Mandy Schafer

AMA: Miro Group Product Marketing Manager- Enterprise, Mandy Schafer on Enterprise Product Marketing

June 15 @ 10:00AM PT
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Mandy Schafer
Mastercard Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Miro, Dropbox, Demandbase, Autodesk, Oracle,4y
ABM is near and dear to my heart as I was in the middle of the tornado that spun up the term ABM during my time at Demandbase. As the PMM there at the time, we not only d...
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Mandy Schafer
Mastercard Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Miro, Dropbox, Demandbase, Autodesk, Oracle,4y
This happens a lot, and a lot of times it’s because PMM wasn’t established when the company started shipping products and became successful without the help of a PMM func...
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Mandy Schafer
Mastercard Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Miro, Dropbox, Demandbase, Autodesk, Oracle,4y
Enterprise Product marketers really need to be able to understand the long, and complex sales cycles that Enterprise deals take. In addition, they need to understand all ...
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Mandy Schafer
Mastercard Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Miro, Dropbox, Demandbase, Autodesk, Oracle,4y
Great question! I generally look for folks that have a bit more of a technical background or have worked with products that are a bit more technical in nature. Specifica...
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Mandy Schafer
Mastercard Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Miro, Dropbox, Demandbase, Autodesk, Oracle,4y
PMMs are the most important when it comes to being able to simplify what the product has built and clearly describe what it does and why it’s important. Sales teams are c...
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Mandy Schafer
Mastercard Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Miro, Dropbox, Demandbase, Autodesk, Oracle,4y
Create a quiz or set up role playing for your sales team on their understanding of the product features, capabilities and messaging. When you set aside time to observe ho...
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What are good product marketing OKRs?
I would like to know what metrics are used to measure PMM and what does good look like
Mandy Schafer
Mastercard Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Miro, Dropbox, Demandbase, Autodesk, Oracle,4y
In general, product marketing OKRs can become quite vague and hard to measure. However, the product marketing OKRs I’ve seen that are easier to measure are:1) Successful...
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Mandy Schafer
Mastercard Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Miro, Dropbox, Demandbase, Autodesk, Oracle,4y
The best customer testimonials are those where you let the customers talk about their own personal pain points at work, and not have them try to focus on what the company...
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Mandy Schafer
Mastercard Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Miro, Dropbox, Demandbase, Autodesk, Oracle,4y
I'm going to talk about my experience at really early stage companies, at this point, everyone is doing everything, so the priority is to create some strcuture to help ev...
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