Can you share your perspective and best practices for repositioning a mature, market-leading product?
We often talk about product messaging in the context of a new product launch.
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Scribe VP of Product Marketing • 5y
There are many points in a company’s lifecycle when messaging and positioning should be reassessed—such as product launches, rebranding, or when you’re getting consistent...
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Iterable Chief Marketing Officer • 4y
In many cases when you’re trying to reposition a mature, market-leading product, it’s because 1) you’re either trying to change your target market’s perception of your pr...
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Verkada Vice President Product Marketing • 4y
I really like this question because it's not every day that you're launching a new product. Oftentimes you're making incremental improvements to a product (for example, w...
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OpenTable Director of Product Marketing • 4y
Good point! I actually find repositioning work to be some of the most fun and rewarding type of product marketing work. With new product launches you often need to work o...
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Jasper Product Marketing | Formerly Atlassian (Trello), HubSpot, Lyft • 4y
Research, research, research! This is something we embarked on a few years ago for Trello - we had been acquired by Atlassian and over time we needed to cement our place ...
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Circana Chief Strategy Officer | Formerly Microsoft, SAP, McKinsey • 4y
ah yes - that can be tricky! on the one hand you don't want to alienate existing customers (for whom the product and message likely are working) but you also may want to ...
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