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Thomas Dong

Thomas Dong

VP of Product Marketing, Agora

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Thomas Dong
Agora VP of Product Marketing | Formerly NetSpring, Heap, Couchbase, OpenText, IBM5y
I have been fortunate to work for CMOs who have a firm grasp and strong working knowledge of all aspects of marketing. Often times you run into CMOs who only know brand, ...
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Thomas Dong
Agora VP of Product Marketing | Formerly NetSpring, Heap, Couchbase, OpenText, IBM5y
Whoever controls the budget for the website owns the strategy, and that is typically Demand Gen since the website is the foundation of digital marketing. However a corpor...
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Thomas Dong
Agora VP of Product Marketing | Formerly NetSpring, Heap, Couchbase, OpenText, IBM5y
Become the driver of GTM strategy. Going back to the corporate trinity: Sales, Marketing and Engineering, a sound GTM strategy informs Engineering on what to build (roadm...
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Thomas Dong
Agora VP of Product Marketing | Formerly NetSpring, Heap, Couchbase, OpenText, IBM5y
There are many stakeholders when it comes to competitive intelligence and aligning messaging and product strategy with competitive differentiation. I have found an effect...
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Thomas Dong
Agora VP of Product Marketing | Formerly NetSpring, Heap, Couchbase, OpenText, IBM5y
While I see PMM as the flywheel of the corporate trinity: Sales, Marketing and Engineering, and view our influence and relationship with all as important, the one stakeho...
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Thomas Dong
Agora VP of Product Marketing | Formerly NetSpring, Heap, Couchbase, OpenText, IBM5y
PMM is a highly collaborative role and I've found that if you define a DACI model: Driver, Approver, Contributors, and Informed, you can help remove some of that ambiguit...
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Thomas Dong
Agora VP of Product Marketing | Formerly NetSpring, Heap, Couchbase, OpenText, IBM5y
Very simply become a credible source of synthesized market and competitive intelligence. I'm being very deliberate about the word "synthesized", because in understanding ...
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Thomas Dong
Agora VP of Product Marketing | Formerly NetSpring, Heap, Couchbase, OpenText, IBM5y
Set a consistent expectation for what messaging entails. The best way to do that is to establish a common messaging platform you can use regardless if you are messaging a...
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Thomas Dong
Agora VP of Product Marketing | Formerly NetSpring, Heap, Couchbase, OpenText, IBM5y
It's not so much surprises, as it is the scope of opportunities to improve sales and marketing effectiveness. PMM generally brings stability and consistency to messaging,...
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Credentials & Highlights
VP of Product Marketing at Agora
Formerly NetSpring, Heap, Couchbase, OpenText, IBM
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Product Marketing AMA Contributor
Studied at Princeton University
Lives In Los Altos, CA
Hobbies include Ice Hockey
Knows About Building a Product Marketing Team, Go-To-Market Strategy, Messaging, Category Creatio...more
Speaks English, French, Cantonese Chinese