John Withers

AMA: New Relic Director, Product Marketing, John Withers on Messaging

June 19 @ 10:00AM PT
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John Withers
Atlassian Head of Product Marketing, Bitbucket1y
I’m going to split my answer into two parts, using the following (loose) definitions:Positioning: An internal-only description of what the product is, who it’s for, the p...
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John Withers
Atlassian Head of Product Marketing, Bitbucket1y
Your messaging should show up everywhere, including within any of the following marketing tactics you may choose to employ:InternalInternal announcements (eg, Slack, othe...
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John Withers
Atlassian Head of Product Marketing, Bitbucket1y
It depends. But first, let’s align on the purpose behind all of this work: We want to drive conversion, simple as that. And by conversion, I mean: We want users (or buyer...
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How to develop messaging for a mature company entering a new market with a huge brand recall vs a new company?
How would you approach the two different scenarios? Is there difference in the messaging frameworks that you'd use to ideate, evaluate and promote messaging within organizations? How would you go about it and what would be your exact approach?
John Withers
Atlassian Head of Product Marketing, Bitbucket1y
I’m going to expand my answer to include the entire GTM strategy as well as the product strategy itself. For a mature company, I can think of at least a couple of scenari...
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John Withers
Atlassian Head of Product Marketing, Bitbucket1y
PR and AR are really important GTM channels, and having strong leaders/ICs in both of those functions is crucial to reaching customers and prospects with the right messag...
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When crafting B2B messaging, what is your approach for mixing functional vs emotional benefits and why?
How do you leverage the emotional, personal benefits for the B2B buyer knowing that they also have to sell the product internally based on rational, company benefits?
John Withers
Atlassian Head of Product Marketing, Bitbucket1y
First, let’s start with the following premise: Behavioral science tells us that the vast majority of decisions are made using emotional factors (Customer Brand Preference...
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John Withers
Atlassian Head of Product Marketing, Bitbucket1y
Broadly speaking, as it relates to messaging adoption, there are two categories of stakeholders: Sales and everyone else.Let’s start with “everyone else,” which is far si...
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