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FREE: User Persona Canva Template

By: Elba Flamenco December 4, 2021

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Stuck on user personas? Try this free user persona Canva template! If you’re at the beginning of the product development process, you’re probably thinking a lot about the types of users that you’ll be targeting with your new product. As a product manager, we’re constantly researching and thinking about the people that use your products. The more specific you can get in the profiling of these customers, the more you can tailor what you’re building to solve their problems and meet their needs.

What Software Tools do Product Managers Need to Learn?

By: Elba Flamenco November 26, 2021

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How technical do I have to be to become a Product Manager? This is one of the most common questions I get from young professionals interested in a career in Product. It’s also one of the biggest factors that prevents individuals (particularly women) from even trying to apply for certain roles. I understand this hesitation completely because nobody wants to be put in a position where they land the job but then have no idea how to do it.

FREE: Kanban Desktop Organizer Wallpaper and Folder Icons

By: Elba Flamenco October 23, 2021

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Perfect for the Scrum Master, Product Manager, or Project Manager in your life! This Scrum Desktop Organizer is a fully customizable Canva template. Change colors, copy, shapes, add your images, and much more! Designed to fit your computer desktop, this organizer has four different columns to organize your files and folders: To-Do, In Progress, Testing, and Done.

Resources for Researching a Pivot to Product Management

By: Elba Flamenco October 2, 2021

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I’ve collected a number of free resources that can give you a basic understanding of the role, as a starting point. This is enough information for you to make a decision on whether you want to continue to pursue Product Management.

How to Edit a PDF for Free

By: Elba Flamenco September 6, 2021

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Most folks use the Pro version of Adobe to do this, but if you’re not on your work computer, you may not have access to expensive licensed software programs to do this. You may not even think about it at all until you’re in a situation where you have to do advanced PDF editing and you realize you have no way to do it!

How to Make a FREE “Link-in-Bio” Page Using WordPress

By: Elba Flamenco August 28, 2021August 29, 2021

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Last week, there was a story making the rounds that link-in-bio company Snipfeed had raised $5.5 million in their seed round. I read the article hoping to understand what these companies are doing that would command such investment and, honestly, I still don’t know. But it got me curious enough to explore alternatives, and along…

FREE: LinkedIn Banner Template

By: Elba Flamenco August 21, 2021September 12, 2021

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gurus, Hollywood agents, and fashion entrepreneurs. A group of people whose livelihoods depended on networking and projecting a certain image of themselves. As someone whose job takes place mostly behind a keyboard or a phone, I never thought I’d have a need for something like that. But as this Ted Talk from Talaya Waller explains, in a competitive job market, your personal branding might be the differentiator between landing that gig and not.