Chase Wilson

CEO of Flywheel, Flywheel

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CEO of Flywheel, the all-in-one growth platform

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How do you tier your launches, and what KPI's do you assign to each tier?

Chase Wilson

Flywheel CEO of Flywheel • May 26

Most product marketers I've worked with are tuned in to new feature releases or creating effective comms for upcoming product improvements. For a product launch, however, it's almost always given the highest priority automatically. Most of the work is done to make sure the product itself is posit......Read More

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How do you increase the Product Marketing function's ability to be a more strategic player in the company and not just the launch arm of the feature factory?

Chase Wilson

Flywheel CEO of Flywheel • May 26

I hear this pain quite a bit. Many people would likely propose working hard to have a "seat at the table". To me this isn't quite enough. A seat at the table will give you insight into launches, but not necessarily any real sway towards changing decisions. I believe product marketers need to e......Read More

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Can you please outline a "Launch Framework" and go through an example of implementing such a framework for one of the companies for which you have worked?

Chase Wilson

Flywheel CEO of Flywheel • May 26

Launch frameworks vary wildly depending on some fundamental questions: * Is your company well-known or resource-rich? * Are you B2C or B2B? * Do you have a Freemium offering? * How long do you expect the sales cycle to be? Once you establish answers to these questions you can more effective......Read More

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How do you assess organizational readiness ahead of a product launch?

Chase Wilson

Flywheel CEO of Flywheel • May 26

Great question! For the Jira Work Management launch I was actually the first team hire. This was really important for the dynamic of our team and we eshewed the common "triad" for a "quad". That is to say that I helped design the product and no large decisions were made without my input, whether ......Read More

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What are some of the best practices you use to enable sales before a huge launch?

Chase Wilson

Flywheel CEO of Flywheel • May 26

I was lucky enough to manage a sales team at my previous role and hopefully can provide some insight here that were informed by that experience. But, it may be a bit controversial! I'd say that most sales enablement campaigns deliver: * Competitor battlecards * Product feature talking points ......Read More

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What are action items that you always include on your product launch checklist?

Chase Wilson

Flywheel CEO of Flywheel • May 26

This has depended fairly dramatically depending on the size of the product launch, how ready the product is for prime-time, and the scale of the company! For example, for my Jira Work Management launch we needed to make sure that: * Purchasing and provisioning pathways were live * Support / sa......Read More

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For a new product launch that is under development, when is the right time to start planning and meeting with the different channels?

Chase Wilson

Flywheel CEO of Flywheel • May 26

I hate to answer with "it depends", but it does! Atlassian has ~25 cross-functional teams that I worked with as the launch came closer. Some of those teams required 4 months of lead time to make sure everything was done on time! Others came in during the last few weeks. I found that it was import......Read More

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What are the key things to consider post-launch? What standard metrics are important to track to measure success and what teams (and at what cadence) are important to connect with post-launch?

Chase Wilson

Flywheel CEO of Flywheel • May 26

I've seen this vary from top-of-funnel metrics down to MRR depending on the goal of the product. Aspects that I believe impact the KPI you ultimately choose are: * What does this product mean for your company? * Is it awareness of your company in the market? * Is immediate revenue impo......Read More