Lauren Craigie

AMA: Cortex Head of Product Marketing, Lauren Craigie on Go-To-Market Strategy

December 14 @ 10:00AM PT
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Lauren Craigie
Inngest Head of Marketing2y
If there’s alignment on the ICP you’ve helped codify — alignment both where you win today and where you want to win tomorrow — it’s significantly easier to influence prod...
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Lauren Craigie
Inngest Head of Marketing2y
What a cool question! And project for you to undertake! I think the good news is that if your market research, audience focus, and messaging framework were as robust as y...
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Lauren Craigie
Inngest Head of Marketing2y
Everything comes back to the launch tiering for me. T1-T3. In a nutshell:T1 is revenue-generating or new market opening — you should have a landing page on the website, p...
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Lauren Craigie
Inngest Head of Marketing2y
PRD (I don’t create but it’s vital for me to have so I ensure one exists) Launch plan in a productivity or shared tool, plus a slack channel for all GTM leadsMessaging ho...
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What is the best way to prepare a mock Go-To-Market plan for a product in a very precise and concise way, when asked in an interview?
I usually come across an interview round wherein I am handed the task of preparing a mock GTM plan for a product. I find it pretty vague as expectations vary widely and I am usually confused about what all to include and how to represent. Is there any example?
Lauren Craigie
Inngest Head of Marketing2y
My first advice here is to not accept an interview if you’re being asked to create a full GTM plan for a product they actually plan to ship :)But aside from that, I think...
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Lauren Craigie
Inngest Head of Marketing2y
A few things come to mind—You get the audience wrong. You’ve built something you think will be useful, but your marketing and messaging isn’t tailored to the right audien...
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Lauren Craigie
Inngest Head of Marketing2y
You could consider a weekly or monthly product update email, public running change log, or in-app notifications (or docked changelog) for your current customers.
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Lauren Craigie
Inngest Head of Marketing2y
I think it’s less important to worry about consensus seeking on every step (there should be dozens for every launch regardless of size), and most important to align on 1)...
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Lauren Craigie
Inngest Head of Marketing2y
Good question—there’s always some grey area on lines of responsibility so I’ll add which other teams might own/participate in each phase: Research: can be owned by or wit...
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Lauren Craigie
Inngest Head of Marketing2y
I want to answer this one because I think it’s important to take note of the framing :) The marketing team shouldn’t have to be “convinced” after you’ve already created a...
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