Akshay Kerkar

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.
Akshay Kerkar
LaunchDarkly Vice President Product Marketing4y
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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Akshay Kerkar
LaunchDarkly Vice President Product Marketing4y
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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Akshay Kerkar
LaunchDarkly Vice President Product Marketing4y
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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Akshay Kerkar
LaunchDarkly Vice President Product Marketing4y
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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Akshay Kerkar
LaunchDarkly Vice President Product Marketing4y
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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Akshay Kerkar
LaunchDarkly Vice President Product Marketing4y
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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Akshay Kerkar
LaunchDarkly Vice President Product Marketing4y
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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Akshay Kerkar
LaunchDarkly Vice President Product Marketing4y
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?
Akshay Kerkar
LaunchDarkly Vice President Product Marketing4y
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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