Healthy Competition: Product Marketing | Competitive Intelligence | Strategy

Howard Lerman was the Co-Founder and CEO of Yext for 16 years. Now he's building Roam, an All-In-One Cloud HQ for distributed companies. We dug into lessons he learned at Yext, all-in-one vs. specialty products, his strategy for winning with Roam, TikTok's value for B2B companies, and a lot more.  Follow Howard: LinkedIn, Twitter Check out Roam: Website Continue the conversation with me: LinkedIn | TikTok | Twitter This episode is brought to you by the Healthy Competition community. 1,000+ messages are exchanged between Competitive Intel and Product Marketing pros every month. Join today to accel your career in Product Marketing and help your company differentiate against competitors.

Jason is the Sr. Director of Product Marketing at Klue, an AI-powered Competitive Enablement platform that helps product marketers collect, curate, and deliver competitor insights to revenue teams. This conversation was recorded live in the Healthy Competition community, and we discussed how Klue is building the Competitive Enablement category, Product Marketing best practices, and his new template that helps Product Marketers stay focused and productive, the PMM Productivity Hub.  Follow Jason: LinkedIn Check out the PMM Productivity Hub: productivepmm.com Continue the conversation with me: LinkedIn | TikTok | Twitter This episode is brought to you by the Healthy Competition community. 1,000+ messages are exchanged between Competitive Intel and Product Marketing pros every month. Join today to accel your career in Product Marketing and help your company differentiate against competitors.

Blake Bartlett is a partner at OpenView, an expansion-stage venture firm that helps build software companies into market leaders. He's been with OpenView since 2013 and coined the term "Product-Led Growth" (PLG) in 2016. Some of my favorite content on LinkedIn comes from Blake's show, PLG123. In our conversation, we dove into all things (you guessed it) PLG, why that strategy isn't a differentiator on its own anymore, what companies should do in ADDITION to PLG, how his content strategy with OpenView has led investment opportunities, and more. Follow Blake: LinkedIn Subscribe to PLG123: YouTube | Newsletter Check out his podcast: BUILD Continue the conversation with me: LinkedIn | TikTok | Twitter This episode is brought to you by the Healthy Competition community. 1,000+ messages are exchanged between Competitive Intel and Product Marketing pros every month. Join today to learn how to help your company differentiate and beat competitors.

The economy's in the toilet. Layoffs are happening left and right. It's probably a smart idea for Product Marketers to diversify their income. So in this episode, Raechel Lambert joined us to explore all things freelancing. After personally figuring out what works and what doesn't as a PMM freelancer, she built a business helping other folks explore and take advantage of the opportunity. It's called Olivine Marketing, and it's a full-service agency for Product Marketing, Branding & Websites, and Sales Enablement. We talk about the opportunities and risks of freelancing for companies in different stages of growth, market rates for PMM freelancers, how to get your first clients, and a lot more. Follow Raechel: Twitter, LinkedIn Subscribe to her newsletter Check out Olivine Marketing Continue the conversation with me: LinkedIn | TikTok | Twitter This episode is brought to you by the Healthy Competition community. 1,000+ messages are exchanged between Competitive Intel and Product Marketing pros every month. Join today to learn how to help your company differentiate and beat competitors.

Really stoked to get this interview out. If you listen to this podcast, you probably already know who Dave is. But just in case, here's some background. Dave was the 8th employee at Drift, eventually became their VP of Marketing, helped them create the Conversational Marketing category, left to join Privy as the CMO, helped them get acquired by Attentive, and now runs a fantastic community for B2B marketers called Exit Five (of which I'm a member).  We talked about category creation, how his competitive messaging differed between Drift and Privy, and we also dove into some other topics that I had never heard him talk about on other podcasts. Follow Dave: LinkedIn, Twitter Check out Exit Five Listen to his new podcast: The Dave Gerhardt Podcast Continue the conversation with me: LinkedIn | TikTok | Twitter This episode is brought to you by the Healthy Competition community. 1,000+ messages are exchanged between Competitive Intel and Product Marketing pros every month. Join today to learn how to help your company differentiate and beat competitors.

Dan Hamilton, VP of Competitive Intelligence at Salesforce, joined a live Q&A with the Healthy Competition community. He's spent 8 years at Salesforce working on CI, and he filled us in on how to progress in your career, the qualities of a good Competitive Intel practitioner, tactical plays he's working on to make his program more efficient, and more. Follow Dan: LinkedIn Continue the conversation with me: LinkedIn | TikTok | Twitter This episode is brought to you by The Competitive Playbook (hey, that's me! 😀) The Competitive Playbook has helped 150+ founders, product marketers, and enablement professionals build or optimize their Competitive Intel programs. Learn more about why folks from Slack, Metadata, Zendesk, Highspot, and more are using the course to build healthy competitive programs at competitiveplaybook.com.

In this live session, I was joined by Federico Jorge (Founder of Stack Against) and JJ Haglund (former Adobe and Amplitude) to talk all things relating to SEO and Competitive Intel. We dove into the different types of competitive content that Google ranks, the strategies you should consider, how JJ attributes the majority of his side hustle business to SEO, and Federico's new free resource, the Competitive Keyword Generator.  Follow JJ: LinkedIn Follow Federico: LinkedIn Check out Stack Against: Website Check out the Competitive Keyword Generator Continue the conversation with me: LinkedIn | TikTok | Twitter This episode is brought to you by The Competitive Playbook (hey, that's me! 😀) The Competitive Playbook has helped 150+ founders, product marketers, and enablement professionals build or optimize their Competitive Intel programs. Learn more about why folks from Slack, Metadata, Zendesk, Highspot, and more are using the course to build healthy competitive programs at competitiveplaybook.com.

Patrick Campbell is the Founder & CEO of ProfitWell (recently acquired for $200M by Paddle), a software that improves your retention and monetization automatically through subscription intelligence. In our conversation, Patrick touches on his background in the NSA and how it inspired him to build profiles on competitors, what his profiles consist of, and how he uses them (including a fun story on how he was able to stop the fundraising of a number of his competitors). Lots of in-depth, scrappy examples of collecting and taking action on competitive intel in this episode. And if you're patient, you'll hear me nervously pitch Patrick at the end on a competitive intel service that I've been noodling on.  Follow Patrick: Twitter Continue the conversation with me: LinkedIn | TikTok | Twitter This episode is brought to you by The Competitive Playbook (hey, that's me! 😀) The Competitive Playbook has helped 150+ founders, product marketers, and enablement professionals build or optimize their Competitive Intel programs. Learn more about why folks from Slack, Metadata, Zendesk, Highspot, and more are using the course to build healthy competitive programs at competitiveplaybook.com.

Will Aitken is the Head of Sales Content at Sales Feed, the media company arm within Vidyard. I'm in love with Sales Feed's videos, and Will is a hilarious and thoughtful guy. It's clear that his videos are resonating too—Sales Feed has 80k followers on TikTok, significantly more than traditional B2B SaaS companies. He explains how the team got started, the mistakes he's learned from, what Sales Feed's success looks like for Vidyard, and more. We also chat about Will's new community, Social Social, which connects creators and social media managers and allows them to learn from each other. Follow Will: LinkedIn, TikTok Follow Social Social: Website, LinkedIn, TikTok Follow Sales Feed: Website, LinkedIn, TikTok Continue the conversation with me: LinkedIn | TikTok | Twitter  This episode is brought to you by The Competitive Playbook (hey, that's me! 😀) The Competitive Playbook has helped 150+ founders, product marketers, and enablement professionals build or optimize their Competitive Intel programs. Learn more about why folks from Slack, Metadata, Zendesk, Highspot, and more are using the course to build healthy competitive programs at competitiveplaybook.com.

If you want to make an impact on your org, you need to get as close to revenue as possible. With that in mind, we're diving deep into how Competitive Intel and Product Marketers can partner with sales to win more competitive deals with: Clara Smyth: Senior Product Marketing Manager at Slack Pat Wall: Head of Competitive Intelligence at Imperva Brandon Bedford: Competitive Enablement Manager at Klue Farhan Manjiyani: Product Marketing Manager, Competitive Intelligence at Grafana Labs Follow Clara: LinkedIn Follow Pat: LinkedIn Follow Brandon: LinkedIn Follow Farhan: LinkedIn Continue the conversation with me: LinkedIn | TikTok | Twitter This episode is brought to you by The Competitive Playbook (hey, that's me! 😀): The Competitive Playbook The Competitive Playbook has helped 150+ founders, product marketers, and enablement professionals build or optimize their Competitive Intel programs. Learn more about why folks from Slack, Metadata, Zendesk, Highspot, and more are using the course to build healthy competitive programs at competitiveplaybook.com.