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How to Design a Winning Workshop: Step 1 of 5

The Product Coalition

If you’re a workshop leader or meeting facilitator, at some point you’ve probably observed the not-so-fun energies of resistance and aversion among your participants. The truth is, the workshop experience is going to be a waste of time if it isn’t grounded in a well-thought-out design. So, where does a winning workshop design begin?

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The Most Basic Rule of Product Positioning – It’s Easy

Product Management University

I learned a lot about product positioning long before I ever stepped into a product marketing role. I think of demos as verbal product positioning. The Product Positioning School of Hard Knocks Early in my pre-sales demo career, I had some demos where my audience was totally engaged and it felt like I hit it out of the park.

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Should Product Positioning and Sales Narratives be Different?

Product Management University

Does your product positioning need to be different than your sales narratives? The short and simple answer is no, but it’s highly dependent on how your product positioning is constructed. No salesperson would ever use our product positioning dialogues when talking with prospects and customers.

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Spark Innovation With Your Team: Three Workshop Formats To Help

The Product Coalition

Here are three common scenarios that cause many teams to fall idle, along with the workshop formats I use to get them unstuck, tap into their true potential, and unlock possibilities for the organization. To uncover this information, I recommend a Problem-framing and Idea Generation Workshop.

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Competitive Demos – How to Attack Your Competitor’s Strengths

Product Management University

Just like you, they know their own shortcomings and there’s a good chance they’ve been schooled on how to neutralize them with some clever positioning or avoidance tactics. All of this is not to say that you shouldn’t expose their glaring weaknesses if they have them, but hitting their strengths too gives you an even stronger position.

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How To Climb The Product Marketing Career Ladder Faster

Product Management University

Be a Positive Person That Salespeople Love To Work With There’s a lot to unpack here, but DO NOT interpret this as “do whatever sales asks.” The Most Basic Rule of Product Positioning 3. As a product marketer, figure out how to make these common scenarios easier for salespeople to navigate with a handful of simple sales tools.

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Top 10: Why Salespeople Don’t Use Corporate Positioning Decks

Product Management University

Directly from many salespeople (clients) over the past 20 years, here are the most popular responses (in no particular order) to the question, “Why don’t you use the corporate positioning deck? Here’s the problem with most positioning presentations that come from corporate marketing. “ Too much fluff.