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Courtney Kubitza

Courtney Kubitza

Head of Product Marketing, Accountants, Gusto

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Courtney Kubitza
Gusto Head of Product Marketing, Accountants1mo
The biggest one I keep seeing, and honestly keep having to fight against myself, is launching for the product instead of the customer. Teams often get so excited about wh...
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Courtney Kubitza
Gusto Head of Product Marketing, Accountants1mo
We launched a feature that we were really proud of, significant engineering investment, strong internal excitement, and the adoption was flat in the first 30 days. What ...
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Courtney Kubitza
Gusto Head of Product Marketing, Accountants1mo
The first two weeks after launch I'm basically living in a war room mentality. Daily standup with product, CS, and sales to surface anything weird including support ticke...
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Courtney Kubitza
Gusto Head of Product Marketing, Accountants1mo
For B2B, where most of my experience lives, nothing beats warm channels: existing customer email, CS-led outreach, and sales conversations. The hardest-won lesson is that...
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Courtney Kubitza
Gusto Head of Product Marketing, Accountants1mo
A few specific tactics that have worked:First, establish UTM discipline before launch, not after. Every asset, every email, every campaign needs tagged URLs so you can ac...
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714 Views
Courtney Kubitza
Gusto Head of Product Marketing, Accountants1mo
Honestly, the tools matter less than the discipline, but the game has changed a lot with AI, and so the answer today already looks different from the one that I would hav...
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700 Views
Courtney Kubitza
Gusto Head of Product Marketing, Accountants1mo
I'll be honest about this one: timeline compression and internal alignment are the two I fight every single time, no matter how good the process is.Timeline compression h...
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687 Views
Courtney Kubitza
Gusto Head of Product Marketing, Accountants1mo
Sales enablement, hands down.Everyone knows they need to do it. Almost nobody does it well under resource pressure. A good enablement program isn't just a sales deck and ...
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676 Views
Courtney Kubitza
Gusto Head of Product Marketing, Accountants1mo
This is one of the highest-leverage things you can do and it's chronically underfunded.I start recruiting beta reference customers the moment a product enters closed beta...
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Credentials & Highlights
Head of Product Marketing, Accountants at Gusto
Product Marketing AMA Contributor
Knows About Messaging, Messaging Strategy, Go-To-Market Strategy, Product Marketing Skills, Produ...more