How do you make the transition from disparate products to a platform?
Snowflake Product Marketing Lead • 4mo
This is one of the hardest pivots to navigate because you're changing how customers buy, how sales teams sell, and how the market perceives your value — and that change d...
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MURAL Vice President, Segment Marketing | Formerly LinkedIn • 1y
The unsexy answer is that it just takes time. I've done the product-to-platform transition multiple times, and it's very challenging. The biggest challenge is upskilling...
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Toast Director, Product Marketing - Core product & SMB Segments | Formerly Zendesk • 3y
From a messaging perspective, you need to consider what's the "1+1=3" story. Part of this entails understanding when in the funnel to message on platform/solution-level b...
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Self Employed Product Marketing Leadership (Interim & Fractional) | Formerly Xero, Karbon, ApprovalMax • 2mo
One thing I’ve seen overlooked in platform transitions is timing the narrative to match customer readiness. You can have the best messaging and sales playbooks, but if yo...
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