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John Hurley

John Hurley

Vice President Product Marketing, Amplitude

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John Hurley
John Hurley
Vice President Product Marketing, Amplitude
Do you have any tips for performing market research with limited resources—both manpower and financial?
I feel your pain!  - Templates - Prioritize with execs what will drive impact + Set expectations internal - Google alerts One other thing to think about...How can you use market research for multiple purposes...so much internal content that gets created can be tweaked and shifted by 20% to ...more
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John Hurley
John Hurley
Vice President Product Marketing, Amplitude
What is your philosophy when it comes to competitors? What constitutes a competitor, and what is the goal you have in mind when you conduct competitor analysis?
Here is the competitive intelligence mission statement I've used for several years (repeat from previous post but will add more detail).  “Define ourselves based on problems we solve and value we provide, not your competition. But also equip ourselves to stand out from competition and win agai...more
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John Hurley
John Hurley
Vice President Product Marketing, Amplitude
How do you use market research to inform priority verticals to go after in your go to market efforts?
Ensure verticalization aligns well with core competencies, market perception, ability to deliver and differentiation. If you do not clearly understand the definition of the target vertical, the trends in that vertical’s consumer or enterprise user market as well as the size of the opportunity, it...more
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John Hurley
John Hurley
Vice President Product Marketing, Amplitude
When do you use market research to inform decisions vs when do you use behavioral data?
Used on its own, market research is a reasonable tool for getting gaining and sharing knowledge on customers, markets, and competitors. What market research won't do is tell you if you have the right solution. For that, you need to run experiments to test if there's a good fit between the problem...more
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John Hurley
John Hurley
Vice President Product Marketing, Amplitude
What role does User Experience research play as the key driver for both product marketing and design teams to align behind the same end user needs?
What I love about product design teams is how differently they think and create. They tend to be really amazing at information design. PMM can create strong foundations – let's say user personas – and UX researchers and designers might totally reimagine how to display personas relative to their o...more
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John Hurley
John Hurley
Vice President Product Marketing, Amplitude
How do you delineate the responsibilities of market research between PMM and User Research? How can these teams best work together?
PMM can bring the perspective from beyond the user. What are the markets, influencers, our executives, analysts, and competitors saying. If PMM is the subject matter expert – if they have a mind map for all the places where knowledge lives inside and outside the organization, then PMM again is th...more
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John Hurley
John Hurley
Vice President Product Marketing, Amplitude
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?
Align on needs and get buy-in on the program from key stakeholders upfront, otherwise, you will just be reactive and the expectations will be that every request is handled and every asset is up to date. By setting a strategy upfront, defining the set of deliverables and the cadence at which they'...more
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John Hurley
John Hurley
Vice President Product Marketing, Amplitude
Before the product development stage, how do you present market and buyer insights to product? What documents does the PMM own at this stage?
I like to create what I call an Opportunity Assessment. Here is the general table of content for the presentation:  - Problem Hypothesis - Target Market - Market Opportunity - Business Metrics / Revenue Strategy - Competitive Landscape - Our Differentiated Solution - Basic Solution Requirements ...more
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John Hurley
John Hurley
Vice President Product Marketing, Amplitude
What role do market trends play in your wider market research program/thought process?
It's about grounding the organization in an understanding of the market opportunity, ecosystem, mindset, external factors impacting potential buyers. There's so many flavors with different goals...Market Sizing (whats the market attractiveness), Pricing research (how do we maximize business value...more
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John Hurley
John Hurley
Vice President Product Marketing, Amplitude
Would you recommend a SaaS startup's first marketing hire to be a PMM? What value does bringing on a product minded marketer early make?
PMM experience do make for great first marketing hires, especially in B2B. They tend to have a broad T-shape skill set. Depending on your goals and business, try to understand where your product marketing hire has "gone deep". They will likely have some focus on 2-3 of the following: packaging an...more
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Credentials & Highlights
Vice President Product Marketing at Amplitude
Product Marketing AMA Contributor
Market Research
Lives In San Francisco, California
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