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Danny Sack

Danny Sack

Director Product Marketing, SAP

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Danny Sack
Danny Sack
Director Product Marketing, SAP
How do you ensure that product marketers you manage are creating great messaging, and hitting the right milestones?
If the marketing machine has been created correctly, this should be fairly measureable. In a prior role we had an excellent demand generation team who tracked how different messaging worked over time. We could run little A/B tests on our dotcom and outreach to see if any messages were particularl...more
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Danny Sack
Danny Sack
Director Product Marketing, SAP
Does your product marketing team sit in marketing, product management or someplace else?
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, they become capital P Product, lowercase m marketing managers (PmM). The focus is heavy on technical capabilities and you're goi...more
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Danny Sack
Danny Sack
Director Product Marketing, SAP
What would you need from your boss when you just join a new organization as a PMM leader?
Every time I join a new organization, I ask for the same things: * List of key contacts in the sales, marketing, and product teams * Key buyer/user personas * Existing product materials * KPIs for the team From there I construct a 30-60-90 day plan to meet people, learn the products, and cr...more
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Danny Sack
Danny Sack
Director Product Marketing, SAP
What's the easiest way for you to convey the value of product marketing?
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 essentially require everyone to have a technical/product expertise that just doesn't happen in larger orgs. The sales teams will j...more
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Danny Sack
Danny Sack
Director Product Marketing, SAP
What are the most important soft and hard skills Product Marketing Managers can build to become successful in their field going forward?
This is an interesting question. In my experience, the most important soft skills needed for PMMs are influence management, and public speaking skills.   Influence management would be getting people from outside of your department or team to work on your project. Good influence management is n...more
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Danny Sack
Danny Sack
Director Product Marketing, SAP
How do you think about your first 30/60/90 day goals when coming in as the Head of Product Marketing in a startup that didn't have product marketing before?
I'll "yes and" Gregg's answer and say that this will really vary by company size and complexity. I was at a startup where my 30-day goals included creating buyer personas and enabling the sales team to talk to the decision-makers. So it was more like a 10-20-30 day goals as described below.   ...more
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Director Product Marketing at SAP
Product Marketing AMA Contributor
Platform and Solutions Product Marketing
Lives In Chicago, Illinois
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