Katharine Gregorio

AMA: Adobe Sr Director Product Marketing, Katie Gregorio on Positioning

November 21 @ 9:00AM PT
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Katharine Gregorio
Adobe Sr Director of Product Marketing, Creative Cloud2y
Positioning is what your company uniquely provides a specific audience in a particular market. As market dynamics change, it needs to be updated, but it should be durabl...
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Katharine Gregorio
Adobe Sr Director of Product Marketing, Creative Cloud2y
Positioning reflects what your company uniquely provides a specific audience in a particular market. It shouldn’t require multiple facets like general and competitive po...
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Katharine Gregorio
Adobe Sr Director of Product Marketing, Creative Cloud2y
Generally there are two elements to this answer. First is that the sales team had qualified the lead with the appropriate discovery questions to ensure that the target fo...
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How does one create a "positioning document?"
Our organization is focusing on a new customer segment and channel. My CMO has asked me to create a "positioning document" that we can share with senior leadership that articulates how we're going to market to this segment. Does anyone have a template or (and NDA-compliant) example document I could use as a model? Just trying to understand what type of information to include and how best to organize it. Thanks!
Katharine Gregorio
Adobe Sr Director of Product Marketing, Creative Cloud2y
Positioning is an internal artifact. Messaging is externally facing and brings this positioning to life in various contexts. I have usually found it very helpful to have...
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Katharine Gregorio
Adobe Sr Director of Product Marketing, Creative Cloud2y
The short answer is it depends. I tend to be pretty anti personas as it often ends up being a fancy exercise no one really uses. What I prefer is to have a matrix that ca...
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Katharine Gregorio
Adobe Sr Director of Product Marketing, Creative Cloud2y
Positioning is what your company uniquely provides a specific audience in a particular market. Pricing and packaging are an output of go to market strategy. If price is a...
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Katharine Gregorio
Adobe Sr Director of Product Marketing, Creative Cloud2y
The BIGGEST mistake companies make with positioning is not including the entire company in the exercise and making it just a marketing exercise. The next mistake I’ve see...
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What do you use or do to get people to buy into your positioning plans and consistently using them?
The product marketers job typically revolves around positioning a product. Sometimes, it can be difficult to align sales, marketing, and product teams around your positioning.
Katharine Gregorio
Adobe Sr Director of Product Marketing, Creative Cloud2y
The way to get people bought into positioning is to make sure that positioning is a cross functional exercise in the beginning. Positioning is not just a marketing or pro...
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