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Derek Frome

Derek Frome

Vice President Marketing, Ouster

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Derek Frome
Ouster Vice President Marketing8y
To me, a solution is a prescriptive collection of products and features that solve a well-defined problem for your customer. A product is anything you could conceivably s...
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Derek Frome
Ouster Vice President Marketing8y
Painted door tests are your friend here (google it). You could create two or three landing pages with different message variants, each of which leads to a "request access...
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Derek Frome
Ouster Vice President Marketing8y
I'll take a more extreme position on this question. You're setting yourself up for failure by asking us how to "defend" your messaging. Instead, I'd ask you to listen to ...
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Derek Frome
Ouster Vice President Marketing8y
I'm going to take a somewhat contrarian view on this and say that in order to really break through in a crowded market, it takes more than clever messaging (though that n...
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Derek Frome
Ouster Vice President Marketing8y
Twilio, splunk, nginx, newrelic are good examples.
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Derek Frome
Ouster Vice President Marketing8y
For sales messaging, I haven’t encountered anything better than “Command of the Message” which you can google.
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Derek Frome
Ouster Vice President Marketing8y
+1 to that James and I'd add that targeting a specific type of business user can work if that business user has outsized influence relative to their title, e.g. software ...
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Derek Frome
Ouster Vice President Marketing8y
Mike's answer is spot on. Since you've been laid off 5 times in 10 years though, I'll add one other thought. It's possible that you're focusing on outputs, not outcomes. ...
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Derek Frome
Ouster Vice President Marketing8y
You're trying to figure out why they bought your product, what materials and conversations were most useful in their process, and setting them up for a case study down th...
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Derek Frome
Ouster Vice President Marketing8y
In my opinion, this is the wrong question to be asking. A much better objective would be to aim for a promotion, not a pay raise. Of course, promotions carry pay raises, ...
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Credentials & Highlights
Vice President Marketing at Ouster.io
Product Marketing AMA Contributor
Lives In San Francisco, California
Knows About Building a Product Marketing Team, Messaging, Platform and Solutions Product Marketin...more