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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?
Diana Smith
LangChain VP of Marketing6y
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 ensur...
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Matt Kaufman
Cube Chief Marketing Officer5y
When constructing your brand and messaging hierarchy it's valuable to have a 50 thousand foot view of the position for what your company represents, that helps anchor all...
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Jon Rooney
Box Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Splunk, New Relic, Microsoft, Unity, Oracle6y
I assume by segments you mean industry/vertical and/or company size (SMB vs large enterprise, for example) - in that case I’d consider running methodical research work (s...
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Malli Vangala
Circana Chief Strategy Officer | Formerly Microsoft, SAP, McKinsey4y
Great question! We faced a similar challenge a few years ago for one of our suite of solutions. It may boil down to how critical each of those three segments are to your ...
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Div Manickam
Mentor | Product Marketing Leader | Formerly Lenovo | Dell Boomi | Celigo | GoodData6y
It is recommended to start with one segment to test/iterate, to completely understand the buyer needs/value proposition and then build messaging for the other two segment...
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Daniel Palay
KPI Sense Chief Executive Officer6y
Work backwards. Develop very targeted (10,000 foot) messaging for each of the three. Then analyze those stories and find the idea(s) you can use to tie them together, or ...
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