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Gregg Miller
VP of Product Marketing, Oyster®
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Gregg Miller
Oyster® VP of Product Marketing • October 9
30 days: Balance being an absolute sponge and learning by doing. Be a sponge by reading every doc you can get your hands on (enablement materials, case studies, team quarterly/annual plans, research studies, etc.), talking to as many prospects and customers as possible, and scheduling 1:1s with b......Read More
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Gregg Miller
Oyster® VP of Product Marketing • October 9
There’s two main drivers I think about with respect to org structure. Important caveat on the below being I primarily have worked at smaller organizations where org structures across the company are often highly nimble. 1. How established the function is - When the PMM function is new, oftentim......Read More
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Gregg Miller
Oyster® VP of Product Marketing • October 9
At Zapier I approached this by starting with a mission statement to describe why our team exists and the work we aim to uniquely do for the company: “PMM exists to maximize Zapier’s market opportunities by (1) clarifying where we win and (2) driving GTM strategy for product success.” I then defin......Read More
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Gregg Miller
Oyster® VP of Product Marketing • October 9
One of the biggest surprises is that the vast majority of people at smaller companies have little idea of what product marketing is. Your new colleagues may have never worked directly — or even indirectly — with product marketers before. This means that you as the new head of PMM have a much bigg......Read More
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Gregg Miller
Oyster® VP of Product Marketing • October 9
I’m assuming this question is about moving from a focus on the “last mile” of the go-to-market process entailing sales enablement and product launches to more “upstream” go-to-market strategy activities like identifying market opportunities, defining target segments in the market, partnering with......Read More
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Gregg Miller
Oyster® VP of Product Marketing • May 16
This will vary depending on how important a given product is as well as its degree of complexity, but for a decently robust feature/product I think you'd want some of the following as a minimum. [Internal] Product one-pager: Succinct asset that explains what customer pain points we're solving ......Read More
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Gregg Miller
Oyster® VP of Product Marketing • May 16
I'll try and answer each of these three questions separately. * My philosophy is short and sweet. If you're making battlecards longer than one page or using size 5 font it's going to be impossible for your sales reps to get the high impact at a glance insight they need. Battle cards work ......Read More
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Gregg Miller
Oyster® VP of Product Marketing • September 30
GTM kickoff meeting: It is absolutely essential to get all the right stakeholders in the same room to get on the same page around what we're doing, why, by when, and with which owners. I like to have my team run these meetings roughly three months before a given launch and use them as an opportun......Read More
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Gregg Miller
Oyster® VP of Product Marketing • February 12
It's all about doing great work that matters to the business, matters to your partner, and fits into the context of the relationship! The playbook below can help get the ball rolling. Sorry for the long answer, but it's a complex question with big implications for your ability to add value as a P......Read More
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Gregg Miller
Oyster® VP of Product Marketing • October 9
There’s definitely core management competencies you have to focus on that are true of any role which I won’t go into (e.g. developing your people, advocating for them and backing them up, etc.). But I think something we as product marketing leaders need to focus on is making the job exciting and ......Read More
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Credentials & Highlights
VP of Product Marketing at Oyster®
Product Marketing AMA Contributor
Lives In Los Angeles, California
Knows About Product Launches, Product Marketing Career Path, Stakeholder Management, Sales Enable......more