Suyog Deshpande

AMA: Samsara Head of Product Marketing, Suyog Deshpande on Product Marketing KPIs

May 13 @ 10:00AM PT
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What's your best product marketing 30-60-90 day plan to make a big impact?
I'm starting a new job next week! Would love to hear your top tips in general as well as at the director level.
Suyog Deshpande
Samsara Former Sr. Director | Head Of Product & Partner Marketing5y
First 100 days in a job quite important. The First 100 days are your opportunity to ask questions, make some bold moves, build trusted relationships, and set the tone. I ...
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Suyog Deshpande
Samsara Former Sr. Director | Head Of Product & Partner Marketing5y
That's would be a tough problem if you are trying to understand the impact on one deal over a period of 18 months. I would flip this on its head and instead try to focus ...
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Suyog Deshpande
Samsara Former Sr. Director | Head Of Product & Partner Marketing5y
Why split? Make feature adoption a shared metric between PMM and PM teams. This is an important metric for both teams. I would use this metric pre-launch to really unders...
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Suyog Deshpande
Samsara Former Sr. Director | Head Of Product & Partner Marketing5y
Adoption. Adoption. Adoption. PMMs think of launches as the big day. In reality, it's just a milestone if your product's lifecycle. Don't settle on traffic/clicks etc a...
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Suyog Deshpande
Samsara Former Sr. Director | Head Of Product & Partner Marketing5y
A simple answer to this is that as a PMM, you are responsible for product launches and the GTM strategy around those launches. So, you will ultimately own all launch metr...
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Suyog Deshpande
Samsara Former Sr. Director | Head Of Product & Partner Marketing5y
Please add the "why" behind why you chose to take on new initiatives. I often see marketer proposing solutions that are searching for a problem. So, always start with Why...
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What are good product marketing OKRs?
I would like to know what metrics are used to measure PMM and what does good look like
Suyog Deshpande
Samsara Former Sr. Director | Head Of Product & Partner Marketing5y
Product Marketing is about product and sales success so your OKRs should align with company, CMO and product OKRs. However, I think these 3 serve as a good "PMM OKR tem...
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Suyog Deshpande
Samsara Former Sr. Director | Head Of Product & Partner Marketing5y
Learn from the best in the industry. I love the customer marketing from the following companies: 1. Salesforce - unbelievable focus on customers! Look at the trailhead, ...
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