Episode 9: How your GTM motion impacts marketing strategy
Mar 21, 2023
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Emily Kramer, former marketer at Asana and Carta, shares insights on building high-growth B2B companies. Topics include different GTM motions, hiring strategies, challenges of a hybrid startup, role of product marketers, and the importance of conversion rates in marketing strategies.
Understanding your go-to-market motion is crucial for shaping your marketing strategy.
Different go-to-market motions require different marketing strategies.
Deep dives
The Importance of Understanding Your Go-to-Market Motion
Understanding your go-to-market motion is crucial for shaping your marketing strategy. Factors like your audience, market, competitors, and the problem your product solves all impact your strategy. Your go-to-market motion, whether it's self-serve, sales-led, or a hybrid model, also plays a significant role in shaping your marketing approach. Additionally, marketing advantages like network effects or category creation are essential considerations. It's important to develop a strategy tailored to your specific go-to-market motion.
How Your Go-to-Market Motion Influences Your Marketing Strategy
Different go-to-market motions require different marketing strategies. A product-led growth motion, where customers buy through the website and product, requires promoting both free and paid versions. In contrast, a sales-led motion focuses on selling through sales teams, and a hybrid model combines various approaches. Each motion necessitates different website CTAs and channel selection. Understanding these differences and prioritizing tasks can help marketing teams effectively support their go-to-market motion.
The Impacts of Business Models on Marketing Teams
Your business model significantly affects your marketing team's structure and strategy. For example, a product-led growth company will promote free and paid versions, while a sales-driven organization may focus solely on the paid version. Roles like acquisition, life cycle marketing, and product marketing vary depending on the business model. Furthermore, different business models impact lead scoring methods and the overall organization of marketing teams.
Hiring Considerations for Product Marketing Roles
Product marketing roles primarily focus on understanding the audience, market, and product to guide marketing strategy. These roles require individuals with a mix of strategic thinking, project management skills, and the ability to balance left and right-brain thinking. Excellent writing skills and experience in audience research and content creation are also crucial. While experience level is not as important, candidates should have a strong skill set and a future leadership potential in marketing.
In this episode of Unlocking Revenue, Pocus Head of Marketing, Sandy Mangat, chats with Emily Kramer — she's built and scaled the GTMs of well-known PLG and PLS brands like Asana and Carta, and now helps marketers with her newsletter, advising, and angel investment.
Listen in for advice on:
👉 The GTM spectrum: from pure PLG to fully sales-led 👉 Hiring and org design to complement your GTM motion 👉 Marketing strategy for each motion: top-down, bottoms-up or hybrid
About Emily:
Emily Kramer is co-founder of MKT1, where she helps founders and marketing leaders build high-growth B2B companies through investment and advising. Prior to founding MKT1 she built and scaled marketing teams at Asana, Carta, Ticketfly, and Astro (acquired by Slack).
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