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Raman Sharma

Raman Sharma

Vice President, Product Marketing, Confluent

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Raman Sharma
Confluent Vice President, Product Marketing3y
I have seen this done differently in different organizations. There is no right or wrong way. However, I firmly believe that the Product Marketer should own the narrative...
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7878 Views
Raman Sharma
Confluent Vice President, Product Marketing3y
[Warning] Extremely Opinionated Zone starts now :) Value Proposition answers the question of whether buying your product is a good value exchange for the customer/prospe...
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4298 Views
Raman Sharma
Confluent Vice President, Product Marketing3y
I am a big fan of writing examples. Writing crisp customer-facing content (blog posts, data sheets, whitepapers, product pages, etc.) is essential for any Product Marke...
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2265 Views
Raman Sharma
Confluent Vice President, Product Marketing3y
In my opinion, a big part of Product Marketing is storytelling - connecting the customers' and prospects' desires and pain points to the capabilities of your products and...
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1660 Views
Raman Sharma
Confluent Vice President, Product Marketing3y
My philosophy on this is that PMMs should almost be embedded into their counterpart Product/Engineering teams. Schedule or scope changes shouldn't come to them as a surpr...
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1587 Views
Raman Sharma
Confluent Vice President, Product Marketing3y
I might have a slightly controversial take on this one. I think if you are in the business of marketing products to developers, you have to learn the trade a little bit...
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1356 Views
Raman Sharma
Confluent Vice President, Product Marketing3y
A brand is not a logo. It is not a catchy tagline. It is not a color or font scheme. It is not the visual imagery. It is not the writing style guideline. It is the sum to...
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1188 Views
Raman Sharma
Confluent Vice President, Product Marketing5mo
There is no universally prescribed cadence for this. Ideally this should be continuous but I think sharing (or resharing) customer feedback when Product/engineering teams...
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880 Views
Raman Sharma
Confluent Vice President, Product Marketing5mo
It depends on the go to market motion of the company. In self-serve businesses, PMMs can play a more direct role in engaging with customers, gathering and synthesizing fe...
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731 Views
Raman Sharma
Confluent Vice President, Product Marketing5mo
In my opinion, Product Marketing primarily is a GTM function. It is critical for PMMs to be deeper (than average) on products and audience, but this knowledge is to be us...
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Vice President, Product Marketing at Confluent
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