AMA: Bolt Director of Product Marketing, Kate Sheridan on Category Creation
August 24 @ 10:00AM PT
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Naming is important! Ideally your category is established enough that there are industry terms that you can use. That way you're building brand equity for your brand name...
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Upgrade, Director of Product Marketing • 3y
It's important that everyone who works at your company understands your value propositions and differentiators. At Salesforce we did a corporate messaging certification o...
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How much effort is it to market products that create new categories? As in time and touches vs. existing products.
Or in other words, what is the education/definition effort vs. competitive differentiation effort in a known category
Upgrade, Director of Product Marketing • 3y
This comparison reminds me of retailers marketing to new vs. existing shoppers. It's 5 times more expensive to acquire a new customer compared to getting an existing cust...
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Upgrade, Director of Product Marketing • 3y
If you're building demand for a new category, it's ideal that there's runway for a platform and not just a handful of features. Can you start in one area that you're uniq...
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Awareness and the top of the funnel are key. With a new category, you'll need to make prospects aware of the problem you're solving and convince them that this is a prob...
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