AMA: Atlassian Former Head of Marketing, Cloud Enterprise and Platform, Akshay Kerkar on Pricing and Packaging
August 4 @ 10:00AM PT
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What should I include in my product marketing budget?
I already have things like Customer Visits, a Sales Enablement / Content Management tool, SKO, pricing model consulting.
LaunchDarkly Vice President Product Marketing • 4y
A few other things to consider: Your team's research needs (qual and/or quant) Any analyst-related spent (either for research reports or to engage w/ analysts) Content-...
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LaunchDarkly Vice President Product Marketing • 4y
Pricing is both tough and is not one-and-done - it has to be refreshed over time. While you can use research to figure out initial pricing for launch (see one of my other...
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LaunchDarkly Vice President Product Marketing • 4y
Figuring out the willingness-to-pay (WTP) by conducting research for your product with your target market/buyers is an effective approach. I've mentioned more details in ...
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LaunchDarkly Vice President Product Marketing • 4y
The answer really varies by company - I have seen instances of Product Marketing, Product Management, Finance, Biz Ops, and Sales Strategy teams own pricing. In an ideal...
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LaunchDarkly Vice President Product Marketing • 4y
Hands down the value you deliver. In an ideal world, you figure out the willingness-to-pay (WTP) for your product in the market, and set your price close to the WTP line ...
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LaunchDarkly Vice President Product Marketing • 4y
Your pricing inherently reflects the value of your products, and since competitive comparisons will inevitably come up in deals, you have to translate all your competitiv...
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LaunchDarkly Vice President Product Marketing • 4y
Few things to consider: 1] Your customer comms plan - when are you letting your customers know? Are you giving them a head's up? Are you letting them know why pricing is ...
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LaunchDarkly Vice President Product Marketing • 4y
Single product pricing is (relatively) straightforward. When you go to multiple products, or multiple SKUs of the same product (e.g. a Standard Edition vs. Premium vs. En...
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What have been your key learnings from any "Pricing/Re-pricing launch" that you have led/seen within your company?
Please share your experiences from successful efforts and also the launches that didn't go well. Any tools/templates that worked for your teams?
LaunchDarkly Vice President Product Marketing • 4y
Great question! Pricing is something that's never done, since you'll have to keep updating it over time (as your products evolve, the market evolves, or due to competitiv...
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