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Ouster Vice President Marketing • 8y
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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Ouster Vice President Marketing • 8y
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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Ouster Vice President Marketing • 8y
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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Ouster Vice President Marketing • 8y
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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Ouster Vice President Marketing • 8y
Twilio, splunk, nginx, newrelic are good examples.
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Ouster Vice President Marketing • 8y
For sales messaging, I haven’t encountered anything better than “Command of the Message” which you can google.
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Ouster Vice President Marketing • 8y
+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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Ouster Vice President Marketing • 8y
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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Ouster Vice President Marketing • 8y
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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Ouster Vice President Marketing • 8y
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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