Growth Marketing’s Not-So-Secret Ingredient
Growth marketing is on the radar of many SaaS executives right now, especially startups that are fighting for new revenue. It’s important to think beyond tactics when assembling the ingredients for growth marketing success.
Creating High-Impact Product Launches in a Rapid-Release SaaS World
With quarterly, monthly, or even weekly SaaS product release cycles, it’s hard to capture the limited time and energy your customers, press, analysts, and influencers have to learn about new things. Product marketers and their stakeholders need to adapt to this rapid-release world in several ways
Is Your SaaS Product Right for Product-Led Growth (PLG)?
Product-led growth (PLG) strategies apply a business model in which user acquisition, expansion, conversion, and retention are all driven primarily by the product itself. PLG is a hot topic for SaaS companies right now, but this strategy is not the right fit for every SaaS product or company. This blog post discusses some important considerations.
What Is a Product Messaging Audit?
A product messaging audit is a systematic inspection of how buyers actually perceive your company’s product: the problems that the product solves, the value it delivers, and what makes it special.
How to Get the Most out of Customer Interviews
Over the course of hundreds of customer interviews for product messaging projects, I’ve developed an approach that makes the process efficient for the people I interview and effective for my client companies. Learn what I do.
5 Misconceptions About B2B Product Messaging
Many marketing organizations lack a shared understanding of what product messaging is and isn’t. They struggle to improve because they don’t know what “good” looks like; and their work does not have the impact they hope for. Here are five common misconceptions that I often hear, even from seasoned marketing executives.
Content Marketing Lessons: How to Get More from Your Content Creation Efforts
These steps will help you build a content marketing strategy that results in more compelling content while maintaining your sanity (and that of your team).
Founders, Here’s How to Partner for Effective Product Messaging
Over the years, I’ve had the honor of working with many company founders to create positioning and messaging for new products and to reposition existing ones. As a company founder, your mindset about positioning and messaging has an outsized impact—whether you’re working with internal marketing staff or an external consultant like me. Here’s what you can do to partner with your team (or your consultant) to build messaging that works—that is, that attracts more customers to your business.
9 Questions Product Marketers Should Ask When Job Hunting
As a job seeker, how do you uncover the best product marketing opportunities? Ask these nine questions.
Why Product Marketers Fail – and What Their CMOs Can Do About It
I see five common reasons why product marketers fail. PMMs and CMOs can take steps to improve the situation.
Seven Rules for Sizzling Product Launches
My own product launch experiences and survival skills uncovered these seven rules for making the product launch process highly successful.
How to Craft Killer Competitive Playbooks
On top of getting good competitive intelligence, these tips will help you build competitive playbooks that make a real difference.
Bringing Your Pricing Committee Together as a Functional Family
Effective pricing policies require cross-functional input and viewpoints, but many organizations struggle to establish and maintain a solid process for making decisions.
Six Things I Have Learned About Hiring Great Product Marketers
Product marketing positions are notoriously tough to fill. Here are some of my key lessons learned about what it takes to hire the right product marketer.
Cool Client Project Featured on MarketingSherpa!
Does event planning conjure up images of greatness? Probably not. Here’s a project I worked on that stood out.
Inside Sales: Inside or Outside?
I wanted to dig into the question of what makes inside sales successful, so I reached out to my friend and former colleague André Anderson.
The Four Personas of Project-Management-Phobes
Project management software can make marketing teams much more effective, but there are barriers that prevent effective widespread use.
Recipes for Product Packaging
Product packaging decisions require customer insights, good competitive intelligence, and focused effort from a cross-functional team.
Dissecting Your Competition Through Investor Communications
For the competitive analyst, investor disclosure means competitive fodder. Quarterly SEC filings (the 10-Q) and annual filings (the 10-K) provide a wealth of information.
Five Questions to Ask While Naming Your Product Category, and Three More for When You’re Almost Done
Here are some considerations for naming a new product category.