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Kate Hodgins
Kate Hodgins

Amperity Vice President Product & Customer Marketing, Competive Intelligence | Formerly Amazon, Qualtrics, SAP, DreamBox Learning, Carnegie Learning • 2y

Several times in my career, I have joined organizations where I had to shift the perception of Product Marketing from being just a launch arm to a strategic player within...
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Samridhi Anand
Samridhi Anand

NetraScale Product Marketing Manager | Formerly BeeHyv Software, Debtstream, Willaim O'Neil Inc • Mon

I've become a bit wary of launch metrics that only measure activity. A successful launch isn't just "we sent the emails and held the webinar." It's whether the launch act...
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What does a successful product launch look like for you as a PMM in terms of skills, planning, and metrics?

I’d love to hear how others break this down in practice. From your experience, what are the key PMM skills that really make or break a launch (e.g. positioning, cross-functional alignment, storytelling, sales enablement, etc.)? Also, how do you approach planning so it doesn’t become just a “launch checklist,” but actually drives real adoption and impact post-launch? And finally, what metrics do you rely on to define success beyond just awareness, especially when it comes to tying the launch back to revenue or product usage?

Samridhi Anand
Samridhi Anand

NetraScale Product Marketing Manager | Formerly BeeHyv Software, Debtstream, Willaim O'Neil Inc • Jun 16

When I think about a successful product launch, especially from my time working at DebtStream, it’s less about the launch day itself and more about whether the product ac...
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How do you test messaging before launching a new product? What are different approaches that would help us be confident about the message that would result in better conversion?

I took a survey and in person interviews with customers and did different exercises but I am wondering what would make me more confident about the message

Ruth  Juni
Ruth Juni

Demandbase Director of Product Marketing • 3y

There are multiple ways to test messaging before launching a new product. One way is to do qualitative message testing with focus groups or in one-on-one interviews. You ...
2,581 Views

How does a GenAI enabled platform change your approach to customer segmentation?

In a short time, everything is different. Customer segmentation is a hard problem. Does your previous customer segmentation still work? Did you adapt it? Did you create anything new? Or is it still so early that you're still figuring it out?

Amanda Groves
Amanda Groves

Zywave VP of Product Marketing | Formerly Crossbeam, 6sense, JazzHR, Imagine Learning, Appsembler • 1y

It makes it more fluid for sure -- some things I like to keep in mind. Instead of relying solely on firmographics, we can now incorporate real-time signals, sentiment, an...
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Andrew Kaplan
Andrew Kaplan

LinkedIn Director of Product Marketing • 1y

It sounds like by “GTM readiness” the questioner might mean “marketing launch readiness”, so I’ll answer within that framing. I touch on this in another answer, but brie...
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Kelly Kipkalov
Kelly Kipkalov

Carta Vice President Product Marketing • 1mo

Sharing a substack from Andrew Chen called "Always Be Launching."It's a great reminder to stay away from the trap of orchestrating big launches that slow you down. If yo...
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How to educate the company of the importance of a structured product launch?

As a worker for a new ventures team in a Wellness Tech unicorn, I have to juggle the necessity to be fast and testing with a good and structured approach and pitch. Sometimes the sales team goes over my head and starts selling without proper alignment.

Kuber Sharma
Kuber Sharma

UiPath Sr. Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, Tableau, Microsoft • 1mo

Shana and Lara have covered the operational side well. I'd add the angle of how to make the business case internally when your company is in fast-growth mode and process ...
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Manoj Gunti
Manoj Gunti

Google Head of Product Marketing - Data & AI • 1mo

Product readiness isn't a single gate. It's a checklist across three dimensions - product, story, and field.Across all launch tiers, the foundation is to make sure:Produc...
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Kuber Sharma
Kuber Sharma

UiPath Sr. Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, Tableau, Microsoft • 1mo

Stacie and Don cover the "bring comms in early" principle well. Where I've seen this get complicated at enterprise scale is the exact point of handoff and who owns what a...
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What do you use for internal Product Launch Process Alignment?

I am looking for a framework to use internally with executive stakeholders to align on a product launch process. Does anyone have a framework they have used successfully?

Nikhil Gangaraju
Nikhil Gangaraju

Amplitude Product Marketing Director • 1y

We have a pretty detailed NPI framework that breaks down the Product, Ops, GTM, Sales deliverables that are impacted across a tiered system of launches Tier 1 - New produ...
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How can PMMs adapt GTM plans as early assumptions break down after launch?

Lately, I’ve found myself revisiting GTM docs I wrote just 6 weeks ago — and questioning half of it. Most GTM plans are built on early signals: 👉 A few conversations with users 👉 Feedback from beta testers 👉 Initial market research But then you launch. Your assumptions meet reality — and sometimes, they don’t hold up. Your ICP starts looking different The messaging that resonated in interviews falls flat So the real question is: How do you integrate what you’ve learned — without rewriting everything from scratch?

Kuber Sharma
Kuber Sharma

UiPath Sr. Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, Tableau, Microsoft • 2mo

The best framing I have found for this is to stop thinking of the GTM plan as a document and start thinking of it as a set of hypotheses you are testing in real time.I ha...
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What do you use or do to get people to buy into your positioning plans and consistently using them?

The product marketers job typically revolves around positioning a product. Sometimes, it can be difficult to align sales, marketing, and product teams around your positioning.

Alissa Lydon
Alissa Lydon

Actively AI VP of Marketing | Formerly Mezmo, Sauce Labs • 5y

Two words: customer stories! Product Marketers need to make sure that everyone is united in telling the same story about our product and its value. I always think of it l...
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Nil Onal
Nil Onal

WhatsApp Consumer Product Marketing Lead • 2mo

Metrics should always be a reflection of the specific outcomes we’re trying to drive. I like to use the "Goal, Track, and Guardrail" framework:The Goal (The North Star): ...
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Nil Onal
Nil Onal

WhatsApp Consumer Product Marketing Lead • 2mo

A good user acquisition strategy starts with full-funnel thinking and diagnosing where the biggest opportunity is before jumping to Marketing execution.  Here is my go-to...
11,017 Views
Bhavika Thakkar
Bhavika Thakkar

Microsoft Sr. Director of Product Marketing & Growth- Copilot | Formerly Adobe, GoDaddy, Xero • 3mo

AI accelerates competitive analysis, messaging gut checks, audience-specific copy, and creative development — all helping get products to market faster.Key ways AI is bei...
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