How can I use external experience (sales for example) to bring different opinions to the table to gain influence and persuade other teams?
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Vori Head of Product Marketing | Formerly Square, Intuit, Brex, Dandy, Klaviyo, PepsiCo, Heineken, Mondelez • 1y
Leveraging external-facing teams like sales, account management, and CX is one of the best ways to bring diverse opinions to the table and gain influence with other teams...
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ActiveCampaign VP Product Marketing | Formerly Pendo, Demandbase, Conga, SAP • 2y
Getting a variety of feedback from a variety of people is the best thing you can do to influence and persuade teams. I always like to poll multiple teams and different le...
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Self Employed | Formerly HubSpot, HP, early hire @ Automattic (WordPress.com, WordPress VIP) • 7y
I think you need a mix of experiences AND data to transform what might seem like different opinions into persuasive arguments with impact. Experiences provide the conte...
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DocSend Vice President Sales • 7y
Having worked well with Product Marketing in the past (and as a sales leader) sales can be admittedly tough to generate buy-in. However, sales is needy and tends to make ...
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Outtake VP of Marketing | Formerly Cyera, Zscaler, Docker • 6mo
The best example I can think of is actually with analyst relations. Most product-led B2B SaaS companies make the same mistake. They build what THEY want to build, or what...
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