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What they really think about you: How to structure and conduct customer\u00a0interviews.<\/strong> To conduct an interview of value, it’s imperative that you prepare accordingly. Tien Anh Nguyen reminds us that<\/a> you need to know the types of questions you’ll be asking, how to validate the interviewee and how to structure your time.<\/p>\n

Turning info into insights with the Customer Interview Pyramid.<\/strong> Once you have completed the interview, how do you effectively communicate the findings to your team and higher-ups? At Atlassian, Sherif Mansour uses a\u00a0framework<\/a> that structures the process of observing what the interviewee is saying, interpreting the problems that they are suffering and, ultimately, connecting these with opportunities for the business.<\/p>\n

Customer Development\/Problem Interviewing.<\/strong> Customer development is a numbers game — the more people you speak with, the clearer it is to identify trends and insights. For her startup, Julia Lazaro\u00a0performed more than 60 interviews<\/a> and has valuable techniques to share on how to conduct them.<\/p>\n

Why you are asking the wrong customer interview questions.<\/strong> Teresa Torres has found<\/a> that people are often very quick to share what their priority is when choosing to buy something. But, on further questioning, it’s revealed that there are other priorities that are actually more important to them. So when conducting customer interviews we must pose questions carefully so as not to be fooled by a person’s\u00a0own deceptions of themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What they really think about you: How to structure and conduct customer\u00a0interviews. To conduct an interview of value, it’s imperative that you prepare accordingly. Tien Anh Nguyen reminds us that you need to know the types of questions you’ll be asking, how to validate the interviewee and how to structure your time. 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