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What are the biggest surprises when going from a company where product marketing was established to one where you have to establish product marketing?

Gregg Miller
PandaDoc VP of Product Marketing & Brand5y
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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Adam Kerin
Truepic VP of Marketing4y
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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Thomas Dong
NetSpring VP of Product Marketing | Formerly Couchbase, OpenText, IBM5y
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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Andy Schumeister
Anthropic Product Marketing4y
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...
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Jennifer Kay Corridon
Midi Health Go To Market & Principal PMM | Formerly Homebase, Angi, The Knot4y
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...
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Anand Patel
Appcues Director of Product Marketing5y
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...
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Jasmine Jaume
Career & Leadership Coach/ Former Director, Product Marketing4y
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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