AMA: Attentive VP, Product Marketing, Greg Gsell on Competitive Positioning
March 23 @ 9:00AM PT
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Datadog VP, Product Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, Attentive • 3y
I try to use the Pyramid approach to all content. Start with just absolute essential information, then expand. This way sales reps are able to capture the exact right amo...
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Datadog VP, Product Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, Attentive • 3y
I think there are a couple of different docs that I would use, depending on the audience (internal, external) and the competitor (are you ahead, behind) INTERNAL resourc...
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How do you obtain competitive intelligence on a competitor's product that has very little public-facing marketing around it?
I'm about to just call and ask them if they still sell it.
Datadog VP, Product Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, Attentive • 3y
Call them! It is all fair game. Going deep on youtube and searching their exec team is also a great resource. Odds are even if they don't have public content, the CEO has...
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Datadog VP, Product Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, Attentive • 3y
You have to pick something to focus on. Find whatever edge you can and make it seem like the biggest deal in the world. You can also talk about the sum of the parts as ...
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What constitutes a competitor, and what is the goal you have in mind when you conduct competitor analysis?
What is your philosophy when it comes to competitors?
Datadog VP, Product Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, Attentive • 3y
'I think a competitor is anyone who is in or adjacent to your space. Said another way, a competitor is a vendor that can cause confusion or slow down your sales cycle for...
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Datadog VP, Product Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, Attentive • 3y
Competitive positioning and messaging have to be one and the same. When you look at your decks and positioning, you need to do the gut check of "can my competitors say th...
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Datadog VP, Product Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, Attentive • 3y
I will answer this question the total opposite way that you asked it based on something I saw this morning. I was making my son a bagel with cream cheese. The cream chees...
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Datadog VP, Product Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, Attentive • 3y
I have worked at two different companies and we approached it entirely differently. At the first company, we were far and away the market leader and defined the space. ...
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