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3 Product Marketing Myths to Dispel

Product Management University

If clearer differentiation and greater sales success are on your A-list, dispel these three product marketing myths and you’ll be on your way. Differentiating individual products is like splitting hairs. Here’s the funny part. Here’s the thing.

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3 Tiers of Customer Value in the Product Management Maturity Model

Product Management University

Instead of delivering a great cloud platform, you’re delivering a cloud platform with capabilities that are specific to banking, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, etc. Differentiation becomes easier now because your relevance quotient is much higher in your chosen markets versus horizontal-only competitors.

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Solving Market Problems or Addressing Market Needs: Which is Better?

Product Management University

You look at the market dynamics in one or more industries like healthcare, energy or retail. The market-problems approach forces you to spread resources thinner, compete and differentiate at a product level (feature wars) and usually means marketing and sales messages are fragmented across products and don’t tell a cohesive value story.

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Selling Around Deficiencies, Rock Star Product Managers & The Functional Designer Role

Product Management University

In This Issue: Blog: High-Octane Product Management. Imagine What a Rock Star Product Manager Could Do For Healthcare Reform. Differentiation and Innovation: Your Ticket to Surviving Product Commoditization. Politics Not Included! Techniques for Hiring the Right Product Manager.

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Selling Around Deficiencies, Rock Star Product Managers & The Functional Designer Role

Product Management University

In This Issue: Blog: High-Octane Product Management. Imagine What a Rock Star Product Manager Could Do For Healthcare Reform. Differentiation and Innovation: Your Ticket to Surviving Product Commoditization. Politics Not Included! Techniques for Hiring the Right Product Manager.

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The Ideal Product Marketing Candidate for B2B

Product Management University

Must have strong domain expertise in a particular industry (healthcare, banking, etc.) The development of messaging and collateral in today’s role is more focused on making the salesforce skilled at selling and differentiating your solutions versus creating the obligatory artifacts for the launch checklist as it was in its infancy.

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5 Reasons Why Product Managers Have to Understand Data

The Product Coalition

Optimize Your Time Knowing data will help optimize your time by differentiating urgent things from other urgent things. This article was also published on The Product Management Blog. If you move to a new company you may find that, for example, your new Product Marketing Manager loves data. This will require trade-offs.