Platform and Solutions Product Marketing
UiPath Sr. Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, Tableau, Microsoft • 2mo
I created the Zero Copy data sharing category — not theoretically, but literally: named it, built the analyst strategy, drove the Gartner evaluation process, and landed a...
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Self Employed Product Marketing Leadership (Interim & Fractional) | Formerly Xero, Karbon, ApprovalMax • 3mo
One thing I’ve seen overlooked in platform transitions is timing the narrative to match customer readiness. You can have the best messaging and sales playbooks, but if yo...
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How would you package a set of features from different products that when used together, provide new value to a specific persona?
Today all our packaging is solution-based, or bundles, and we help multiple personas in each solution. this is the first time we want to package something for a persona using multiple products/features
Fmr Product Marketing Leader, Cisco | Formerly Twilio, Cisco, Gartner • 1y
Since your packaging is normally solution-based, shifting to persona-based packaging requires a different approach.Steps to package multi-product features for a persona:D...
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MURAL Vice President, Segment Marketing | Formerly LinkedIn • 1y
Platform Marketing is an extension of traditional product marketing. Instead of owning a single product or capability, Platform Marketers are responsible for bringing co...
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How to create a strategy for solution selling?
Most B2B companies have a strategy for solution selling. How do they do it? How do they know which use cases or industries to focus on? How do you go from having the research to delivering the strategy for solution selling?
Snowflake Product Marketing Lead • 6mo
Solution selling isn't just bundling products into a new offering and slapping a catchy name on it. The best strategies identify high-value customer problems that natural...
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MURAL Vice President, Segment Marketing | Formerly LinkedIn • 1y
Core platform messaging is an input to solution messaging; it may not be in the headline, but it’s definitely in the sub-bullets. Solution messaging focuses on personas ...
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DeepL VP Product Marketing | Formerly Adobe, Salesforce • 7mo
ooh now this is a good question. Let's assume the platform level messaging is tested with users. focus groups and is signed off with your leadership team!In essence, thin...
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How do you get customers from diverse products interested in a single platform?
Let's say the company has a portfolio of complex products, each one that does something totally different, but they all work together to create a single platform. But here's the catch: customers are used to buying individual products vs the platform. How do you make that switch and roll it out to existing customers and the rest of the market?
Snowflake Product Marketing Lead • 6mo
Right now is the perfect time to drive this shift. Leaders are under pressure to fund AI initiatives with flat budgets. Consolidation is a great way to do that, meaning t...
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MURAL Vice President, Segment Marketing | Formerly LinkedIn • 1y
Work closely with a handful of reps with an early adopter mentality and highlight their wins so the team has reason to believe in selling something new. A common misconc...
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How can I help my company make the switch from product to solution marketing?
The startup I work for is making the switch from product to solutions marketing. I will be leading this effort. How can I ensure we do the switch well?
Zuora VP Product Marketing • 7mo
Interesting that your company is making a “switch.” In my experience, product and solutions marketing are complementary disciplines and you don’t necessarily want to aban...
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Amperity SVP, Head of Marketing • 1y
You should have a full GTM funnel strategy for each of your ICPs. Top of Funnel: What's the industry trend that's forcing your ICP to adapt or change? These trends have t...
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DeepL VP Product Marketing | Formerly Adobe, Salesforce • 7mo
I'll answer the question on the assumption that we already have an established business in another market. This could be in another country or another segment. Mistakes i...
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How is your team making the transition from product marketing to solutions marketing?
Do PMMs share both product and solutions marketing responsibilities? Or do PMM now speak more to the users and solution marketers to the buyers?
Box Head of Product Marketing, AI & Platform | Formerly Google Gemini • 4y
I view the role of a PMM as being someone who owns the full story/customer perception of a product, is the product-line CMO so to speak. Sometimes you will need to market...
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DeepL VP Product Marketing | Formerly Adobe, Salesforce • 7mo
Early PMM impact shows up where buyers engage and change behaviour. If your story, proof, and enablement are working, you’ll see better conversion in the segment you targ...
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Salesforce SVP & CMO, Tableau • 3y
I am familiar with this situation as I was here not too long ago. ;) Here's what worked well for me:
As a new leader, establish your 30-60-90 days goals with your manag...
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What are key certifications or courses to become a product marketing manager?
I'm a digital marketing specialist looking to transition to product marketing
Triple Whale 🐳 VP of Marketing | Formerly Klaviyo, Drift, Dropbox, Upwork • 3y
Courses, certifications, and books can definitely help transition into product marketing, but the best way to learn is by doing. I would see if there are side projects yo...
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What tools do you use to manage your packaging, positioning and messaging frameworks?
Is there a tool that helps PMMs with the day to day work of producing and managing assets?
Fmr Product Marketing Leader, Cisco | Formerly Twilio, Cisco, Gartner • 1y
If you're not using AI, you're behind! Here are some tips on how to get started right away. The AI tools I love are ChatGTP, Claude, Notion, and Perplexity. PRO TIP: Lots...
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Fmr Product Marketing Leader, Cisco | Formerly Twilio, Cisco, Gartner • 1y
Once you’ve told the big industry story, you need to show depth and credibility within that industry.Ways to reinforce industry expertise:Customer Proof: Showcase custome...
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MURAL Vice President, Segment Marketing | Formerly LinkedIn • 1y
In my opinion, all Product Marketers are Solution Marketers, whether or not they specifically have the word “Solution” in their title. PMMs don’t call it a day and head h...
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How does your platform and solutions PMMs collaborate with product-focused PMMs?
I'm the first product marketer focused on a specific industry across our entire platform while the majority of the team is focused on specific product(s) and/or sales segment.
Freshworks Vice President - Global Product Marketing | Formerly Klaviyo, Qualtrics, Microsoft, MckInsey • 3y
This is a common model at enterprise focused companies. . I can share a bit from my experience at Microsoft and Qualtrics
First- the industry PMM is the subject matte...
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Motive Product Marketing Lead • 4y
When a company has a broad portfolio of products and serves multiple vertical markets, it is useful to have product marketers dedicated to reaching those audiences. This ...
790 Views
Shopify Senior Product Marketing Lead • 2y
Even if accessing quantitative data is a challenge, you can almost always find a way to get great qualitative data by setting up interviews with customers or prospects. Y...
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Fivetran VP Product & Portfolio Marketing • 4y
At Fivetran, we actually have a few different Product Marketing teams in order to be able to do both core product messaging as well as more portfolio messaging. At Fivetr...
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Upgrade, Inc. Director of Product Marketing • 3y
If you're building demand for a new category, it's ideal that there's runway for a platform and not just a handful of features. Can you start in one area that you're uniq...
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Aembit CMO • 3y
Think about what matters most to your customer, and then what matters most to your company. Is your base platform something which your customers will natively interact wi...
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Atlassian Senior Director, Head of Portfolio PMM, Strategy Collection | Formerly Amazon, Stitch Fix, Pandora • 1y
Measuring KPIs is an important way to tie your output to outcomes. My approach is to ensure PMM focuses on the metrics we can influence, getting buy in from cross-functio...
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Since payments are not like SaaS, where you are selling a subscription, how does your product marketing team define success?
Are you looking at things like adoption? If so, how do you work towards that or other success metrics?
MURAL Vice President, Segment Marketing | Formerly LinkedIn • 1y
Success is when my messaging leads to us acquiring leads, generating pipeline and winning deals with specific personas we are trying to reach. I start my day looking at M...
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CData Software Chief Marketing Officer • 4y
When moving your messaging from product-centric to solutions-centric, you're going to bring in experts in the solutions you're trying to organize around. Whether that be ...
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SAP Director of Product Marketing • 4y
In smaller organizations, I've found this is much harder. The marketing team, sales team, and product team might all sit very close to each other. Small organizations e...
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How do you handle the tradeoff between addressing many needs for one vertical vs. addressing 1-2 needs for multiple verticals?
We are a B2B company with a horizontal platform considering vertical expansion, and trying to decide which new verticals to enter.
The Remarketables GTM Advisor/Fractional Leader/Author | Formerly Google, Salesforce, Box, Mulesoft, WeWork, Matterport, Canva • 2y
Great question, and always exciting to be at a juncture where you're considering expanding your GTM to address specific verticals and opportunities. Getting a vertical ri...
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SAP Director of Product Marketing • 4y
This is a really great question and one that will define the role you play in the organization greatly. I like to say that when the PMM team sits in Product Management, ...
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Box Head of Product Marketing, AI & Platform | Formerly Google Gemini • 4y
I'm big on analogies (perhaps annoyingly so), so equate it to a concert: The Portfolio or Suite is like the band. It's the grouping of the products that you sell/come to ...
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Chewy Senior Director, Head of Global Marketing • 4y
When you're starting out your career as a PMM, it is very important to remember that your value promise is to customers and not internal stakeholders. I don't mean to say...
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Ex-VP, Product Marketing @ ClickUp, SurveyMonkey, Gainsight, Marketo | Formerly Momentive, Gainsight, Marketo • 3y
Someone once said that the best messaging joins the conversations already happening in your prospects' heads. Or something to that effect. With that in mind, I always sta...
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SurveyMonkey Senior Director, Head of Corporate Marketing | Formerly SurveyMonkey, Nielsen • 4y
All the time! Again, I'm lucky to be a product marketing leader working on a market research product, so I have unlimited access to our own message testing solutions.
We...
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Pressable Chief Marketing Officer • 2y
I have not taken a product marketing course recently, but they can be great options that help introduce the fundamentals of the craft. The Product Marketing Alliance also...
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Fivetran VP Product & Portfolio Marketing • 4y
I am a project manager at heart. So I push the team to be the same. We have our roadmaps which we present and then turn into tickets for overall tracking. We also have a ...
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Which are the mandatory questions you should ask the company founders when you're empowered to create the Product Marketing function from zero?
I will face this challenge very son and my thoughts are:
- which are the company objectives?
- which are the marketing and product marketing specific objectives?
- the resources in place to achieve the objectives (human, financial, tools)
- where is the product on the lifecycle?
- top three priorities
- how are sales/marketing/product teams organised?
Clari VP, Brand, Content and Product Marketing • 2y
Ask them what they need, what the challenges are, what the opportunities are - and what has gotten in the way so far. Also ask about the value customers are getting from ...
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Sendbird fmr Head of Marketing | Formerly SmartRecruiters, Mixpanel, Deloitte, Beardwood&Co • 3y
Sales enablement programs have to be designed with a hierarchy in mind, just like how there's a messaging hierarchy. You lead with the hero and follow with the supporting...
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How can a PMM best keep their leadership (Sr. Director, VP-level) best updated on an iterative & volatile product development process for a venture bet? What's the best communication cadence and format so leadership has confidence in the team?
I work at a large tech enterprise, where product development usually follows a predictable timeline and cadence. However, I'm the lead PMM on a massive venture bet, where product development is highly iterative (lots of testing, learning, and re-thinking of the product plan). I've been asked to "own" the GTM strategy & regularly share out on it, even while the product plan is not fully in place. I'm struggling to manage up & could use advice on what a leader is really looking for in terms of comms on a project like this.
Amperity SVP, Head of Marketing • 2y
The best way is to help the product and engineering teams bucket and articulate their work and goals. Bucket [or Theme] Product Development - Help your product managers a...
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Chewy Senior Director, Head of Global Marketing • 4y
There are three key types of interviews you should consider preparing for when applying to a small or big tech company:
· Product marketing core competency interviews
· B...
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SpherePay VP of Marketing • 6y
I don't actually use market research for that, is the short answer. If we believe that our solution is well suited for a particular vertical, we have the budget to inves...
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How do you as a product marketer create brand messaging that appeals to three highly distinct segments?
My company’s product (we’re a marketplace) serves three distinct segments with very different motivations. I’m struggling to create brand messaging that speaks to all three. Any advice on how to approach? Or is this a matter of needing to choose one segment to focus on?
BrainKraft Founder • 8y
Not sure what you are trying to accomplish. Could you elaborate? Companies like Oracle, IBM, Microsoft have to deal with what I think is your challenge: come up with a co...
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ICONIQ Capital Product & Content Marketing | Formerly Replicant, MobileCoin, Zuora, Hired, Oracle, Responsys • 5y
I wouldn’t prioritize it and instead focus on iterating on your existing product messaging and positioning. Get clarity on how to message and position your existing produ...
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Enable VP of Product Marketing | Formerly Crossbeam, 6sense, JazzHR, Imagine Learning, Appsembler • 3y
PMMs often are measured by output, since most of what we provide are tied to other metrics. I would focus on delivering tangible assets on a regular cadence (case studies...
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ActiveCampaign VP Product Marketing | Formerly Pendo, Demandbase, Conga, SAP • 3y
I've usually taken the approach that a product bundle should have at least a slight discount as an incentive to purchase the bundle. Many times people want most but not a...
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How do you map and orchestrate a b2b buyer journey, from learning to buying?
We're currently revisiting our content strategy here at Resultados Digitais, and some help on the subject would be very valuable.
Our main challenges include:
- Finding which types of of subject/content/format/channel work better, and in which stage of the journey;
and
- Understand how far should we go on segmenting and personalizing our strategy, and under which axis (demographics, persona, etc);
Marketing & GTM Consultant | Formerly ClickUp, Vanta, DreamWorks Animation • 3y
In order to understand your ideal distribution strategy, you have to know your ICP extremely well. Your company growth strategy will also play a role... product-led (PLG)...
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How can I start making a change in my organization to influence the roadmap based on consumer insights?
I am at a company where Product builds the roadmap without many insights from Marketing or research.
Sendbird fmr Head of Marketing | Formerly SmartRecruiters, Mixpanel, Deloitte, Beardwood&Co • 3y
If your product team ignores product marketing, that can be fixed through better exec alignment, relationship building and proving out collaboration successes in smaller,...
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Skopenow Director of Product Marketing • 8y
I'm going to focus on just one part of that equation: Solution. This is an often misrepresented piece of the product marketers toolkit. I have found that so many companie...
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How do you build a consistent lead generation framework across channels for your product? What kind of a martech stack do you suggest for beginners?
Question asked from the perspective of a CRM vendor that is trying to scale up.
Box Head of Product Marketing, AI & Platform | Formerly Google Gemini • 4y
Answering this based on the context of the question being asked from the POV of a CRM vendor looking to scale: The biggest challenge I've come across is attribution. The ...
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