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How would you recommend Product Marketing Managers improve their messaging skills?

Sarah Lambert
Symphony Talent Head of Product Marketing5y
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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Eric Chang
1Password Director, Product Marketing4y
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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April Rassa
Celigo Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly HackerOne, Cohere, Box, Google, Adobe5y
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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Alex Gutow
Arcade.dev Head of Marketing4y
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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Robert McGrath
Deel Head of Global Marketing + Expansion5y
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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Michele Nieberding
Treasure Data Director of Product Marketing1y
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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Julia Szatar
Tavus Head of Marketing4y
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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957 Views
Jenna Crane
Triple Whale 🐳 VP of Marketing | Formerly Klaviyo, Drift, Dropbox, Upwork4y
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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Frances Liu
Opus Solar VP of Marketing and Customer Success | Formerly Instawork, Upwork, Apple4y
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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Valerie Angelkos
Howl VP of Product Marketing | Formerly Google3y
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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Shruti Koparkar
Amazon Product Marketing Lead, AI/ML Acceleration, AWS1y
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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Morgan (Molnar) Lehmann
SurveyMonkey Senior Director, Head of Corporate Marketing | Formerly SurveyMonkey, Nielsen2y
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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Paul Rudwall
Hedra Head of Marketing | Formerly Docusign, Responsys, Invoca1y
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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Kelly Kipkalov
Carta Vice President Product Marketing2y
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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502 Views
Jane Reynolds
Upstart Product Marketing Director, New Products3y
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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Talia Moyal
Lovable B2B PMM Lead2y
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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Jeff Rezabek
Workyard Director of Product Marketing2y
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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