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Once you have a go to market strategy in place, how do you "convince" everyone on the marketing team, and get the ball rolling around the strategy you've built?

I'm looking for functional/tactical tips please.
Victoria Chernova
OpenAI Product Marketing3y
Here are a few considerations and actions you can take to build support across the team: Tie your launch goals to the greater Marketing team goals. It’s important to con...
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Michele Nieberding
Treasure Data Director of Product Marketing3y
Get buy in EARLY, and share "excitement" around WHY the strategy was decided on and the potential value/opportunity it brings for the company and that specific marketing ...
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Aurelia Solomon
Salesforce Senior Director, Product Marketing3y
I know this isn't tactical, but I would make sure to include them in the product launch kick off meeting (which happens ever before you have your entire plan built) becau...
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Hien Phan
TigerData Head of Marketing3y
This question is a great one. First, you don't build the GTM strategy in a vacuum. It's not an exercise of a product marketer where she goes into a dark room for ten days...
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Amanda Groves
Enable VP of Product Marketing | Formerly Crossbeam, 6sense, JazzHR, Imagine Learning, Appsembler3y
I typically back up departmental asks with customer sentiment (qual) and data (quant). This makes it easier to rally team members around our why and cultivate influence t...
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Candice Sparks
Attentive Senior Director of Product Marketing2y
Usually lack of alignment is due to lack of information. To drive forward a GTM strategy a lot of pre-work needs to occur so that when you are ready to broadly share your...
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Lauren Craigie
Inngest Head of Marketing2y
I want to answer this one because I think it’s important to take note of the framing :) The marketing team shouldn’t have to be “convinced” after you’ve already created a...
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Lisa Dziuba
Lemon.io Head of Growth Product Marketing | Formerly LottieFiles, WeLoveNoCode (made $3.6M ARR), Abstract, Flawless App (sold)3y
You need to get buy-in to the GTM strategy before you build it that includes: involving the team in the strategy development process, as this can increase their ownersh...
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RJ Gazarek
SolarWinds Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Veracode, Atlassian, Amplitude3y
I've found in my career that when I create the strategy on my own, it's much harder to convince everyone else to buy into it. However, suppose I include those other marke...
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Andrew Hahn
Product Marketing Manager | Formerly Oracle3y
Getting everyone on board after you're done is a lot harder if they haven't been involved from the start. Give the GTM plan an iterative process treatment. Start with a r...
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