Bob Williams

Customer surveys as voice of the customer

February 7th, 2011 | Leave a comment | Tags: , , ,

Using online surveys to talk to your eCommerce customers can be a rewarding as well as painful experience. Painful in the sense that customers will tell you your weaknesses or where your site falls short of their expectations. Yet isn’t that a reward as well?

There are an abundance of online survey tool options available today. The tools make it easy to create, deploy, and analyze results. Yet the value for eCommerce product owners is opening the door to hear the voice of the customer. This concept is so import that customer surveys are a product owner responsibility on the eCommerce organization mind map.

Getting results real-time brings more attention …Continue reading >>

Bob Williams

Learnings and Takeaways from Product Camp Atlanta 2010

February 10th, 2010 | Leave a comment | Tags: , , , ,

I attended Product Camp Atlanta last weekend hosted at the Georgia Tech Research Institute Conference Center. It was my first product camp, so the only knowledge of format and content I had going in was from the description on the web site. The topics of the conference focused on product management and marketing which are the two primary areas of my career experience and interests.

Overall I was pleased with my decision to go to the all-day camp. Time was given to the sponsors to introduce themselves since they provided the financial backing to make the event possible. However, it was very non-intrusive to the day and didn’t come off …Continue reading >>