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What are the three most important metrics to measure the impact of a product marketing team?

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Sina Falaki
Sina Falaki
Motive Head of Global Product MarketingSeptember 19

Great question - Because I am so focused on Industry Marketing right now, I have it divided between Product Marketing KPIs and Industry Marketing KPIs: 

For Product Marketing: 

  • Conversions NARR 
  • Attachment rates - new logo and cross selling
  • Product ASP - the sales price, keep a close eye on this

Industry marketers on the other hand look at:

  • Industry/Segment NARR
  • Gross Pipeline
  • Win/close rates
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Kristen Kanka
Kristen Kanka
Morningstar Head of Marketing, Enterprise SolutionsJanuary 26
  1. Revenue - this should specificially be marketing contributed or influenced. 
  2. Retention - this is typically a percentage and the target number will be dependent on the maturity of your prodcut line. Its also possible to see this target exceed 100% if you are increasing your price on your product or if you are focused on upsell / account expansion based on your marketing strategy. 
  3. Net promoter score - or any other key indicator of cusotmer satisfaction.

If all three of these things are positive, you’ve likely got happy customers, and I’m happy if the customers are happy!

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Jon Rooney
Jon Rooney
Unity Vice President Product MarketingDecember 6

Obviously exact metrics will vary by company, but metrics that fall in one of these 3 buckets:

  1. Revenue (ARR, MRR, LTV) - some measure that shows that the products/areas you focus on are capturing, as well as creating, value.

  2. Product usage (Activation, churn rate, time spent <...>) - "shelfware" is the bane of many a PMM's existence, but with cloud, modern telemetry and PLG motions, it's never been easier to see if people are using your products and how, for how long, etc.

  3. Customer engagement/satisfaction (Net Promoter Score, CSAT, 3rd party ratings/rankings) - Happy customers are a leading indicator of future revenue so build out a program to track at least one measurement.

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Scott Ivell
Scott Ivell
Stripe Head of International Product & Solution MarketingSeptember 7

It does depend somewhat on where you are in your growth and how broad your portfolio is, but i think along 3 'north star' metric dimensions:

  • Business KPI, that PMM indirectly influence: SQLs, Win Rate - ideally PMM tracks the trend over time rather than the absolute to seperate the signal from the noise
  • Activity KPI: are we shipping what we committed to ship, and are we doing it on time, with quality
  • Leverage KPI: is what PMM produce being used. I try to move beyond content downloads or views and push for utilisation e.g. are our enablement assets connected to opptys and driving pipe
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