Mike Berger

AMA: ClickUp Former Vice President Product Marketing, Mike Berger on Messaging

December 20 @ 9:00AM PT
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Mike Berger
Ex-VP, Product Marketing @ ClickUp, SurveyMonkey, Gainsight, Marketo | Formerly Momentive, Gainsight, Marketo3y
The ultimate goal of marketing is to influence a purchase decision, or decisions. Most purchases are emotional in nature, and many people think about B2C when they think ...
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Mike Berger
Ex-VP, Product Marketing @ ClickUp, SurveyMonkey, Gainsight, Marketo | Formerly Momentive, Gainsight, Marketo3y
You can create a category either way, but either way it isn't easy! Gainsight is a great example of a company that created a category by building a platform for, and cha...
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Mike Berger
Ex-VP, Product Marketing @ ClickUp, SurveyMonkey, Gainsight, Marketo | Formerly Momentive, Gainsight, Marketo3y
I would say there are 5 tips I'd have for getting buy-in from cross-functional partners on messaging and positioning: Before presenting the messaging, be clear with the ...
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Mike Berger
Ex-VP, Product Marketing @ ClickUp, SurveyMonkey, Gainsight, Marketo | Formerly Momentive, Gainsight, Marketo3y
Experimentation is a key driver of messaging improvement. It's relatively inexpensive to test messaging through ads, which can get you a quick read on which messages reso...
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Mike Berger
Ex-VP, Product Marketing @ ClickUp, SurveyMonkey, Gainsight, Marketo | Formerly Momentive, Gainsight, Marketo3y
The short answer here is that surveys are probably the most efficient way to validate messaging with customers. It's quick and inexpensive, and can get you a quick read o...
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Mike Berger
Ex-VP, Product Marketing @ ClickUp, SurveyMonkey, Gainsight, Marketo | Formerly Momentive, Gainsight, Marketo3y
Someone once said that the best messaging joins the conversations already happening in your prospects' heads. Or something to that effect. With that in mind, I always sta...
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Mike Berger
Ex-VP, Product Marketing @ ClickUp, SurveyMonkey, Gainsight, Marketo | Formerly Momentive, Gainsight, Marketo3y
First thing I do is determine how much a buyer cares about individual features. There is a saying that we go to Home Depot to buy a hole (benefit), not a shovel (feature)...
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