How do you handle the conflicting voices between sales, marketing and product?
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Gusto Head of Product Marketing | Formerly Apple, Electronic Arts, Digitas • 3y
My first piece of advice is to reframe ‘conflicting voices’ as different perspectives. When you think about it as different perspectives, it removes the negative connotat...
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Kodex Head of Marketing & Government Relations • 5y
- Anchor on the highest priority for the company, versus any one team. One of the hardest but also most liberating things about product marketing is that we are an inhere...
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Wisq Head of Marketing • 3y
It’s a useful exercise to determine first what the company’s most important objectives are rather than any one team’s. PMM, being as cross-functional as it is, acts as so...
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OpenAI Product Marketing • 3y
I wouldn’t view them as necessarily conflicting, but more so that PMM brings a different perspective :) First of all, I would lean into data as much as possible. That no...
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