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If It Doesn’t Have Customer Value First, FAHGETTABOUDIT!

Product Management University

Don’t start with products, start with user jobs that most need improvement and product priority decisions will be a lot easier. Product Marketing This is where the magic happens. They’ll assume your products are great. Sales & Pre-Sales Same play as marketing, just in real-time. Easy, right?

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The Most Basic Rule of Product Positioning – It’s Easy

Product Management University

I learned a lot about product positioning long before I ever stepped into a product marketing role. I think of demos as verbal product positioning. In my young naivete, I just figured some people liked my products and some didn’t. That’s where I figured out the number one rule of product positioning.

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Should Product Positioning and Sales Narratives be Different?

Product Management University

Does your product positioning need to be different than your sales narratives? 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!

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How To Climb The Product Marketing Career Ladder Faster

Product Management University

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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How Product Management & Product Marketing Lead From a Position of Strength

Product Management University

That brings us to the subject of influence among product management and product marketing teams. Those who possess more market knowledge wield far more influence than those who don’t. And that market knowledge is the key to leading from a position of strength. Market Knowledge Defined. Imagine This.

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Top 10: Why Salespeople Don’t Use Corporate Positioning Decks

Product Management University

Directly from many salespeople (clients) over the past 20 years, here are the most popular responses (in no particular order) to the question, “Why don’t you use the corporate positioning deck? Here’s the problem with most positioning presentations that come from corporate marketing. “ Too much fluff.

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Solutions Marketing vs. Product Marketing: One Big Difference

Product Management University

A lot of people think solutions marketing is just a fancy term for product marketing, especially since the term solution has been so overused. In a product marketing model, products are the star. In a solutions marketing model, the star is the buyer’s vision for success. What Is Solutions Marketing?