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How do you approach validating potential new market directions? And multiple market directions your product could take?

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  1. Sonia Moaiery
    Sonia Moaiery

    Skilljar Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Intercom, Glassdoor, Prophet, Kraft • 4y

    Understanding the market landscape and how it breaks down is a good first step. For example, within the broader category of "customer engagement" there are sub categories like marketing and advertising tech, support/enagement channels, call analytics and contact centers and CRM. And then there are even more categories or sub jobs under each (read about the jobs to be done framework if you havent). To help create this 'market map' you can look to industry analysts or the Forrester / Gartner Magic ...Read More

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  2. Lauren Craigie
    Lauren Craigie

    Inngest Head of Marketing • 2y

    I have an answer to this, but also a caution! Caution: Everyone likes to have a slide in their analyst briefing decks that shows all the adjacent markets you’ll eventually conquer. (We have one too so no shade). But I would caution that there’s a difference between building a narrative that gives prospects (and partners and investors) faith that you have a vision—and focusing too quickly on “could be” use cases too early. It takes a really, really mature sales and marketing motion to start solut ...Read More

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