Jodi Innerfield
Senior Director, Product Marketing Launch Strategy, Salesforce
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Jodi Innerfield
Salesforce Senior Director, Product Marketing Launch Strategy • January 12
Tiering and t-shirt sizing a launch should be based on "how impactful is this to my customer and the company?" If it's a brand new product suite, a new offering in the market either for the company or the space, or a material investment/improvement from what exists today--that's a Tier 1, full-co......Read More
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Jodi Innerfield
Salesforce Senior Director, Product Marketing Launch Strategy • January 12
The goal of most B2B launches is revenue--but there are many other KPIs you can track besides how much revenue you've generated! Customer KPIs: These KPIs all tell me how much my launch resonates with my target customer. Pipe generation; lead generation/form fills on any key launch assets like ......Read More
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Jodi Innerfield
Salesforce Senior Director, Product Marketing Launch Strategy • January 12
Each geography is different, so don't treat geos as "one size fits all." Make sure you understand the nuances of the region you're launching in--what language resonates best in messaging? What channels might be different? How does the perception of your organization or product change based on geo......Read More
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Jodi Innerfield
Salesforce Senior Director, Product Marketing Launch Strategy • January 12
The channels you use depend upon the audience you're reaching. Where does your audience spend time? What channels have historically worked best for your organization or similar products? You can usually get a good sense of channels to activate based on persona research. Even if you're launching......Read More
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Jodi Innerfield
Salesforce Senior Director, Product Marketing Launch Strategy • January 12
First--well done for having a post-mortem! It's really easy to just get caught up in the next thing that comes along, but post-mortems are super important! This is your time to reflect on the launch planning, the launch itself, and whatever happens next. Launch Planning Reflection - Get feedba......Read More
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Jodi Innerfield
Salesforce Senior Director, Product Marketing Launch Strategy • January 12
Honestly, the sales team is going to do/say whatever they want. It's nearly impossible to enforce that a sales team says the exact messaging you want them to, or that they use the exact slides and resources you want them to. When we do further message testing and make refinements, I try and mak......Read More
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Jodi Innerfield
Salesforce Senior Director, Product Marketing Launch Strategy • January 12
For your launch to be a success, ideally you have completed a customer pilot so you have success stories for press; you've built a robust demo org for your sales teams so they can show customers the product; and you've spent time conducting internal and external research to make sure your message......Read More
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Jodi Innerfield
Salesforce Senior Director, Product Marketing Launch Strategy • January 12
Launching too soon is a major red flag--I wrote all about it in a recent post ! What distinguishes a "meh" product launch from a great product launch? 1 - Showing the product in your assets and launch material 2 - Having customer testimonials that your product is as good as you say it is 3 -......Read More
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Jodi Innerfield
Salesforce Senior Director, Product Marketing Launch Strategy • January 12
Demoing is SO important, yet unfortunately, we don't often have the product ready for sales teams to demo too far ahead of a launch. What we do in this situation is have PMs do enablement where they walk through the new features and functionality and answer questions. That way the field can see......Read More
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Jodi Innerfield
Salesforce Senior Director, Product Marketing Launch Strategy
PMM Interviews with Salesforce’s Senior Director of Product Marketing, Jodi Innerfield
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Salesforce is the world’s # 1 CRM platform and Jodi Innerfield is the Senior Director of PMM leading a team of product marketers and marketing operations specialists. Tune in to join the conversation as Nupur and Jodi discuss the desirable traits in PMM’s such as adaptability and top metrics new......more
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Senior Director, Product Marketing Launch Strategy at Salesforce
Top Product Marketing Mentor List
Product Marketing AMA Contributor
Top 10 Product Marketing Contributor
Lives In New York, NY
Knows About Go-To-Market Strategy, Messaging, Product Launches, Product Marketing KPI's, B2B Prod......more