Christine Sotelo-Dag

AMA: ThoughtSpot Senior Director of Product Marketing, Christine Sotelo-Dag on Messaging

April 18 @ 11:00AM PT
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Christine Sotelo-Dag
Close Head of Product Marketing2y
This likely differs based on how your company and teams are structured. In my experience PMM. creates messaging with the input of key stakeholders such as product. Howeve...
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Christine Sotelo-Dag
Close Head of Product Marketing2y
This definitely depends on your business, strategy, industry etc. In my past experience the more macro level messaging like Company or Platform messaging is iterated on l...
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Christine Sotelo-Dag
Close Head of Product Marketing2y
Value props are directly linked to customer pain. If you truly understand the pain you are solving for (through customer, prospect and market research) then you can take ...
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What are the best practices that you have employed to create a closed-loop product messaging?
Messaging that is not just in one silo of the org. but goes through demand gen. campaigns and ISR/SDR pitches. Gather feedback from MQL, SQL's and pipeline generated from that messaging and finally use those insights to appropriately tweak the messaging.
Christine Sotelo-Dag
Close Head of Product Marketing2y
Creating a closed-loop messaging program / projects largely sits in how you set these programs and projects up. When I've done Company / Platform messaging creation or up...
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Christine Sotelo-Dag
Close Head of Product Marketing2y
The best way to mitigate this risk (and this is a very common risk) is to stand up messaging projects as a formal project. This means: There is a clear project plan that ...
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What messaging framework do you use?
Would love frameworks to share.
Christine Sotelo-Dag
Close Head of Product Marketing2y
This changes slightly based on whether this is Company Messaging, Platform Messaging, Product or Feature Messaging, but my frameworks usually contain a mix of the followi...
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Christine Sotelo-Dag
Close Head of Product Marketing2y
Research! Basic messaging is usually written quickly, based on what is believed to be true or what a business wants customers to know about their company and product. Mes...
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Christine Sotelo-Dag
Close Head of Product Marketing2y
There are a few parts that go into this at the foundational level, that I think help when doing the tactical writing for gap closing features. Prior to writing any code, ...
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Christine Sotelo-Dag
Close Head of Product Marketing2y
While I was working at Intercom under Matt Hodges he recommended our entire team read 'On Writing Well' and I still go back to this book often for tips on good writing. A...
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Christine Sotelo-Dag
Close Head of Product Marketing2y
Message testing is really important and often overlooked, however there are several ways to qualitatively test your messaging that are rather easy to implement. A/B Testi...
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Christine Sotelo-Dag
Close Head of Product Marketing2y
This is not an easy problem to solve and definitely depends on what tools your company uses. In the past we've used Coda or Notion when those were the tools our entire co...
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Christine Sotelo-Dag
Close Head of Product Marketing2y
I love this question and I'm a huge fan of JTBD again from my time at Intercom where this was a huge part of how we build and marketed our products. This actually needs t...
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Christine Sotelo-Dag
Close Head of Product Marketing2y
Quantitive metrics (see above answered questions) such as A/B testing, Website data, etc. Combined with Qualitative feedback: Sales feedback Customer feedback Analysts fe...
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