposition...

Paul Peterson
Dec 31, 20243 min read


The 3 Biggest Mistakes in Customer Feedback and How to Avoid Them
Customer feedback is the lifeblood of meaningful innovation. It guides effective product planning, informs resonant marketing strategies,...

Paul Peterson
Jul 16, 20243 min read


The Future of Customer Understanding: Moving Past the Old Playbook
The practice of customer insights is overdue for a seismic shift. Traditional methods of understanding customers are no longer sufficient...

Paul Peterson
Jun 29, 20243 min read
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