Harish Peri

AMA: Salesforce Head of Product Marketing - Security, Integrations, Mobile, Harish Peri on Go-to-Market Strategy

April 5 @ 10:00AM PT
View AMA Answers
What is your go to market planning blueprint?
What core elements must it encompass?
Harish Peri
Okta SVP Product Marketing4y
How does your company think of its 'market'? This is essentially a segmentation exercise but sometimes the hardest part. This requires alignment between sales, product...
...Read More
22610 Views
4 requests
Harish Peri
Okta SVP Product Marketing4y
It comes down again to segmentation, target and positioning. How critical is the new release/features to your target segment? Alternatively, it might seem like a small f...
...Read More
2142 Views
3 requests
Harish Peri
Okta SVP Product Marketing4y
Making the assumption here that vertical = industry. Industry definition - which taxonomy are you using. NAICS, SIC, propietary, DUNS, Clearbit? This is important beca...
...Read More
1745 Views
2 requests
Harish Peri
Okta SVP Product Marketing4y
Making assumptions about pricing and not vetting them with sales VERY early in the process Assuming that its a 'handoff' to sales enablement vs in reality its an ongoing...
...Read More
4448 Views
2 requests
Harish Peri
Okta SVP Product Marketing4y
This was a product I helped launch more than a year ago. It was a product that had high market demand and was long overdue for the target buyers. If you reference the q...
...Read More
3054 Views
3 requests
Harish Peri
Okta SVP Product Marketing4y
Success is only as good as the definition of success. So in the early days of the launch you need to have a aligned defintion of what the launch goal is. Market share, ...
...Read More
4032 Views
1 request
Harish Peri
Okta SVP Product Marketing4y
I always come back to the fact that each segment in your GTM plan needs its own launch approach. This is why there's no one-size fits all E.g. if you have a target segm...
...Read More
2539 Views
2 requests