What are the common mistakes you see product marketers making when they launch new sales enablement programs?
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Gem VP of Marketing & Partnerships | Formerly Mixpanel, Slack, BlueJeans, Cisco • 6y
The biggest mistake I’ve made is not involving Sales at the ideation stage. Too many times, I’ve thought I had a great idea for a new program or piece of content, only to...
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I see a few issues: (1) not think about the sales process and the customer journey (CS version, not the marketing version). You need to think about when they will need c...
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Adobe Head of GTM Strategy, APAC & Japan • 2y
The biggest one I've seen not just with new programs but existing is not incorporating/including sales into the plan itself! I've found in my experience that sales can be...
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Pomerium Head of Marketing | Formerly Roofstock, Instacart, Uber, Algolia, Google • 5y
Simply put, I think focusing on the outputs (e.g., collateral/content creation) instead of understanding the problem and building a solution for that problem. But in ord...
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Close Head of Product Marketing • 4y
The most common mistake I see is PMM / Sales enablement positioned as a reactive team that is creating content and collateral for sales without a clear understanding of w...
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Actively AI VP of Marketing | Formerly Mezmo, Sauce Labs • 2y
If there's one thing you want to avoid when developing and launching a new sales enablement program, it's rigidity. Too often, I see product marketers who are used to doi...
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AssemblyAI CMO • 6y
Making the program without adequate sales buy in or guidance. There's an important balance to strike here: The product marketer should be focused on anticipating the ne...
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