The best of Product Marketing Life: Game-changing insights from 2023
Dec 22, 2023
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The podcast features insights on horizontal product marketing strategies, demonstrating marketing impact, sustaining successful launches, win-loss programs, and the differences between solo and team-based product marketing roles.
Strategic approach to GTM phases for horizontal products: from experimental testing to targeted segments to expansion for sustained enterprise growth.
Shift towards quantifying customer advocacy value for demand generation, emphasizing direct impact measurement beyond traditional metrics.
Deep dives
Go-To-Market Strategy Phases for Horizontal Products
For horizontal products, Robert Kaminsky from Flutch introduces a strategic approach involving four key go-to-market phases. The first phase entails experimental testing targeting a broad audience to identify potential use cases. This evolves into a targeted go-to-market phase focusing on specific personas and use cases with formalized strategies. Subsequently, growth occurs through multiple targeted segments before advancing to the expansion go-to-market phase. In this final phase, the emphasis shifts to customer success playbooks and long-term value growth, crucial for sustained enterprise expansion.
Demonstrating Impact in Customer Marketing
Zoe Mark from log.io highlights the challenge of proving value in customer marketing efforts that transition from content advocacy to demand generation. Emphasizing the need to quantify impact beyond traditional metrics, Zoe discusses the shift towards associating advocacy efforts directly with generating measurable value, particularly in the evolving economic and marketing landscape.
Sustaining Successful Product Launches
Devin O'Rourke of Flubio underscores the need for repeatability in go-to-market processes to sustain successful product launches. Highlighting the cyclic nature of go-to-market strategies, Devin stresses the importance of continuous learning post-launch to refine and update personas, messaging, and strategies for improved effectiveness and scalability.
Understanding Win Loss Analysis
Ryan Feller from True Voice at Corporate Visions provides insights into what win loss analysis entails and what it is not. Win loss analysis focuses on understanding buyer decisions based on four key competitive areas without delving into deep product reviews. Ryan explains that winning decisions often involve factors beyond product features, emphasizing the influence of human behavior and connection in purchase choices.