How do you validate your messaging and positioning once you've already finalized them?
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Canva Head Of Product Marketing • 4y
Testing, iterating, and optimizing with your core audiences is the key to successful positioning: Talk to your customers and prospective customers to see how the messag...
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Atlassian Head of Product Marketing, Bitbucket • 1y
I’m going to split my answer into two parts, using the following (loose) definitions:Positioning: An internal-only description of what the product is, who it’s for, the p...
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Circana Chief Strategy Officer | Formerly Microsoft, SAP, McKinsey • 4y
We try to validate our messaging and positioning prior to finalizing them. We try to obtain feedback from the sales team (ultimately they will use this messaging/position...
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Glassdoor Director, Product Marketing • 4y
Change is inevitable! So whenever possible, going to market with “final” messaging should include room for evolution over time based on various external and internal fact...
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Zendesk Vice President, Product Marketing, AI and Automation | Formerly LinkedIn • 1y
A mentor once told me messaging and positioning if never done :) That's because the market changes, trends come and go, and your audience is never static. I strongly reco...
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Druva Sr. Director, Product Management • 3y
Here is how I validate before and after finalizing them: Form a guild or squad consisting of product manager, sales rep, CSM, an exec (if possible). Use them as a sound...
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Workyard Director of Product Marketing • 2y
Messaging and positioning is never truly "finalized." It'll evolve as your product and market does. So, the first thing will be to shift your mindset. You can validate th...
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