Mind the Product

JUNE 18, 2019

Tech billionaire Marc Andreessen has been credited with bringing the term “product/market fit” into the mainstream lexicon in 2007. During my dealings with investors and product veterans, I’ve often heard that you can always feel when product/market fit is happening. Usual Benchmarks to Measure Product/Market Fit.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The easiest way to think of product marketing vs. portfolio marketing is the age-old motto, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Your portfolio has more market and customer value than the sum of the products. What is Product Marketing? What is Portfolio Marketing?

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

If you’re looking to climb the product marketing career ladder faster, here are five things you can do that’ll accelerate your climb. Track Record of Year-Over-Year Product Revenue Growth Not to state the obvious here, but product revenue is always top the priority. I came into a product marketing role from pre-sales.

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Alchemer Mobile

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

If you need background location access for your app to work, you need to do a fantastic job of messaging this particular need and you might want to prompt people to let them know you are tracking them in the background. So, why does this matter? These are just three of the bigger changes coming with iOS 13.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Consider the fact that portfolio marketing just might be your ticket to strategic product marketing in its purest form, making everything a lot easier with better results. What is Portfolio Marketing? Your marketing messages and sales narratives always lead with the strategic customer value of the portfolio.

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Product Management University

JULY 1, 2024

If I were building a product marketing organization from the ground up, I’d consider myself lucky. Most product marketing leaders inherit a team and then face the task of shaping it to meet their ideal make-up and the desired goals of the organization. You’re sandwiched right between product management and sales.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

That’s why some of Intercom’s first marketing hires were product marketers and why we’ve had a “seat at the table” from the early days of the company. . Product marketing looks different in every company, but one common trend is that many product marketing managers (PMMs) feel undervalued.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The Lean Product Playbook Summary?—?How How to Find Product-Market Fit “Main reason why most of the products fail is due to lack of product-market fit.” ~Dan Dan Olsen Product-Market Fit is inarguably one of the main factors deciding on product success or failure. And how to achieve it?

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Storytelling skills for product management and product marketing are essential because without them, the value context (why the market cares) of what you’re building, marketing and selling is completely masked. Enroll in Product Management University On-Demand and learn new skills on your own terms.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

What is a messaging strategy? A messaging strategy is a marketing framework /plan that outlines how your brand communicates its key messages and unique selling proposition to its target audience. Why should you have a solid messaging strategy? Let’s look at how that’s done! User persona example.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Product marketing roadmaps aren’t a staple in most B2B organizations, but there are a host of reasons they should be. The biggest reason metaphorically speaking, is they willingly “fence the salesforce” into your most lucrative markets and give them a shorter path to meeting sales quotas and revenue goals.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 12, 2024

They may abandon the page if the messaging and positioning are confusing or contradictory. Anthony Pierri knows this, and after helping over 200 businesses improve their homepage, he’s hosting the talk “ How to Rewrite Your Homepage With Sharper Positioning & Messaging ” on October 8th. Register now. Book a seat.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 1, 2024

Product marketing is the process of bringing a product to market, and a well-curated product marketing strategy is key to understanding customer needs and driving adoption. TL;DR A product marketing strategy is a roadmap for how a new product will be positioned, priced, and marketed.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 22, 2024

A product marketing framework is like a compass that guides you through the complex, fast-paced world of SaaS. From initial launch to ongoing product management , this framework acts as a map towards sustainable growth. In this article, we dive deep into what a product marketing framework is and explore its essential components.

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Userpilot

JULY 29, 2024

Looking for the best product marketing campaigns to inspire your next project? We’ve curated 16 of the most innovative product campaigns from industry leaders like Userpilot, HubSpot, and Spotify, among others, that will spark your creativity and help you create campaigns that drive product growth.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 8, 2018

Web businesses searching for product market fit think they can follow this philosophy just by shipping code. But shipping code doesn’t mean that you’re making any significant product improvements. Similarly you can make undeniable improvements to parts of your product and get no response or appreciation for it.

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 1, 2018

By John Zilch – It can be fun doing things that don’t scale in the early days of a product or business. Whether it’s testing product-market fit, marketing messaging or innovation options, teams can be creative as they fine tune their business model.

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Userpilot

JULY 10, 2024

Businesses invest heavily in product marketing through webinars, blog posts, and video content for a reason – it gets them notable results. If you’re looking to start or improve your SaaS product marketing strategy, this is the article to read. Both are vital for SaaS success.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Yury Oleynik is the VP of Product Management at HiveMQ. Founded and headquartered in Landshut, Germany, HiveMQ empowers businesses to transform with the most trusted MQTT platform (a messaging protocol used for connecting sensors and devices, such as in the Internet of Things). Yury’s next step?

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 19, 2023

With that as the backdrop, there’s a good chance all of your launch content and messaging follows the theme of the headline in the press release. In other words, it’s entirely possible your marketing launch isn’t telling your target customers why they should care about something that in all liklihood, has value to them.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Intercom’s Kate O’Hanlon recently caught up with Mark to talk about his approach to scaling, and why it’s a mistake to think that the formula for success is just about getting product-market fit and then adding sales reps. . The framework consists of three elements: product-market fit, go-to-market fit, and growth and moat.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 18, 2021

To understand a bit more about the launch, we’ve gathered some of the folks behind it: Thomas Creighton de Farias – Senior Product Education Producer. Orinna Weaver – Senior Product Marketing Manager. Rati Zvirawa – Product Manager. Tanya Sivo – Product Designer. Getting the messaging right.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 19, 2021

Customers are then able to access the Apptentive product suite to send ratings prompts, survey customers for product information, use Message Center for customer service, send notes to drive positive outcomes, and push customers to upgrade to the latest version of their app.

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2024

Overlapping responsibilities and conflicting priorities are just a couple of the many friction points between product managers and product marketing managers – leading to inefficient workflows and potential product failures. Product marketing managers focus on getting the product in the right hands.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Consider using surveys to gather feedback on a new feature, open-ended text fields to learn more about your customers’ engagement experiences, or proactively reach out with messages to encourage customers to engage. The insights you gather should inform your product roadmap and rally your development team around a single point: the customer.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Customers are then able to access the Apptentive product suite to send ratings prompts, survey customers for product information, use Message Center for customer service, send notes to drive positive outcomes, and push customers to upgrade to the latest version of their app. We all know and love Slack.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Lisa began her career in data science and spent four years as a data scientist at Airship , a marketing and messaging automation company. During her tenure as a data scientist, Lisa built two predictive products. Within marketing, a “channel” is a medium through which to deliver messages such as push notifications or email.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2021

When we created our best practices guide to using Product Tours , we interviewed relevant teams – like our Product Marketing and Customer Engagement teams – to learn how they were using Product Tours to proactively inform, educate, and onboard new users. And chances are your team are using it in creative ways.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2018

being willfully naive about marketing. Matt Hodges , originally our Director of Product Marketing, was the first Intercom hire with the actual word “marketing” in his title. In his LinkedIn message trying to recruit Matt, our CEO Eoghan gushed, “The product almost completely sells itself.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 2, 2018

Earlier this year, Intercom decided to run an integrated marketing campaign that would speak to the value we can bring to sales and marketing teams. Our Demand Generation, Product Marketing and Brand Design teams collaborated to produce the messaging and our Brand Design team brought it to life.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

If they read your message and think, “That’s interesting,” you’re already halfway there. Ensure that you’re talking to the right people with the right message about a problem they actually care about solving. Share a shocking insight or counterintuitive observation that’ll make them stop and think.

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Innovatemap

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

As tech companies navigate an increasingly AI-driven landscape, the role of differentiated, customer-centric messaging has never been more critical. What is the Product Marketing Alliance Summit? What’s next for Product Marketers? What did we learn?

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Remember, your portfolio vision is the ultimate business outcome customers get from your portfolio, and that’s the key to creating a strategic value message for your portfolio. So even when buyers are only looking to buy one of your financial solutions, the lead message is always “greater financial flexibility to…strategic priorities.”

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Product Management University

JULY 18, 2023

The short and simple answer is no, but it’s highly dependent on how your product positioning is constructed. As a former product marketing manager, I know this all too well and was guilty in the first degree! Here’s what I can tell you now that I train product marketing managers and sales/pre-salespeople.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

While certainly not a product category most of us operate it, it showcases the kind of inspirational feeling a successful product walkthrough leaves your audience with. Strategy: Product/Market Fit Hypotheses. A compelling strategy delineates exactly how your product will dominate its market.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 15, 2023

When you combine a simple portfolio SWOT analysis with market growth forecasts, the data paints a very clear and factual picture of your most lucrative market segments in pecking order. Those market segment priorities are just as valuable for product marketing and sales as they are product management.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

He coined the term “growth hacking,” invented the ICE prioritization framework, was one of the earliest people to use freemium as a growth lever, and, most famously, developed the Sean Ellis Test for product-market fit (which a large percentage of founders use today to track if they’ve found PMF).

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