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How do you create and launch a successful subscription model in the climate created by Covid-19?   Retention, Retention, Retention. In this episode of Pragmatic Live, our very own Diane Pierson, Pragmatic Institute instructor, is joined by Kathleen Greenler Sexton, CEO and publisher of Subscription Insider, to discuss what organizations need to know in order to create a thriving subscription model.

* The episode of Pragmatic Live was captured during our recent Product Chat series.  Join us each and every Tuesday for new and relevant topics delivered live. We are all experiencing new challenges professionally during this unprecedented time, but the question remains, how do you conduct market research while operating within this new "normal"? In this episode of Pragmatic Live, Paul Young and Amy Grant, Pragmatic Institute instructors, join Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing for Pragmatic Institute, to discuss how to effectively conduct market research during a time of social distancing under the (NIHITO) principle.

With the approaching launch of the anticipated Pragmatic Alumni Community or (PAC), we check in with the architect of the PAC, Georgina Cannie, and our own VP of marketing, Rebecca Kalogeris; As they discuss what to expect when you first join the PAC and how community founders and ambassadors are already building one of the best online communities around.  

*This episode was recorded during our recent live webinar. During this unprecedented global event, we are seeing varied responses from organizations both in product and service sectors. How do you achieve a fast, go-to-market response in this situation? Well on this episode of Pragmatic Live, our very own Diane Pierson, Pragmatic Institute instructor, is joined by Gretchen Hover, co-founder and managing partner of Imbue Partners, to discuss challenges that the life sciences sector is experiencing during this crisis and possible solutions.  Every week we are hosting live AMA's, and other great content to keep you up to date.  Be sure to tune in! For more information visit pragmaticinstitute.com or visit our social channels.

*This episode was recorded during our recent live AMA. We love connecting with the product community, so recently we had our inaugural, live AMA. On this episode of Pragmatic Live, our very own Paul Young, Pragmatic Institute instructor, joins Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing for Pragmatic Institute to discuss all things product and answers guest questions live. Join us each Friday for additional live (ask me anything) sessions. You can get more information by visiting our social channels or pragmaticinstitute.com.

How do you effectively implement a portfolio based messaging strategy?  On this episode of Pragmatic Live, Div Manickam, director of portfolio messaging at Dell Boomi, joins Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing for Pragmatic Institute to discuss Dell Boomi's journey into implementation of their portfolio messaging and the challenges encountered along the way.

How do you use your product to more effectively reach the end user?  Do free trials really work?  On this episode of Pragmatic Live, Kyle Poyar, VP of market strategy for OpenView, joins Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing for Pragmatic Institute to answer these questions as well as sharing his 4 steps to effectively implement a product lead growth strategy.

DAZN is one of the largest, fastest-growing global sports streaming services on the market and behind that success is many hardworking teams all over the globe. In this episode of Pragmatic Live, Johnathan Lucky, scrum master and all around product guru, joins Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing for Pragmatic Institute, to discuss how he brings global teams together and strategies to deal with the challenges that arise when doing so.      

Ever wondered how Facebook approaches product marketing? We did too, that's why on this episode of Pragmatic Live, Aneri Shah, product marketing manager for Facebook, joins Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing for Pragmatic Institute. Aneri discusses her approach to product marketing and the methods she uses to drive success for the most dominant force in social media.

Do you have product marketers in your organization? Do you know what they do from day to day? Josh Gosliner, senior director of market strategy at Juvo, joins Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing for Pragmatic Institute, in this episode of the Pragmatic Live podcast to dive into just this - what product marketing is, what a product marketer does, and why it’s important to your organization.   

Have you made the decision to love your customers? Do they trust you?  In this episode of the Pragmatic Live podcast Rebecca Kalogeris chats with Tom Noser, founder and president of Fortune's Path. Tom details how to build an honest and trusting relationship with your customers so they keep coming back.

So how do you implement what you’ve learned in Pragmatic training into your organization?In this episode of Pragmatic Live, Pragmatic’s Rebecca Kalogeris explores this question with Stacey Weber and Charles Topping, co-founders of Market-Driven Business and our partners for our new Pragmatic Labs.  Rebecca, Stacey and Charles share their experiences implementing the Pragmatic Framework, and detail how the new Pragmatic Labs can help organizations quickly leverage lessons learned in our courses through repeatable, facilitated experiences.

Did you know that there is a professional degree in Product Management?  In this episode of the Pragmatic Live podcast Rebecca Kalogeris chats with Greg Coticchia, head of Carnegie Mellon’s Product Management program. Greg details how the program prepares the next generation of product managers and broadens the talent pool for this essential profession. Make sure you check out this podcast with Greg Cotichia on Carnegie Mellon’s Product Management degree, and sign up for one of our many Product Marketing courses to learn more about data science and how it can help your business. Subscribe today so you never miss out on any of our great resources.

Here at Pragmatic Institute, we're hard at work to bring new and exciting offerings to, well, you. There's a larger vision in place as Pragmatic continues to evolve to better accommodate our customers, and there is one woman who is perfect to detail these changes. Pragmatic Institute's courseware designer, Eddie Gordon is joined by our very own VP of marketing, Rebecca Kalogeris, to discuss the future of Pragmatic Institute and how we will further help our customers improve their product, their company and their careers.  

This week Rebecca Kalogeris is joined by Jen Haskell, Director of Sales Training and Enablement at Monotype to discuss Sales Enablement teams and her tips and tricks for their success.  Why is Sales Enablement considered the key to being the ultimate psychologist? Listen in for Jen’s approach to gaining credibility, making personal connections and how to nurture each relationship with all of your sales reps. From looking at things from a psychological point of view to the difference in empathy and sympathy, this episode covers behaviors, results and what it is that really drives performance.

What does neuroscience and selfies have in common?  They help create "fandom". Join us for this episode of our Pragmatic Live Podcast to address just this, and what it means to build and keep fans. Our own Rebecca Kalogeris is joined by David Meerman Scott, to discuss his recent book, Fanocracy: How to turn fans into customers and customers into fans, to address more than just proximity, but how you can empower your fans to help you grow. We chat with David to understand what Fanocracy is, how it can be utilized and how we can tap into our existing fandom. 

Is knowledge data, and data knowledge? David Linthicum, Chief Cloud Strategy Officer at Deloitte Consulting says yes.  “Knowledge is the ability to look at massive amounts of information, discern patterns within information, and the ability to deduce things that are occurring within those massive amounts of information” states David in this Pragmatic Live podcast.  Pragmatic Institute’s very own Michael Li, president of data sciences, is joined by David to discuss data and its role in enterprises. From obstacles that companies face in embracing data-driven products, to insights on how to deal with living in a flat data culture, David speaks on his experience in the industry and provides a great metaphor for the data-driven experience. Listen in for David’s advice on training, data and how to utilize failure as a means to continue to push forward.

“The roadmap really should be a conversation” - Jim Semick, founder and chief strategist of Product Plan.  Are you curious what the best framework is to plan and prioritize a product roadmap? Are you a Product Manager that wonders how often to update this tool? Listen in as Rebecca Kalogeris is joined by Jim Semick to discuss Product Plan’s annual survey results, his tried and true method of ‘value vs effort’ and his advice on updating and maintaining roadmaps that work.  Jim explains that updating roadmaps often keeps the product conversation open, and that for how many hours product managers spend managing the roadmap each week that it’s important to share them with their teams frequently so there’s a level of transparency and understanding when something changes. Roadmaps are embodiment of strategy, building the roadmaps are a part of how you define and share that strategy across the organization.

So what really happens in an online community? Real conversations from your peers. Thought-provoking questions. A place to meet product people like you and find a sense of belonging in a very diverse industry.  You’ll find all of that and more in Pragmatic Institute’s new online community. Listen in as Pragmatic community manager Georgina Cannie joins Rebecca Kalogeris to tell us why this dedicated online space is going to keep the learning going long after class has ended.  See what kind of resources, tools and templates are going to be available to help you further your understanding of what you learned in class. This new community space will help alumni share their backgrounds, expertise, knowledge and passion with each other. Listen in to see what other great things are in store for this exciting new community. 

Listen in as Kelli Lapointe is joined by Roger Magoulas, VP of Radar at O’Reilly to share stories, laughs and expectations of the AI conference. From technology adoption to the way the conference came to be, Roger addresses some big ideas and shares how a paper he wrote in tandem with Ben Lorica back in 2008 inspired the conference that it is today.  Both Ben and Roger knew that something was going on in the realm of sophisticated analytics and took the chance at diving in deeper. After starting the conference and realizing machine learning was incredibly important they learned how to integrate this new-found methodology across applications and operations. Roger shares stories and experiences from O’Reilly’s AI conference and describes the learning taking place as deep and fundamental and explains how this social learning environment goes beyond the topics presented during the conference, but really allows attendees to absorb information from all around them. Learn more about this great social network and h