As a PMM charged with balancing both self-serve and enterprise customers of the same product, what are the nuances between the two?
Triple Whale 🐳 VP of Marketing | Formerly Klaviyo, Drift, Dropbox, Upwork • 3y
I know this situation well; it's the same here at Klaviyo! First, you need to understand the composition of both audiences. Are the self-serve customers smaller busines...
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Atlassian VP of Product Marketing • 2y
You have a very tall order ahead of you! These two motions aren't nuanced differences -- they are completely different playbooks. Most of my AMA questions are about compa...
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Clockwise Head of Growth Marketing • 4y
Great question—thanks for asking! One thing to get out of the way first: Most products will have both users and buyers and those users and buyers can live across self-se...
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Resolve AI Product Marketing | Formerly Google • 1y
In general, the answer would largely depend if the enterprise customers and self-serve customers are in the same journey. As in, if the self-serve customers are eventuall...
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Pressable Chief Marketing Officer • 2y
These two audiences are VERY different.And it's important to be clear on the difference between audiences and channels. Enterprise merchants often move through a sales le...
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Pomerium Head of Marketing | Formerly Roofstock, Instacart, Uber, Algolia, Google • 5mo
In a lot of cases, they’re the same customer, they just want to buy differently. For example, an individual user who may end up being your internal champion wants to try ...
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SurveyMonkey Senior Director, Head of Corporate Marketing | Formerly SurveyMonkey, Nielsen • 1y
Here are several nuances (generalizations, not hard truths) to consider between self-serve and enterprise customers from a product marketing standpoint: Who they are: ...
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Marketing & GTM Consultant | Formerly ClickUp, Vanta, DreamWorks Animation • 3y
Great question - this is very common in today's PMM landscape. There are 3 main product marketing differences: Target audience Messaging Value prop For self-serve pro...
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