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Grant Shirk
Cisco Head of Product Marketing, Cisco Campus Network Experiences • August 15
Internal evangelism and industry expertise. Yes, you need all the core PMM skills. You might even need to be a stronger writer and positioner than the core PMM. But if your sole goal is to help grow your share in a specific industry or set of industries, you're going to have to: * Sell hard......Read More
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Priya Gill
Momentive (SurveyMonkey) Vice President, Product Marketing • March 8
PMMs and Industry PMMs are very similar in terms of the core skill sets needed to be successful in their roles. The biggest difference is that they need to intimately understand the industry or set of industries that they are responsible for and the unique needs of the personas that they’re targe......Read More
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Sina Falaki
Motive Head of Industry, Segment, and Solutions Marketing • June 15
Storytelling, bringing the customer vision to life, and having a wide variety of skillsets (I always love ex-entrepreneurs) is vital for an industry marketer to be exceptional. The industry marketers job is to bring the buyers vision front and center. A key difference here is that product mar......Read More
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Jon Rooney
Unity Vice President Product Marketing • April 12
Generally, I'd say two things: 1) having enough familiarity and understanding of an industry to know how to craft a message that lands with a given audience and avoid missing the mark by either being vaguely horizontal or not speaking an industry's language. Every industry has their own tone, lex......Read More
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Zachary Reiss-Davis
Procore Technologies Head of Industry/Audience Marketing; Director of Product Marketing • July 13
All product marketers, no matter their focus area, need to understand both their product and their buyer -- but industry marketers tend to overindex on understanding the industry market, ICP, and Personas and the key messages that will resonate with them. In contract, more product-focused product......Read More
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Julie Vasquez
Procore Technologies Product Marketing Leader • June 23
Industry product marketers need to have a solid knowledge of the pain points and needs for the audience they serve and be able to translate product benefits into customer outcomes. They partner with product-focused solution marketers and campaign teams on go-to-market plans. However, their quarte......Read More
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With my industry product marketers, I nurture the development of a set of skills that I feel differentiate them. These are the skills I feel an industry product marketer should be exceptional at: 1.) Know your industry buyer personas. 2.) An industry product marketer should be able to speak in th......Read More
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Priya Gill
Momentive (SurveyMonkey) Vice President, Product Marketing • March 8
There are multiple key metrics I look at to see how our industry programs are performing and positively influencing the right outcomes, sliced by industry: * Company-level metrics: growth, profitability and retention * Marketing metrics: pipeline, campaign/content performance, brand perception......Read More
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Grant Shirk
Cisco Head of Product Marketing, Cisco Campus Network Experiences • August 16
Thank you! I appreciate the feedback. How would you answer this yourself?
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Matt Kaufman
Qualia VP of Marketing • September 15
When constructing your brand and messaging hierarchy it's valuable to have a 50 thousand foot view of the position for what your company represents, that helps anchor all of your audiences to what you do and what you represent. It also helps align the unique value prop for each audience to a cent......Read More
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