Jessica Scrimale

Senior Director of Product Management, Oracle

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What's your best practice for making sure competitive, personas, and market research info is always up-to-date, moving from product marketing to sales materials?

Jessica Scrimale

Oracle Senior Director of Product Management • August 18

This is tough, but you can prevent foundational PMM assets from going stale by having (1) defined processes (e.g., establishing which components of your market intelligence are most important to update and on what cadence, and using what inputs), (2) quarterly prioritization to revisit key assets......Read More

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How do you create a sales playbook that gets used by sales?

Jessica Scrimale

Oracle Senior Director of Product Management • August 18

Sales is most likely to use an asset that product marketing creates if they influence the asset as it comes together. I like to create a working team with a cross-section of sellers to provide input and feedback on the playbook. Make sure your playbook is aligned to the sales methodology that you......Read More

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What are some ways you can build credibility with Sales, ensuring that they will leverage your messaging and materials?

Jessica Scrimale

Oracle Senior Director of Product Management • August 18

This is all about relationships, credibility/expertise, and your ability to help sellers. Once you can demonstrate that you can help them by bringing your perspective to what they're doing to make them smarter, more consultative, more well-informed, etc., the more they'll trust you and the better......Read More

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What is the most successful way you've seen marketing teams launch sales enablement material with sales teams?

Jessica Scrimale

Oracle Senior Director of Product Management • August 18

The most successful internal launches are often big ones (i.e., rolling out a new product or sales methodology such as solution selling), and in my experience, they include: (1) an executive sponsor (2) alignment with business priorities and (3) internal momentum. 1. An executive sponsor is ke......Read More

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What metrics determine whether or not sales enablement materials created by Product Marketing are both actually being used and are helping to win deals and shorten sales cycles?

Jessica Scrimale

Oracle Senior Director of Product Management • August 18

Internal sales surveys or qualitative feedback (e.g., 'what decks do you use when pitching?' 'what assets are most helpful?') can work. If you have an internal sales wiki built where you host assets, you may be able to access analytics about how many visits/pageviews/downloads you're seeing acros......Read More

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How do you disseminate competitive positioning to your sales team?

Jessica Scrimale

Oracle Senior Director of Product Management • August 18

I've seen this done a number of different ways. Typically we have dedicated time with the field to train them on the positioning. You can get buy-in from the head of sales and enablement (if you have one) to schedule a standalone session that you run to help train the field on the positioning. ......Read More

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How do you tell a multi-product story through sales collateral?

Jessica Scrimale

Oracle Senior Director of Product Management • August 18

Ooh, this is a fun one and a big one! This is solution selling, and it starts by understanding buyer needs and pain points. Uncover the pain points your buyers are facing, and then map outcomes that your company can deliver on - not individual products - to those pain points to form an outline fo......Read More

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For a product marketer who only spends a portion of their time working on sales enablement with little face-to-face time with sales, what's the best way to get buy in from a large sales team?

Jessica Scrimale

Oracle Senior Director of Product Management • August 18

Find a few successful, well-respected sales reps and cultivate strong relationships with them. Get their input on what you're working on, ask for advice on how (and with whom!) to socialize your work with, and use that political savvy to focus on the key stakeholders within sales that have more i......Read More