Jameelah Calhoun

AMA: Audible Former Senior Director, Head of Product Marketing, Jameelah Calhoun on Market Research

March 9 @ 10:00AM PT
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Jameelah Calhoun
Eventbrite VP, Global Head of Product Marketing | Formerly Amazon, Ex-Amex5y
Thanks for this awesome question! The great news is that there are many pathways and many skillsets that can lead to a successful career in product marketing. In my case,...
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Jameelah Calhoun
Eventbrite VP, Global Head of Product Marketing | Formerly Amazon, Ex-Amex5y
It's important to take an iterative approach to customer research that spans the product development cycle. No single research study can anticipate and answer every poten...
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Jameelah Calhoun
Eventbrite VP, Global Head of Product Marketing | Formerly Amazon, Ex-Amex5y
Your leadership will be focused on the ROI of the budget and time spent developing personas. The most salient metric for these exercises will be customer acquisition cost...
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Jameelah Calhoun
Eventbrite VP, Global Head of Product Marketing | Formerly Amazon, Ex-Amex5y
I focus on creating a collaborative environment with market research, user research, and analytics teams as they provide critical inputs for product marketing to function...
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Jameelah Calhoun
Eventbrite VP, Global Head of Product Marketing | Formerly Amazon, Ex-Amex5y
Thanks for asking this question. The exercise of defining your competitive set is a critical, but at times under-emphasized aspect of conducting research. There are three...
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Can you share your experience about segmentation and personas definition?
I'm so sure it is so important for good products being focus on an addecuate segmentation or undestand personas, but what do you consider are the steps or the best process for getting a good segmentation?
Jameelah Calhoun
Eventbrite VP, Global Head of Product Marketing | Formerly Amazon, Ex-Amex5y
Segmentations and personas both have a role to play in informing product strategy and targeting for marketing. Defining segments is more of quantitative exercise with a p...
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How do you conduct Marketing Research?
Walk us through the process you use to gain customers insights at Audible and in other organizations
Jameelah Calhoun
Eventbrite VP, Global Head of Product Marketing | Formerly Amazon, Ex-Amex5y
Customer insights are the bedrock of any product marketing function. There are 4 key steps when planning research: 1) knowing your objectives, 2) establishing your hypoth...
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