What's the strategy on launching products that are really just parity products?
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Microsoft Sr. Director of Product Marketing & Growth- Copilot | Formerly Adobe, GoDaddy, Xero • 1mo
Lead with customer stories and use cases rather than feature differentiation — even when you're behind the competition, you can win by showing how the product improves cu...
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Salesforce Senior Director of Product Marketing • 1mo
Tier your launches — parity features are still launches and still valuable to customers. Think of launches as either building a more complete solution or driving innovati...
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Superhuman Senior Director, Head of Product Marketing, Mail | Formerly Google, Plaid, early Venmo • 1mo
Find the small but real points of differentiation within the parity feature, and don't oversell it — communicate honestly about what was built and why it's great.Key stra...
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