Sherrie Nguyen (she/her)

AMA: Indeed Director of Product Marketing, Sherrie Nguyen on Customer Research

July 28 @ 9:00AM PT
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Sherrie Nguyen (she/her)
Indeed Director of Product Marketing3y
I first start with really solid positioning, which should clearly identify how your offering is differentiated from other competitors in the market and lean into that. Se...
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Sherrie Nguyen (she/her)
Indeed Director of Product Marketing3y
At Indeed, we segment employers by small, mid-sized, and enterprise, and we also look at specific industries/verticals that make up a bulk of our users. We also do this f...
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Sherrie Nguyen (she/her)
Indeed Director of Product Marketing3y
I'd say, start asking questions, especially of the leaders and sales team. Depending on the answers, you may have a really good start to building some personas already. O...
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How have you historically sourced people to interview while developing personas?
Especially if you don't have any customers that fit the bill my current plan is to assemble a list of possible titles and have my virtual assistant company prospect for and find contact details for them then probably send out a survey to validate if they're the right people to talk to and reach out individually to the ones that fit the bill.
Sherrie Nguyen (she/her)
Indeed Director of Product Marketing3y
This is a great approach. It's best if you get as specific as possible to identify prospects (ie. country, company size, verticle/industry, job title) and get clear on wh...
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Sherrie Nguyen (she/her)
Indeed Director of Product Marketing3y
Such a wonderful question. I'm a big proponent of doing this. First, identify your target market and job titles of your target buyer. Then interview them to get a good un...
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Sherrie Nguyen (she/her)
Indeed Director of Product Marketing3y
Always aim for as many personas as you encounter, but see above for my explanation on identifying a target segment and then choosing the personas you want to go after. It...
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Sherrie Nguyen (she/her)
Indeed Director of Product Marketing3y
I work with market researchers to understand higher level problems, use cases, personas, customer journeys, brand consideration, preference, trust, etc. for my company an...
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Sherrie Nguyen (she/her)
Indeed Director of Product Marketing3y
I love this question. I've done this in a really scrappy way at a start-up and then approached this with significant budgets at a larger company. The scrappy way was to i...
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How do you map and orchestrate a b2b buyer journey, from learning to buying?
We're currently revisiting our content strategy here at Resultados Digitais, and some help on the subject would be very valuable. Our main challenges include: - Finding which types of of subject/content/format/channel work better, and in which stage of the journey; and - Understand how far should we go on segmenting and personalizing our strategy, and under which axis (demographics, persona, etc);
Sherrie Nguyen (she/her)
Indeed Director of Product Marketing3y
Great question! You actually squeezed 3 topics in here, which are all inter-related and important to buyer journey maps. In my experience, I start with segmenting my audi...
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Sherrie Nguyen (she/her)
Indeed Director of Product Marketing3y
You can make the case on paper, but you can also spin up an MVP to affirm the value of a VOC program. 1. In my previous experience, I gained buy-in by outlining all the w...
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Sherrie Nguyen (she/her)
Indeed Director of Product Marketing3y
As a leader for Indeed's Parents and Caregivers Inclusion Resource Group, I have to talk about this topic! There are a couple ways to approach this. 1. Add self-identify...
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