Mary Sheehan

AMA: Adobe Head of Lightroom Product Marketing, Mary Sheehan on Market Research

September 13 @ 10:00AM PT
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Mary Sheehan
Adobe Head of Lightroom Product Marketing | Formerly Google, AdRoll8y
Firstly, know that there are ranges of budgets to create buyer personas depedning on if you go with an agency or do them in-house. I’ve worked for a company where we paid...
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Mary Sheehan
Adobe Head of Lightroom Product Marketing | Formerly Google, AdRoll8y
Great question. When creating buyer personas, you’re ideally using data from current, prospective, and churned customers to create archetypes of your buyers. The goal is ...
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Mary Sheehan
Adobe Head of Lightroom Product Marketing | Formerly Google, AdRoll8y
I’ve had the best success with easy to digest “competitive battlecards” for sales. The simpler, the better. They should give basic company info, pricing, and how to handl...
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Mary Sheehan
Adobe Head of Lightroom Product Marketing | Formerly Google, AdRoll8y
I answered this in a similar post - see it here: https://sharebird.com/can-you-outline-the-best-structure-and-format-for-user-personas-that-are-useful-across-the-org
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Mary Sheehan
Adobe Head of Lightroom Product Marketing | Formerly Google, AdRoll8y
Once you’ve interviewed and/ or surveyed your customers, prospects, and churned customers - it’s time to put the personas into a digestible format. I recommend Google sli...
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Mary Sheehan
Adobe Head of Lightroom Product Marketing | Formerly Google, AdRoll8y
Market research on a tight budget, or what I like to call "Scrappy research" - my favorite! First, let me start with a quote - “Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.” M...
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How do you drive culture change with market research?
I'm hoping to influence Product and Design to talk to users more and build a clear picture of our user. The team will often refer to themselves as "the consumer" when they're not in our target demographic?
Mary Sheehan
Adobe Head of Lightroom Product Marketing | Formerly Google, AdRoll8y
Quick answer: Data. Bring them snippets of real customer conversations or data points that they haven't seen from customer interviews, surveys, CSAT, NPS, customer servic...
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