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AMA: Etsy Global Head of Product Marketing, Maureen Sitterson on Messaging


October 25, 2023 @ 11:00AM PT

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Maureen Sitterson

Senior Director, Seller Growth & Retention · Etsy

Hi all, I'm Maureen Sitterson, Senior Director of Seller Growth & Retention at Etsy

👋 Based in:
Atlanta, GA
🧠 Top of mind:
Ensuring my team is set up for success with clear goals and a plan for 2026
💬 Ask me about:
Product Marketing, 2-sided marketplaces, B2B Marketing.
🍦 Fun fact:
When I was growing up my dream was to be in the WNBA
  1. What are your favourite brands who have their product marketing right? On similar lines, who are the best PMM leaders in this space you admire?

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    Maureen Sitterson

    Etsy Senior Director, Seller Growth & Retention • 2y

    One of my favorite brands' marketing is Reformation. They lead their marketing with the sustainability of their products and they do it in such a bold way that it immediately grabs your attention. Their marketing is clear, provocative, and consistent - you always know without a doubt who and what they stand for. Their tone also evokes a sense of personalization at scale - it feels like they truly know their customers and are talking directly to them in a way that shows that. In terms of Product ...Read More

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  2. How important is to identify the impact of your messaging?

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    Maureen Sitterson

    Etsy Senior Director, Seller Growth & Retention • 2y

    Identifying the impact of your messaging is critical to determining whether your GTM strategy, and specifically your value props and messaging, were successful. That being said, it can be challenging to isolate the impact of messaging. In order to effectively isolate how a particular message performed, we often do an A/B test between 2 different messages and assess the impact of each. Once you have results from the test, you can incorporate messaging results into future marketing.

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  3. How do you get internal teams to adopt new messaging?

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    Maureen Sitterson

    Etsy Senior Director, Seller Growth & Retention • 2y

    Leaning on research and data to project the impact of new messaging and show internal teams why it will matter to customers is most effective. This could come in many formats - showing the potential size of the business opportunity or showing how customers are currently responding to messaging are a few different ways that can help others clearly see your point of view and why you believe a change is necessary. Without a clear articulation of the "why" behind what you're proposing, it's much mor ...Read More

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  4. How often do you re-iterate on messaging and why do you do it at this interval?

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    Maureen Sitterson

    Etsy Senior Director, Seller Growth & Retention • 2y

    I don't have a specific formula for re-iterating on messaging, because I firmly believe that it's important to critically evaluate messaging through multiple lenses with several stakeholders throughout the messaging development process. Landing a strong brief and aligning on it with all key stakeholders as the foundation is the first and most important step - that way, you can challenge whether the messaging is aligned to the brief throughout the development and revision phases. Without a strong ...Read More

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  5. How do you deal with big and conflicting opinions from key stakeholders on your messaging?

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    Maureen Sitterson

    Etsy Senior Director, Seller Growth & Retention • 2y

    This happens a lot as a Product Marketer! While it's great to take multiple stakeholders opinions into account, product marketers have a unique vantage point in their organization that enables them to see the broader company context in a way that not all teams have access to. To manage conflicting opinions, I like to ground teams in what we're communicating, why we're communicating it, and the outcome we want to drive. Usually grounding conflicting voices in those 3 things - and aligning togethe ...Read More

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  6. What are ways to personalize messaging other than segmentation of customer groups?

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    Maureen Sitterson

    Etsy Senior Director, Seller Growth & Retention • 2y

    We've seen success with data - driven personalization. Beyond customer segmentation, for marketing to small business or business customers, helping to provide them with insights and data-driven recommendations for how to grow their business is one of the most engaging messages that we can deliver. I've also found that showing a customer what they could have earned or saved by using a specific product feature you can use opportunistic / "FOMO" - like messaging to drive product/feature adoption an ...Read More

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