AMA: Gusto Former Head of Product Marketing, Emily Ritter on Product Launches
August 6 @ 10:00AM PT
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How often is too often when it comes to launching a new product feature/enhancement publicly?
Our CMO wants us to do a major product announcement every quarter.
Gorgias Chief Marketing Officer • 6y
It really depends on what stage your company is at, how your customers consume information from your company, your ship cadence, and what you’re trying to accomplish with...
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How do you best structure and leverage beta releases to assist the product team (with iteration, feedback) and Product Marketing (positioning, messaging, enablement, onboarding)?
How do you collect information from users and disseminate between teams? What does an ideal timeline for a beta look like?
Gorgias Chief Marketing Officer • 6y
A bit of an “it depends” answer. Sometimes people use betas for QA: does the feature we built work end-to-end? Other times betas can help you determine if you’ve hit prod...
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Gorgias Chief Marketing Officer • 6y
Great answers all around. Here's what I'd add: * You deliver a product/feature that people actually want* You position your product in a way that gets the right people t...
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Gorgias Chief Marketing Officer • 6y
In a previous role, it had been awhile since the team I was working with had shipped anything. We were heading into the holidays and I was starting to worry about demonst...
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Gorgias Chief Marketing Officer • 6y
The heyday of product launch PR is behind us. Ah, the good ol’ days. ;)These days you need truly innovative product stories and/or proven business impact to get solid cov...
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Gorgias Chief Marketing Officer • 6y
Ultimately you’re working to drive revenue (in one way or another), which comes from feature awareness and/or usage.Revenue is a lagging indicator so your launch plan sho...
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Gorgias Chief Marketing Officer • 6y
It’s a good idea to get super aligned early in the product development lifecycle about what success looks like and what everyone really cares about. Get to know your stak...
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Gorgias Chief Marketing Officer • 6y
* not getting involved in the product development process early enough* not talking to customers directly* not asking “how might this NOT work out” aka a "Pre-Mortem" (an...
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Gorgias Chief Marketing Officer • 6y
Small: tight, thoughtful FAQs. Keep it simple. Prep a concise one-pager that delivers the facts and moves on.Large: think about enablement as a mini bootcamp program rat...
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Gorgias Chief Marketing Officer • 6y
We aspire to do this with absolute excellence -- with rapid A/B testing and optimization. Come join our team!! That being said, here are some observations (I polled folk...
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Gorgias Chief Marketing Officer • 6y
Yes! We have a tiered launch playbook system that enables us to provide transparency to our product management partners about the activities we do depending on the size a...
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Gorgias Chief Marketing Officer • 6y
This is an area we’re looking to get better at. We think that being able to send relevant messages in context, will help us be a guided partner to small businesses as the...
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Gorgias Chief Marketing Officer • 6y
Seek out underrepresented groups, listen to what they’re saying—and not saying—and amplify their voices to be even louder internally. Never stop thinking about your work ...
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