What great product marketers have in common with method actors
If I could draw any comparison between myself and a famous actor it would be that as a Product Marketer I must become my customer if I want them to listen to anything I have to say.
What is a buyer persona and how do you build one?
An accurate buyer persona stops you from wasting thousands of dollars on ads that don’t convert.
Why marketing your solution needs to start with product marketing
By implementing product marketing strategies into your marketing plan, you can make an impactful first impression, market to the right people, and create messaging that resonates with customers.
Redjay’s positioning & messaging workshop: how the sausage gets made
8 min read. In our latest workshop, we’re taking you behind the scenes with Russ Thau, Founder & CEO of Redjay to show you how positioning & messaging come together in the early days.
JUV has its positioning & messaging—now its ready to launch
5 min read. Jai Patel is on a mission to inspire busy people to maintain a healthy lifestyle with JUV, a juice press that pairs with the blender you already own. With design, prototyping, and production complete, he’s using The Founder’s Marketing Playbook to clarify JUV’s messaging and sell his first units.
MVP is dead. Launch your Minimum Marketable Product instead
55 min watch. In this talk we work with Santiago Suarez Ordonez, CEO & Co-Founder of Momentum to go beyond MVP and identify their Minimum Marketable Product to plan their next launch.
To craft great messaging, pretend your product fits in a box
6 min read. This is one of the most useful marketing tactics for crafting great product messaging. It fosters creativity, forces brevity, and drives lively discussions, and helps build consensus.
Talk: Live workshop to identify personas with the CEO & co-founder of Momentum
46 min watch. In this talk, we introduce the fundamentals of personas that will help you build an understanding of who your customers are which is critical to effectively designing, building, marketing, and selling products. Then we do a live working session with Santiago Suarez Ordonez, CEO & Co-Founder of Momentum to work through building their Proto-Personas.
Do you really know who you’re selling to? How to build personas and why it matters
5 min read. We've worked with dozens of founders who insist they "know" who their target audience is, but it's only after we've guided them through this persona process that they see how much information, understanding, and empathy has yet to be fleshed out.
Using Jobs to Be Done to build and market better products
6 min read. Jobs to Be Done is an innovation framework that will help you differentiate in a crowded market, innovate on a mature product, and market effectively to customers.
From floor cleaner to mouthwash: How positioning makes a world of difference
7 min read. How you position your product will make or break your company. A product can be re-framed in the minds of consumers without changing a single thing about the product.
Your MVP may not be as viable as you think
6 min read. A pervasive mistake I see is companies waiting to start thinking about how they’ll announce their product. The excuse is always that they’re too busy building product. But building an MVP without a strong plan for the announcement will become a launch that falls flat. Instead build the MMP, Minimum Marketable Product.
Talk: Defining & marketing the Jobs to Be Done
52 min watch. In this talk with Grand Central Tech, we introduce the concepts of Jobs To Be Done, share real-world examples, and do a live working session with Matt Giffune, the CEO and Co-Founder of Occupier, a real estate success platform.
How our Build-A-Box workshop leads to better messaging
Build-A-Box is aptly named because you, well, “build a box” of core messaging for your product and company.
The 12 stages of taking a new product to market
Taking a new product to market is a daunting task and it can be hard to know where to begin. Start by truly understanding customers and competitors to find the story that only you can tell.
Product marketing starts before product scope
The popular analogy that product managers put product on the shelf and product marketers get it off the shelf is fundamentally wrong. The best products are built with the market in mind–and product marketing should contribute long before anything gets put on a shelf.