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What is the best way you've found to coach a new product marketer on creating messaging?

Jeffrey Vocell
BFC Software Head of Product Marketing | Formerly Narvar, Iterable, HubSpot, IBM6y
The best way I've found is to start small, and grow over-time. To explain that further, when a brand-new product marketer starts I will typically walk through step-by-ste...
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Aliza Edelstein
Scribe VP of Product Marketing5y
I see three prongs to creating good messaging: understanding the customer, understanding the market, and understanding the product. I’d recommend the following to coach a...
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Indy Sen
Canva GTM Advisor/Fractional Leader/Author | Formerly Google, Salesforce, Box, Mulesoft, WeWork, Matterport, Canva5y
Give them the right frameworks, brand/voice guidelines and templates, and get out of their way :)A good product marketing hire will be a strong communicator and naturally...
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Frances Liu
Opus Solar VP of Marketing and Customer Success | Formerly Instawork, Upwork, Apple4y
It depends on the person's prior experience, but the core skills are around: research/insights, building personas, building the messaging framework. And a general coachin...
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Leonardo Vergani
McKinsey & Company Engagement Manager6y
I had to coach a few people on messaging on my past role, which pushed me to develop a structured approach to coach inexperienced product marketer on writing compelling m...
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Steph Kong
ZoomInfo Senior Product Marketing Manager6y
I tend to think newer product marketers might messaging on function, rather than benefit. Meaning: they'll write what you can do using the product or feature— which is of...
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MELANIE KARUNARATNE
IVANTI (former employer) VP Marketing - Product Marketing5y
Provide the frameworks, processes, and introductions to the right people. Be very clear to explain or confirm their understanding of various elements; feature, use case...
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Vivek Asija
WisdomAI Head of Product Marketing6y
I try to teach new product marketers how to think critically about positioning and messaging. It's very tempting to rest on more obvious product and feature descriptions...
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