Solutions and Platform Product Marketing

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Christy Roach
Christy Roach
AssemblyAI VP of MarketingOctober 9
Everyone’s definition of soft and hard skills differs, but here are the nine skills that I think are the most important for a product marketer to have. I've used these skills as a compass to help me grow in my own career and have turned them into a success guide for my team at Envoy to use: Soft......Read More
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How do you split the PMM function vs general marketing function responsibilities, and how do you better manage this relationship?
Not to create divide or silos, but to be able to handover ownership at a certain stage whilst remaining involved
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April Rassa
April Rassa
Aventi Group Product Marketing ConsultantJanuary 20
The key is to clearly define roles and responsibilities within your Marketing organization. For starters, let's start with where Product Marketing fits in. Product Marketing operates at the center of product, marketing, sales, and customer success teams. Under the general marketing umbrella, the......Read More
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Indy Sen
Indy Sen
Canva Ecosystem Marketing LeaderDecember 22
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 right is not always easy, but when you have the right structure and offerings, the work across other opportunities is very repeat......Read More
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Krithika Muthukumar
Krithika Muthukumar
OpenAI VP of MarketingDecember 20
While you can have really compelling per-product pitches, the real challenge of selling a platform is getting prospects and customers to buy into a vision that unifying their systems is going to be a force multiplier for their company. The value is that 1 + 1 > 2. In selling a platform, it’s impe......Read More
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Diana Smith
Diana Smith
Hashi Senior Director of Product MarketingJuly 17
You nailed why platform products are difficult to message. This is also why I think they are more fun than working on “point solutions.” (Please forgive me for using that heinous jargon.) In the best-case scenario, you can identify an overarching value proposition for using the platform that r......Read More
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Nipul Chokshi
Nipul Chokshi
Fourth CMOSeptember 8
I found that making the shift to “solutions” or “platform” requires becoming more business outcome focused in terms of your messaging. Rather than speak to individual user-level features/benefits (e.g. “the app launches 2x as fast”) you want to speak to the business impact that it delivers (e.g. ......Read More
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Brandon McGraw
Brandon McGraw
DoorDash Senior Director, Head of Product MarketingApril 1
I came from a background in brand and so my natural instincts served me most well on the outbound side of product marketing. I had my fair share of imposter syndrom in the early days when I looked at my peers and realized that I'd never done the traditional inbound work of a PMM. I spent more ......Read More
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Div Manickam
Div Manickam
Mentor : Career | Leadership | Product MarketingDecember 6
Today, portfolio, platform, ecosystem and suite are used interchangeably depending on the use case or scenario. Every technology company wants to be a platform today that encompasses multiple products/services/offerings.  * Portfolio is a collection of products, industries, solutions, and servi......Read More
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Liza Sperling
Liza Sperling
Upwork Head Of Product MarketingFebruary 17
In general, I don't think you can determine that a platform approach makes sense or begin developing platform positioning and messaging until you know more about your product(s) than just capabilities. First I’d develop positioning and messaging for your product(s), including clearly defining you......Read More
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Alexa Scordato
Alexa Scordato
TikTok PMOAugust 14
Where to start? Every company has different policies for promotion criteria, but ultimately it needs to take into account 2 things: merit and business need. Business need has to come first. It means that there's a larger scope of a role that needs to be done - more responsibility and complexity w......Read More
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