The top 100 free resources to keep everyone organized, streamlined, and on the same page. We broke it down into the top resources targeted to product managers, product marketers, and those for the whole team.
Top free resources for product managers
We’ve got free resources from all different categories depending on how much of that other precious resource you have available: time.
Got something we missed? Let us know about it!
The top courses for product managers
Coursera courses (enroll for free):
- Introduction to Software Product Management
- Software Product Management Specialization
- Brand and Product Management
- Digital Product Management: Modern Fundamentals
Udemy courses (Try the Personal Plan for free):
- Become a Product Manager | Learn the Skills & Get the Job
- Product Management 101
- The Concise Product Management Course
- Master the Product Manager Interview - The Complete Guide
Great Learning’s course on Product Management
Product School’s free Product Management Certifications
The top newsletters for product managers
- Lenny’s Newsletter
- Work in Progress
- Product Managers At Work
- High-Impact Product Management
- Elezea
- Reforge newsletter
- Weekly Product Hits
- Product School’s newsletter
The top podcasts for product managers
- Lenny’s Podcast
- The Product Podcast
- The Product Manager Podcast
- This is Product Management
- Product Hunt Radio
- 100 PM
- Proof to Product
- How I Built This
- Masters of Scale
- Silicon Valley Product Group podcast
- Fearless Product Leadership podcast
The top social media and community resources for product managers
- Product Management Subreddit
- Women in Product Facebook Group
- The Art of Product Management on Quora
- Product Coalition community
- Products That Count community
- LinkedIn groups:
- Slack communities:
- From YouTube:
- Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell
- Project and Production Management - An Overview
- The Art of Product Management with Sachin Rekhi
- How To Crack Product Manager Interview
- 20 Years of Product Management in 25 Minutes by Dave Wascha
- What Are the Basics of a #ProductManager Role by Google PM, Ankit Prasad
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Some resources didn’t fit neatly into one of the other categories, so we put them together here.
- More of Product School’s free resources
- Hacker Noon
- Hubspot’s How To Become a Product Manager: The Definitive Guide
- A Living List Of Product Management Resources You’ll Want To Bookmark
- Let’s talk about Product Management
- How We Got 10 Million Teens to Read Fiction on Their Phones a product origin story
Top free resources for product marketers
Pick and choose the resources that work best for you, depending on the time you have to invest in them.
The top courses for product marketers
- Notion AI for Product Marketers
- Wynter’s Free B2B Messaging Course
- Klue’s Competitive Battlecards Course
- Crayon’s Competitive Intelligence Course
- Appcue’s Product Launches 101
- Search Coursera for free courses on product marketing
The top newsletters for product marketers
The top podcasts for product marketers
- New to Product Marketing
- PMA’s Product Marketing Life
- PMA’s Product Marketing Insider
- Build with Maggie Crowley
- The Product Marketing Experts
- Women in Product Marketing
- Product: Knowledge — the Product Marketing Podcast
- This is Product Marketing
- Getting to Market
- Embracing Erosion
- Thrills and Chills
- Into the Fray: The Competitive Intelligence Podcast
- The Product Marketing AI Podcast
The top social media and community resources for product marketers
LinkedIn groups:
YouTube:
- Productized Conference YouTube channel
- Fearless Product YouTube series hosted by Hope Gurion
Communities, including Slack:
- Healthy Competition Community (free trial)
- PMM Hive Slack Community
Want more?
Here are all of the other resources we found that didn’t fit neatly into one of the other categories.
- Every* Free Resource for Product Marketers
- The Ultimate Guide to Product Marketing in 2023 from Hubspot
- Hubspot’s The Ultimate Product Marketing Go-to-Market Kit [Free Templates]
- Product Marketing Alliance free membership
Top free resources for the whole product team
Some resources weren’t designed with the specifics of being a product marketer or a product manager in mind; they can help either one or the whole product team:
The best books for the whole product team
While we know that books themselves aren’t free, but a library card is! Check these out either in actual book form or as e-books:
- Inspired: How to Create Products Customers Love, Marty Cagan’s product classic
- Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore is another classic product reading recommendation
Speaking of Marty Cagan, check out the Silicon Valley Product Group blog.
Other resources for the whole product team
Harvard Business Review has a video playlist called The Explainer, which includes one on Creating New Products for Emerging Markets.
There’s a LinkedIn group for product managers and marketers to share their hurdles and expertise together: 280 Group: Product Management & Product Marketing.
Mind the Product offers a lot of free resources for product teams:
- Check out their blog, particularly How product marketing managers and product managers can collaborate
- They also offer a YouTube Channel full of free videos
- And a podcast (in case your queue isn’t already overflowing)
And saving the best for last, check out our free resources:
- The Ignition blog, but especially 5 Signs Your Product, Marketing, and Sales Teams Aren’t Aligned (and How to Fix It)
- The Product Marketing Alliance 2023 State of Go-to-Market Report
- Ignition’s free guides for product management, marketing, and more
We hope you found this collection interesting and helpful. Until we can Vulcan mind meld, it’s the best we have.
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