Userpilot

DECEMBER 19, 2022

However, getting the attention of your target customers with B2B marketing strategies is a lot harder. This article will teach you the difference between B2C and B2B marketing, go over a few B2B examples, and walk through 15 proven strategies that can take your product marketing to the next level!

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Userpilot

MAY 3, 2022

How is enterprise SaaS marketing different compared from acquiring and retaining users for an SMB? Inbound works really well for smaller SaaS businesses, whether B2B or B2C. Pair that with in-app communication and you’ve got a pretty good marketing strategy. What is enterprise SaaS marketing?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In this guest post, Hazel Raoult delves into the key differences for product managers working in enterprise businesses. [.] Read more » The post Why product management in the enterprise is different appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

Expanding on a recent post ( Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies ), I’ve been seeing lots of maker teams (product, engineering, design) struggling to form product strategies without a company strategy to hang them on.    If these strategies don’t hang together, we each hang separately.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

It might be the same core product, but it’s a completely different strategy. “The shift from serving just consumers to serving consumers and companies is a massive one” For Udemy, investing in a B2B arm seemed too obvious, and too good, an opportunity to ignore.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. But why is working in enterprise software now different?

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

Journey Into the World of Strategy. The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. After all, many product managers tend to treat a strategy as something that’s scared and driven top-down from the executive management level.

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Product Talk

APRIL 21, 2021

I’ve worked with teams in all industries—regulated industries, consumer companies, B2B companies. And when we think about growth, if you work in a B2B context, I’m guessing that your company is really focused on landing large enterprise clients. What strategy do we go after? Who’s being left out?

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

As we saw last week, however, many of these emerging new shopping habits were already starting to form long before the pandemic, thanks to the rising influence of SaaS and B2B on retail. Learning from B2B. Des Traynor, our Chief Strategy Officer and Co-founder, explains the far-reaching implications of the shift to subscriptions : .

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Product Management Unpacked

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

I have spent 30 years in the enterprise software space, as a founder, entrepreneur, investor and board member. In my view, the disciplines that drive product success – strategy, planning, marketing, development and operations – are also critical for company success. Why the MS in Product Management degree?

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The HiveMQ MQTT Platform is designed to connect, communicate, and control IoT data under real-world stress and is the proven enterprise standard. In his role on the leadership team, he is responsible for shaping and executing their product strategy. In many cases we can’t reach them in-app because of the nature of our product.”

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

After understanding specific user personas who might actually need the technology (which frankly, could be very clunky when worn frequently), Google Glass then pivoted towards selling to enterprise customers. Two metrics that I’ve found useful for the Top of Funnel include: Conversion percentage from B2B demand generation marketing.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 16, 2024

He emphasizes that these activities vary based on context (large vs. small organizations, B2B vs. B2C, Agile vs. Waterfall). Waterfall) Product type (AI vs. non-AI products) Market focus (B2B vs. B2C) He emphasized that these contextual factors significantly impact a product manager’s role.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In our world, this would have been considered a great product strategy. If Ford’s strategy would have stayed at the highest level of “selling a car”, marketing could have only talked about the generic qualities of cars (get faster from one place to another, and don’t clean after your horse).

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Interested in building a B2B customer journey map? In this article, we’ll cover B2B customer journey stages, how to build a B2B customer journey map, and the right tools to use. In this article, we’ll cover B2B customer journey stages, how to build a B2B customer journey map, and the right tools to use.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 16, 2018

Product management requires product strategy. These are all key questions addressed as part of product strategy. To my surprise, the key need across my multiple products was to identify and drive the product strategy. Guest Post by: Marissa Fong (Mentee, Session 5, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Bill Gourlay].

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

B2B marketing automation helps businesses grow faster, while not breaking the bank. How do you effectively implement B2B marketing automation into your existing product marketing activities? In this article, we’ll cover: What B2B marketing automation is and how it benefits marketing and sales teams.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. Here is how it works. It’s time to grow.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 13, 2019

The first strategy of that next wave of growth is to expand your addressable market. In B2B, that is companies who start by selling to smaller businesses and then expand to mid-market and enterprise. Your strategy is as much what you do as what you don’t do”. Your strategy is as much what you do as what you don’t do.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Indeed, among our customers were B2C companies, small businesses, and large enterprises along with customers in places and industries well beyond Silicon Valley. Authoritative, actionable strategies on how to grow your business. A substitute for strategy or planning. Assessing progress on our strategy.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 29, 2024

He was also the first head of growth at Atlassian, where he led product for Jira Agile and built the first-ever B2B growth team. The best product managers go out of their way to prove themselves wrong, because finding the flaws in your thinking will lead to better decisions.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In B2B, product marketing is focused on articulating the value of individual products. Portfolio marketing in B2B is focused on articulating the value of your portfolio to vertical industry segments like retail, healthcare and manufacturing. Your portfolio has more market and customer value than the sum of the products.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It’s about adapting your marketing, product and go-to-market strategy to give your product the best chance at wide market penetration and adoption. In this context, your product launch strategy isn’t just a plan for launch execution. Your strategy should also account for the sales period after launch day.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Today we are talking about how to price B2B SaaS products, learning from pricing examples. Joining us is Marcos Rivera, the author of the new book Street Pricing: A Pricing Playlist for Hip Leaders in B2B SaaS. Big enterprises buy differently from individuals. 18:54] What’s another example of pricing strategy?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. An economic downturn, a war — you name it.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In B2B, it changes everything about how you build, market, sell and acquire customers. The consumerization of enterprise B2B products and services is in full swing. Re-Routing Your Growth Strategy: What Got You Here Won’t Get You There! The Maturation of B2B Product Management & Marketing: Are We Keeping Pace?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2020

A pattern I’ve seen 4 or 5 times seems worth describing, since other folks may be experiencing it: a very early-stage B2B/enterprise company brings on a full sales team before finding product/market fit. First, let’s recapping the basics of why we hire enterprise sales teams and what they do. “Always Be Closing!”

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 10, 2018

First zero in on a strategy for achieving your desired outcome , and then pick high quality metrics to validate your tests. They did an amazing job bringing that all the way up to hundreds of millions of users and then their products for the enterprise, like Paper, are all extensions of that core idea. Andrew: Totally.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Enterprise sales is a long game: In highly regulated industries or with large enterprise deals, expect timelines to stretch. No one knows your vision and product as deeply as you do. Use that knowledge to connect with potential customers. Salespeople can’t replicate the passion, vision, and insights you can offer.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Strategy: Product/Market Fit Hypotheses. A compelling strategy delineates exactly how your product will dominate its market. And that's what refining your strategy is all about. Design: Customer Discovery Insights.

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Gainsight

MAY 23, 2023

This aligns with the vendor’s view of Customer Success, particularly among its largely SaaS customer base, as something that should permeate across the enterprise. Many of our customers are basically going from, it’s a function, to, it’s a strategy.” It’s not just a team.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

One way or the other, if you are in B2B SaaS, this is a discussion-worthy topic. If you are in B2B SaaS, it is almost impossible to avoid the discussion, and rightfully so. Large enterprise deals tend to close better when there is a person involved, but we need to understand exactly why. Don’t decide based on the wrong reasons.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 2, 2019

Let’s identify a few underlying assumptions about how industrial hardware is designed/built/sold, then map those to B2B software products. Meanwhile, our competitors are picking their own improvement strategies. Industrial hardware and enterprise software can both be great business. Sound Byte.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

When considering VP Marketing hires, they push on positioning, messaging, MQL funnels, social media engagement, and broad marketing strategy. Without a clear hiring strategy and crisp criteria, interviewers naturally choose candidates most like themselves. So my bias is to look for B2B/enterprise experience for B2B companies.

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The Product Bistro

MAY 17, 2016

While it is not strictly a product management responsibility to define and implement a sales strategy, you likely do have a seat at the table during the discussions, and with it, some influence. Regardless of the structure, it will affect much of your strategy and roadmap. One Common Exception – Enterprise Software.

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The Product Guy

JULY 18, 2019

As my expertise grew, so did my exposure to the breadth of responsibilities expected of product management, such as marketing, strategy, and product vision, which culminated in my next role as an enterprise Product Owner at American Express. Product professionals should take inventory of their experiences, as I have. Better Decisions.

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