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Senior Director Product Marketing at CrowdStrike
Hello,
Its important to understand your sales cycle from Leads, Discovery, Demo, Negotiations, Close to Customer Success - what in the cyle is causing your deal velocity to slow down and why.
Are there more elements of Education required? Are you spelling the functional value of the products correctly, or is it the value of doing business with your company - not clear.
Dig a little more - and the answer will be right there :)
Group Product Marketing Manager at Intercom
The essentials - and SDR deck, a first call deck, a standard intro demo, competitive intel and customer stories. Outside of those standards, our sales team really values our customer facing roadmap. And outside of standard 'big logo' customers testimonials - the more specfic industry / segmented testimonials we can provde - the better.
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VP of Marketing at Spekit
Pat and Sean did a great job answering with some more tactical approaches so
I'll be brief with a couple tips.
There are purpose built tools like Inkling that can be a great way to enable
massive sales teams, but they require a ton of investment to do well. Webinars
and quizzes are things that work well remotely. Salespeople are competitive so
use that to your advantage.
If you have a massive sales team, you should also have the budget to get some
outside help to help train them. I’d recommend hiring a professional services
firm to make sure the training doesn’t consume all of your...more
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Head of Product Marketing, ITSM at Atlassian
You have several products with release dates next to each other and limited resources, so what do you do? Here’s how you can think of this: first, identify the releases with the highest ‘tier’ or ‘priority’ (classification of release tiers vary company by company). The highest priority feature is typically the one with the highest impact in the market and that should get more enablement focus.
Head of Product Marketing at Scale AI
I know that this is sometimes an incredible challenge. I think the challenge specifically is around balance.
A balance between: What are metrics indicative of your business / GTM goals? AND What you can control?
This requires leadership buy-in from multiple groups — ideally they would understand Marketing and Product Marketing (this is not always the case!)
Based on Your Goals, I would then identify metrics. Some examples below:
- GTM / Revenue Initiatives —> Before and After Analysis (ideally based on something specific)
- Content —> Content Metrics
- Support —> NPS
Head (VP) of Global Enablement at Benchling
Your CMS (content management system) should have some sort of archiving parameters in place that should remind the PMM team when things get stale.
With that said, all the reminders in the world won't matter if people ignore them, so I recommend you also have a "librarian" of sorts manage your content site - whether it's in a sales portal or in another tool, someone who is in charge of managing the site, tracking metrics, and also monitoring / organizing PMM when content needs to be refreshed/archived.
VP of Product Marketing at Oyster®
Man, I love this question! As PMMs so much of our work only has impact if it has
engagement from others, and the only way to get that engagement is by having
credibility in the organization.
This won't be a perfect list or exhaustive, but some things that come to mind
are:
* Take the time to understand their world: Get out in the field with them, get
to know them over drinks, learn what customers are saying about how the
product is/isn't meeting their needs, see how our assets do in the wild, etc.
There's so many steps we can take to demonstrate we care, that we recognize
t...more
Vice President & Head of Marketing at Fin.com
Great competitive analysis comes from access to the right information,
meaningful insights into the data, and addressing the needs of sales in
real-time.
From an information access perspective, it's important to find the right sources
of information first and to do this efficiently. This should come from figuring
out both what you can easily access from sources available to you (perhaps
online research and analyst perspectives) and where it makes sense to put in th
effort to dig out further information (for example, finding former customers or
industry experts who can provide specific i...more