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Eric Petitt
Glassdoor Senior Vice President Marketing • March 17
It starts with making sure the c-suite knows where you fit in to business outcomes. What are your OKR’s for the quarter, for the year? Is there a straight line between your priorities and the key opportunities for the company? Have you shared them? The second is making sure you are being heard. ......Read More
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How do you get the Csuite team to buy into a new pitch deck?
I just joined a new company, and their pitch decks are AWFUL and the sales teams are losing deals because of poor pitches. I'm working with a few key stakeholders to create better pitch decks, but several CSuite team members are apprehensive about trying something new because we'll be filing for IPO soon. They'd rather be consistently bad, then differently good.
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Eric Petitt
Glassdoor Senior Vice President Marketing • March 17
If I was an exec at your company, I’d want to understand what is awful about this pitch (share research, client feedback?), what evidence you can provide that it is hurting my business (do an a/b pilot?), and what you think good looks like (comparative/competitive examples?). If you brought that ......Read More
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Ajit Ghuman
Twilio Director of Product Management - Pricing & Packaging, CXP • September 8
It's hard. Real hard. Many PMMs make the mistake of starting with messaging. This is a no-no. Messaging comes last and just puts words behind what was already decided. You have to nail this in sequential order. 1. First comes strategy 2. Then comes positioning 3. And finally comes me......Read More
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How is your Product Marketing team structured?
By product line, segment, function or by objective (ie. revenue retention, product engagement, etc?
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Mike Polner
Discord Head of Marketing • December 12
Great question! I think about this one a lot...First off, it’s important to callout that there is no perfect org structure :) In general, you have to identify what you’re optimizing towards and what structure will give you the highest chance to get there. For Eats PMM, we’ve always kept a fai......Read More
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Jeff Rezabek
IRONSCALES Director of Product Marketing • April 10
As a PMM, you'll need to make many impactful, cross-functional relationships in your organization. Demand Generation (or Growth) is one of them. PMM relies on demand generation to provide data on how ads/messaging are performing, while demand generation relies on PMM to target messaging and perso......Read More
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Gregg Miller
PandaDoc VP of Product Marketing & Brand • October 8
At Zapier I approached this by starting with a mission statement to describe why our team exists and the work we aim to uniquely do for the company: “PMM exists to maximize Zapier’s market opportunities by (1) clarifying where we win and (2) driving GTM strategy for product success.” I then defin......Read More
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Gregg Miller
PandaDoc VP of Product Marketing & Brand • October 8
I’m assuming this question is about moving from a focus on the “last mile” of the go-to-market process entailing sales enablement and product launches to more “upstream” go-to-market strategy activities like identifying market opportunities, defining target segments in the market, partnering with......Read More
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Gregg Miller
PandaDoc VP of Product Marketing & Brand • October 8
30 days: Balance being an absolute sponge and learning by doing. Be a sponge by reading every doc you can get your hands on (enablement materials, case studies, team quarterly/annual plans, research studies, etc.), talking to as many prospects and customers as possible, and scheduling 1:1s with b......Read More
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What does your product marketing team org structure look like?
Do you simply have Product Marketers by product/portfolio? Do you have a release communications manager? Someone in sales enablement? What other roles exist in your product marketing teams today?
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Kristen Ribero
Greenplaces VP Marketing • July 18
In my experience, it varies based on your product portfolio/customer segments... When my company had only 1 product we were separated by function (i.e. pricing/packaging, sales enablement, product launches, market research, etc.), but in other companies we were focused on segment (enterprise ......Read More
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How do you develop a one-pager for analyst firms like Gartner to convince them about your product?
The objective is to push the product up to the personalization leadership quadrant. If I were to give more information to the analyst firm, how should I present it and how to go about creating one.
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Jackie Palmer
Pendo.io VP Product Marketing • April 4
I don't know that I would recommend using a one-pager. In my experience, analysts are not going to read a document you send them unsolicited. The best approach would be to schedule some inquiries and briefings with the analysts as I've described in other answers. Then once you've had your briefin......Read More
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