Industry Product Marketing

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Srini Sekaran
Srini Sekaran
Amazon Senior Product ManagerJune 7
Measuring sales success is unique to your organization but you can gauge general effectiveness by understanding the volume of opportunities, conversion rates, and productivity.  Volume of Opportunity Cross-selling, renewals, and upselling are more effective ways of generating revenue than acqu......Read More
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Indy Sen
Indy Sen
Canva Ecosystem Marketing LeaderDecember 21
Great question, and always exciting to be at a juncture where you're considering expanding your GTM to address specific verticals and opportunities. Getting a vertical right is not always easy, but when you have the right structure and offerings, the work across other opportunities is very repeat......Read More
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Yvonne Chow
Yvonne Chow
Zennify Director of Product MarketingOctober 16
Successful multi-channel marketing strategies require careful planning and coordination - here are some thoughts from my experience: During my time at Hootsuite and LinkedIn, I had incredibly talented global marketing colleagues and we often coordinated product, brand messaging, and event laun......Read More
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April Rassa
April Rassa
Aventi Group Product Marketing ConsultantSeptember 28
The biggest thing I see when companies develop a product, service or build a brand, is they get stuck on the “what” of the thing. What the product does? What the company does? This thing. And this thing. And this. And that’s great, but the bigger question is why? Savvy consumers/customers look pa......Read More
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Agustina Sacerdote
Agustina Sacerdote
Square Global Head of PMM and Content Marketing, TIDALMarch 24
I don't actually use market research for that, is the short answer. If we believe that our solution is well suited for a particular vertical, we have the budget to invest in GTM to capture business in this vertical, and the vertical is fragmented / doesn't have a real clear winner, we will go for......Read More
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Kaitlin Yount
Kaitlin Yount
LinkedIn Senior Director of Product Marketing, TrustAugust 25
I’ve been in consumer businesses during my career as a Product Marketing so I can only speak to working with Product. I’ve had a lot of great experiences with Product partners. First and foremost, when starting a new business relationship I find ways to add value before I start offering criticis......Read More
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How do you as a product marketer create brand messaging that appeals to three highly distinct segments?
My company’s product (we’re a marketplace) serves three distinct segments with very different motivations. I’m struggling to create brand messaging that speaks to all three. Any advice on how to approach? Or is this a matter of needing to choose one segment to focus on?
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Diana Smith
Diana Smith
Hashi Senior Director of Product MarketingJuly 16
Messaging that speaks to everyone rarely speaks to anyone well. I’d prioritize your top segment to focus on, make sure your brand messaging resonates with them, and ensure your other customer segments can find messaging for them via pathing on your site or other targeted campaigns. I've seen m......Read More
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Nina Seth
Nina Seth
Blue Yonder Product Marketing DirectorJuly 13
It takes a great relationship between sales and marketing to systematically contact customers. In my experience at small companies, you can much more easily contact customers without sales being the gate-keeper. With easier access to customer lists, you can set goals for customer calls (feedback ......Read More
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Abdul Rastagar
Abdul Rastagar
GTM Leader | Marketing Author | Career CoachMay 7
Data should always inform decisions, though it’s OK to supplement it with some qualitative insights driven by observations of market trends. It’s not good enough to simply let the most senior person define the segmentation. Segmentation is relatively easy if you are focused on one specific vertic......Read More
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Matt Kaufman
Matt Kaufman
Qualia VP of MarketingSeptember 15
Simply put, it's marketing to a niche audience centered around a specific set of needs. Examples include developing a deep focus in industries such as Real Estate, Education, Healthcare, or others. By comparison, a horizontally focused product marketing strategy aims to find how a given product c......Read More
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