Daniel J. Murphy

AMA: Privy VP of Marketing, Daniel J. Murphy on Product Launches

September 22 @ 10:00AM PT
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Daniel J. Murphy
Marketing Strategy Consultant5y
1) Waiting for something new from the product team to launch vs. designing a launch around a strategic company goal 2) Going to market with messaging that matches what t...
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Daniel J. Murphy
Marketing Strategy Consultant5y
The #1 thing is listening to customer calls. Or beta calls if you have someone selling the product before the launch. We use Gong.io for that. This is where I get most ...
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Daniel J. Murphy
Marketing Strategy Consultant5y
First of all, don't try to prevent the short term spike! that's why you launch, to drive attention and focus for one thing in the short term. But how to get long term r...
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Daniel J. Murphy
Marketing Strategy Consultant5y
Building an audience. It's hard when your company is new and people don't know what you're about, why they should care and often very little credibility. Best way to comb...
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In your eyes, what's product marketing's role in the launch? What's key to ensure it's smooth?
What are the key deliverables PMM provides? What gets handed off to other teams to run with and create?
Daniel J. Murphy
Marketing Strategy Consultant5y
I've heard it described a few different ways: product marketer is the CEO of the launch, since you have to wear so many hats preparding for a launch, or you're the quarte...
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Daniel J. Murphy
Marketing Strategy Consultant5y
Slack, wiki and weekly meetings. There's no one tool. But the approach is overcommunicate everything. Repeat information, go through a launch plan twice a week with the...
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Daniel J. Murphy
Marketing Strategy Consultant5y
You shouldn't be working on a product launch without a launch goal already set in place. Launches should be either: 1) focused on helping hit a strategic company goal 2...
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Daniel J. Murphy
Marketing Strategy Consultant5y
Great question. I actually answered a similar quesiton above, here it is: First of all, don't try to prevent the short term spike! that's why you launch, to drive att...
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Daniel J. Murphy
Marketing Strategy Consultant5y
This is not a great answer but the best approach for enablement is overcommunicating. Taking every opportunity to pitch the launch: why it will make sales more money, why...
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Daniel J. Murphy
Marketing Strategy Consultant5y
Depends on your business model. If you're in SaaS and selling monthly contracts, do more launches regularly to keep your customer engaged "look at this new thing we just ...
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How does Product Marketing get involved with alliances, partnerships and marketing the integrations of a product with another product?
Does that role change if your alliance/integration partner is larger/better-known than yours is?
Daniel J. Murphy
Marketing Strategy Consultant5y
Yes, 100%. That can be it's own role on a product marketing team, especially if you are building a platform and have a large partership ecosystem. Marketing tech is a goo...
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Daniel J. Murphy
Marketing Strategy Consultant5y
It's all about the process. Don't start with "we have something to launch and here's all the stuff we're going to do for this launch and NOW let's set a launch goal." Ins...
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