How would you recommend Product Marketing Managers improve their messaging skills?
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Symphony Talent Head of Product Marketing • 5y
I would suggest practicing by creating your own messaging frameworks for some of your favorite products or companies be they B2C or B2B. This should help you to start to ...
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1Password Director, Product Marketing • 4y
I'd recommend making sure to spend enough time on the planning and information gathering phase that is necessary prior to creating messaging. The most common issue I've s...
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Celigo Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly HackerOne, Cohere, Box, Google, Adobe • 5y
Messaging is the ability to communicate pains and solutions for a specific persona using the written word. PMM writing is unique because it’s all about distilling a messa...
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Arcade.dev Head of Marketing • 4y
2 pieces of advice here: 1) Take a look at the messaging from other companies (even outside of your market or industry). Who is really nailing it and what do you like abo...
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Deel Head of Global Marketing + Expansion • 5y
Research, and come with a growth mindset! Look and listen to what competitors in your market are doing. How does their messaging make you feel, how does it relate to your...
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Treasure Data Director of Product Marketing • 1y
Start with a template: This may include...Define who your audience is and what their pain points areWhat the key message pillars are (i.e. innovation, reliability, cost-e...
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Tavus Head of Marketing • 4y
This is mostly just practice, start writing, and keep writing. However, some specific things you could do include: Actively consume other marketing content. For example ...
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Triple Whale 🐳 VP of Marketing | Formerly Klaviyo, Drift, Dropbox, Upwork • 4y
Practice, practice, practice! Get as many reps in as you can, and have a marketer you admire give you very candid feedback. Bonus points if you can do a working session w...
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Opus Solar VP of Marketing and Customer Success | Formerly Instawork, Upwork, Apple • 4y
As others have mentioned, practice. It's hard to find the extra time, so here are some ideas: Try different frameworks to refresh on basics Find reasons to tag-team a re...
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Howl VP of Product Marketing | Formerly Google • 3y
Messaging for me is both an art and a science. I've seen very good narrative building frameworks and courses around that can you help you nail basic concepts (e.g how to ...
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Amazon Product Marketing Lead, AI/ML Acceleration, AWS • 1y
Create messaging that is compelling to your customers, differentiated than your competitors, and articulates a clear advantage for your customers. You have to have a clea...
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SurveyMonkey Senior Director, Head of Corporate Marketing | Formerly SurveyMonkey, Nielsen • 2y
Messaging is a skill that takes time and effort to improve. And not everyone intuitively "gets it" when it comes to crafting great messaging. Here are 8 ways I'd recomme...
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Hedra Head of Marketing | Formerly Docusign, Responsys, Invoca • 1y
Great Product Marketers are made, not born. While some may have innate talents suited to the role, Product Marketing is a craft that must be honed over time. Here are som...
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Carta Vice President Product Marketing • 2y
Great messaging isn't as easy as people think! Two things come to mind.First, learn the art of writing a single minded proposition, aka "SMP." If you aren't crystal cle...
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Upstart Product Marketing Director, New Products • 3y
Messaging is so important, not only when conveying new features, updates, and opportunities to your customers, but also when getting internal buy-in and gathering resourc...
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Lovable B2B PMM Lead • 2y
Always always always bring it back to the perspective of the prospect / customer. Your super power as a PMM is reading people to understand what's most important to them....
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Workyard Director of Product Marketing • 2y
The skills that I believe is most crucial for developing good messaging is asking good questions and then listening. Get in front of as many customers as you can and list...
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