Rekha Srivatsan

AMA: Salesforce VP of Product Marketing, Rekha Srivatsan on SMB Product Marketing

July 27 @ 10:00AM PT
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What can I include in my marketing portfolio to standout from the crowd as a product marketing candidate.
I'm new to Product Marketing. In the interviews that I've done, I am being asked to present a marketing portfolio.
Rekha Srivatsan
Salesforce SVP & CMO, Tableau4y
Welcome to the PMM world! ;) My approach to this would be: Take a closer look at the particular job responsibilities. If the job responsibilities are heavy on content c...
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Rekha Srivatsan
Salesforce SVP & CMO, Tableau4y
You are already one step ahead about narrowing down your next move to product marketing - congratulations! Product marketing roles and responsibilities are different wi...
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What should I include in my product marketing budget?
I already have things like Customer Visits, a Sales Enablement / Content Management tool, SKO, pricing model consulting.
Rekha Srivatsan
Salesforce SVP & CMO, Tableau4y
You have all the right line items! In addition, I'd recommend: Focus groups for messaging/positioning/pricing & packaging: I'm a huge fan of getting feedback from pr...
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Rekha Srivatsan
Salesforce SVP & CMO, Tableau4y
Obviously, the target personas are different which informs the messaging, positioning, pricing, and packaging strategy. But at a high level, in SMB, the user and the dec...
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Rekha Srivatsan
Salesforce SVP & CMO, Tableau4y
Obviously, the target personas are different which informs the messaging, positioning, pricing, and packaging strategy. But at a high level, in SMB, the user and the de...
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Rekha Srivatsan
Salesforce SVP & CMO, Tableau4y
My team is responsible for product messaging & positioning for Salesforce's core solutions for small businesses across our high-growth industries and customer & c...
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Rekha Srivatsan
Salesforce SVP & CMO, Tableau4y
Congratulations on figuring out what you want to do next! Project management skills are invaluable to any function, particularly in PMM. The reason being PMMs are often h...
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How would you approach this product marketing interview assignment?
I interviewed earlier this year and did well except for this assignment. I'm hoping to better prepare for similar situations. Here's the quest: As mentioned, the next part of this process is to complete a brief assignment. The purpose of this assignment is just to see your methodology get some insight into your approach to tasks. For this assignment, I'd like for you to create a high-level go-to-market plan and strategy for our flagship product our event marketing platform. Our company traditionally has targeted enterprise b2b companies. I'd like you to come up with high-level messaging, define who the target audience is, and then detail your strategy for informing the market about our event platform and getting more leads. Please identify which channels you would use, and what you would need for this go-to-market launch. Please keep your response under 2 pages
Rekha Srivatsan
Salesforce SVP & CMO, Tableau4y
Sorry, that didn't work out! Here's how I would approach this assignment: Study Certain's website to understand their current product messaging and positioning. And mak...
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