What are the biggest surprises when going from a company where product marketing was established to one where you have to establish product marketing?
PandaDoc VP of Product Marketing & Brand • 5y
One of the biggest surprises is that the vast majority of people at smaller companies have little idea of what product marketing is. Your new colleagues may have never wo...
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Truepic VP of Marketing • 4y
I’ve been the first PMM at two startups now. It's been pleasantly surprising how impactful some of the basic PMM tools are when applied for the first time, and how quickl...
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NetSpring VP of Product Marketing | Formerly Couchbase, OpenText, IBM • 5y
It's not so much surprises, as it is the scope of opportunities to improve sales and marketing effectiveness. PMM generally brings stability and consistency to messaging,...
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Anthropic Product Marketing • 4y
The biggest surprise is that even though product marketing may not exist as a function, the company is already doing product marketing: launching new products, pricing an...
586 Views
Midi Health Go To Market & Principal PMM | Formerly Homebase, Angi, The Knot • 4y
I remain surprised by how many digital professionals or companies with outsized product footprints are still unfamiliar with the specialty of "product marketing." When y...
442 Views
Appcues Director of Product Marketing • 5y
I've had to build out product marketing at both a large organization (4,000 employees) and a growing organization (150 employees), and I would say the biggest surprise/ch...
632 Views
Career & Leadership Coach/ Former Director, Product Marketing • 4y
My experience was actually the other way round - I went from a company where I was the first PMM and helped establish the PMM team, to a company where there was already a...
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