A guide on how to use qualitative tactics to learn about whether a product has product/market fit or not.

1. Measuring & Understanding
Product/Market Fit
Qualitatively
Hiten Shah
hnshah@gmail.com

2. “
I ask existing users of a product
how they would feel if they could
no longer use the product.
SEAN ELLIS

3. Sean Ellis’ product/market fit survey
survey.io

4. Use SurveyMonkey so you can analyze results better
surveymonkey.com

5. Example: We proved that Google Analytics has product/market fit

6. “If you’re above 40% of the people saying
they’d be very disappointed, I tend to say
you’ve found product/market fit, and if
you’re less than that, you haven’t.
SEAN ELLIS

7. The core product/market fit question
★ Segment the rest of the responses with this question
★ Open-ended responses help you understand why
★ Can be asked independently or as part of other survey questions

8. Do you have product/market fit?
★ Nobody really cares about your product!
★ Find insights from very disappointed & somewhat disappointed responses
★ Go back to the drawing board to try something different

9. Do you have product/market fit?
★ Almost there…
★ Figure out the difference in very disappointed & somewhat disappointed responses
★ Product and / or customer segment tweaks can get you there

10. What are alternative solutions to the problem you solve?
★ Learn what people consider as alternatives
★ Helps define your market and opportunity
★ Responses will validate / invalidate your own ideas

11. What’s the benefit of your solution?
★ Discover the core use case(s) for your product
★ Helps inform your value proposition for positioning
★ Turn into multiple choice question for future surveying

12. Do people tell others about your solution?
★ Learn what words people use to describe your product to others
★ Helps assess word of mouth for your product
★ Identify invite and sharing opportunities

13. Who is your solution most valuable to?
★ Learn more about the type of people that will value your product
★ Helps figure out market segmentation
★ The target customer might not be who you are thinking

14. How do you improve your solution?
★ Find out what people want improved
★ Helps with determining future product direction / roadmap
★ Discover things you weren’t thinking of improving

15. Learn from 731 product/market fit
survey responses about Slack:
bit.ly/slackpmfit

16. There are even more ways to assess
product/market fit qualitatively…

17. Net Promoter Score (NPS)
delighted.com

18. Why do people sign up?
qualaroo.com

19. What do they expect from your solution?
intercom.io

20. Why did they buy?
qualaroo.com

21. Why did they visit certain pages?
qualaroo.com

22. Why did they decide to check it out?
qualaroo.com

23. What problems are they trying to solve?
qualaroo.com

24. What other solutions did they consider?
qualaroo.com

25. What frustrates them?
intercom.io

26. Why are they canceling?
lesschurn.io

27. Why are they canceling?
surveymonkey.com

28. Why are they canceling?
surveymonkey.com

29. “
You’ll create the best product if you know more
about customers than your competitors and
you act on that knowledge.
HITEN SHAH

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