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As a b2c product marketer, how best move into SAAS industry/b2b?

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  1. Suyog Deshpande
    Suyog Deshpande

    Samsara Former Sr. Director | Head Of Product & Partner Marketing • 6y

    You already are a marketer, which is a good starting point. Key differences:  In B2C, you are focused on users. In B2B, you also need to think about accounts: That means you are moving from a “a buyer” to “ a committee of buyers” for your product. That means additional personas, objections, processes and challenge.  In B2C, marketing could directly result in revenue. In B2B, you will have a sophisticated sales team to generate revenue.  In B2C, sales cycles can be short. In B2B, they typically t ...Read More

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  2. Melinda Chung
    Melinda Chung

    Credit Karma Senior Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Adobe, GoDaddy, VSCO, 3x startups • 4y

    People often say that you can get into organizations by either function or domain. If you haven’t been in SaaS before, get into a SaaS company through your functional expertise - product marketing.

    I would recommend moving into a SaaS company that does both B2C and B2B. You have the product marketing functional expertise to land in B2C there, and then you can network and move into a B2B function from there.

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