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Incomplete question. My personal opinion. But Companies can do marketing of product by taking means of Both Online/offline.

There are four basic types of promotion:

1) Advertising

2) Sales Promotion

3) Personal Selling

4) Publicity.

Now, since this question lies in Digital marketing category, I would like to brief you the ways involved in it:

• Publish Great Content. ...
• Create Instructional Videos. ...
• Get Ad Promo Credits. ...
• Reddit. ...
• Be a Savvy Social Networker. ...
• Stumble Upon Advertising. ...
• DIY Infographics. ...
• Give New Life to Old Data.
• Traditional marketing involves:

1. Hoardings
2. Banners
3. Advertisement in Newspaper
4. TV ads

I have tried to keep this as small as possible. Go for the kill now!!

I've been involved in 100+ interviews of product management candidates, either as a hiring manager, a consultant, or as a job-seeker.

The following are common questions asked. I'm not saying that these questions are good ones, just that they are frequently asked.

• Why do you want to be a Product Manager? (or, for the experienced, How did you end up in Product Management?)
• Walk me through your resume.
• How do you define Product Management?
• Which parts of the (broadly-defined) Product Management role do you truly excel in? Which parts are your weaknesses?
• Which other companies excel in the discipline of Product Management and why?
• How do you balance the demands of strategic activities versus the tactical?
• How do you balance the conflicting demands of different groups, both within the company and without?
• There is a feature that Sales (or a Big Customer) demands be added to the product now, but it is not planned for the next release, which is due out imminently. What do you do?
• Can you identify the bug in this code? (Usually asked by a QA engineer or other junior Engineer, who has no clue what Product Managers actually do and thus reverts to asking coding questions for a role where no coding is involved. This is a LOUSY question for a Product Manager, but one I've seen asked many times).
• How do you prioritize among competing features?
• For your current company, who are your competitors? How are your competitors and your company positioned within the market?
• For your current company, what are your product's strengths and weaknesses?
• How do you get Engineering to listen to you, given that Product Management has no official authority?
• What does it take to become a successful Product Manager?

OK, I'll tackle the first few and if people like where I am going with this maybe I will add some more.

How do you prioritize among competing features?
You obviously have to balance the needs of the customers and the business. If your planning process is thematic and goal driven you will have a good framework to begin the process. If you have a good customer feedback loop, you will be able to put it all together and make informed product plans.

For example, this week you may decide to improve your sign-up and on-boarding process to increase your activation rate. So you decide to run a 1/2 day usability test that your team observes. It's painfully clear that you need to make the process less confusing and instill a sense of trust in your product before asking for personal information. A quick brainstorm and you have 3 things you can do this week that you think will have a positive impact on the product.

How do you say no to people?
Not all ideas are great ideas. As Eric Ries said at an event I ran recently, if all you did was blindly A/B test your site it would eventually turn into porn.

As a Product Manager if you say no in the right way for the right reasons you will gain respect and authority in your organization.

First, when prompted with an idea don't feel pressured to give an answer immediately. This is especially important with people north of you like say the CEO or Board of Directors. Don't be intimidated and get pushed around. Be an active listener - repeat the idea to make sure the person feels heard. Say you need to think about the suggestion, discuss it with your team and you will get back to them by a specific date. When that day comes, you will be well prepared to explain why the idea doesn't make sense at this time.

Sometimes you can say no right away. If you have a clear product strategy and goals unsuitable ideas are easy to evaluate. Of course, you still want to make the person feel heard before you explain why we aren't going to do that right now.

What is your favorite online product and why? How would you improve it?
Every product manager better have the answer to this question chambered. Start with your assumption of the site's business goals and frame your improvements around that. If you are too close to the site, interview some friends to get a fresh perspective.

Several other folks have outlined what product marketing is — there are some helpful insights on this thread. So, I would like to take a slightly different, more human-centric approach.

Let's look at the person doing the product marketing — the product marketing manager. I think this will help you quickly understand what this type of marketing entails and how important it is.

Behind every successful product and all great launches is a product marketing manager. I know this because, at the start of my career, I was one myself.

Product marketing managers have a simple but challenging goal — understanding the product, its benefit, and the market exceptionally well, so they can explain that value to customers and everyone within their company too.

Easy enough, right? Well, I recently explained the type of work that product marketing managers must do — everything from defining personas and completing competitive analysis to creating technical product marketing materials. Product marketing managers need deep empathy for the customer. Yes, they also need to be product experts. And of course, they must have an acute awareness of organizational sensitivity, understanding what teammates need to best represent the product as well.

This means product marketing managers live in three worlds — and bring it all together:

1. Customers
2. Product
3. Marketing

Those worlds are both outward- and inward-facing. Product marketing managers set and communicate the product’s positioning, key value-based messages, and buyer insights to cross-functional teams. They also lead product launches and make sure that customers understand the value of the product through website updates, content, and even sales collateral. In some organizations, product marketing managers also deliver demos and present at conferences or on webinars. They also track and measure the impact of launches and act as a product expert for other marketing teammates.

The responsibility of a product marketing manager is broad and therefore a significant value to an organization.

From the article I mentioned above, here is a quick list of what they must know:

• What makes the product unique
• The customers’ pain points (use a persona template to get started)
• The go-to-market strategy
• How to drive product adoption
• What the rest of the organization needs

The real value of a product marketing manager is that they connect people with the solutions they need — both to customers and to colleagues. Serving that role — of connector — is when they are at their best.

You should be doing both from Day One!

Always remember KLT….Know - Like - Trust

People buy from people and the stories behind those people (your company)

If your only marketing the product or service your brand or company offers, your cost to acquire a customer will always be more verse building a story around your company, which long-term will pull people in towards your business.

With that said, too many entrepreneurs (newer) forget (or are afraid) to ask for the business and if you don’t ask you won’t survive.

I feel every entrepreneur:

Grinds: They work hard to grow & reach their dream

Sacrifice: We all sacrifice time with friends and family to build our dream

Determined: We’re all Determined to Succeed

but……

Not every Entrepreneur GSD (Gets Stuff Done)

In the early days of business make sure that your marketing bother your product/service, while also marketing your story just as much.

Long-term, you’ll set your self up for much greater success by doing both!!!

• Profit as a pre-requisite. Your business must first be highly profitable because if their budget reduces, then, as a result, their product and marketing becomes less quality.
• Product and branding(and competitiveness) as a prerequisite.Your business must also have good product, and good branding so their marketing has a good beauty model to try to attract customers when they put their product in front of the customers.
• Marketing to high effect, ‘near perfect’ consistency, and cost/time efficiency. A marketing team has a specific budget, so they must be faster, do cheaper activities, yet achieve high effect. They choose which activities have been good, they do not do activities which have been bad, they experiment somewhat to try to make mediocre activities become good activities, and they try new activities which show promise. It is very methodical and rigorous.

In short, Every department outside of marketing has to be done to high effect. Marketing has to select the effective activities which yield the most results, try to make mediocre activities become effective activities, and slightly experiment with new activities to make them into mediocre or effective activities. It’s a lot to do with being diligent.

Product Marketing or Marketing a Product is the way toward putting up an item for sale to the public. This incorporates choosing the item's situating and informing, propelling the item, and guaranteeing sales reps and clients get it. Product Marketing means to drive the interest and utilization of the item.

The thing is, Product Marketing doesn't stop once the item has gone to market (on the off chance that it did, well, item advertisers at a one-item organization wouldn't have a lot to do after the item's dispatch). The way toward marketing a product keeps going great after its dispatch to guarantee the ideal individuals know about the item, those individuals realize how to utilize it, and that the requirements and input of those individuals are being tuned in to over the item's lifecycle.

Seven Critical Steps of Product Marketing

At the point when product marketers know precisely whom their item takes into account, the showcasing can start. Here are seven things marketers may do previously, during, and after their product enters the market:

1. Product Research: An accommodating and very much made item isn't made in a vacuum, and it additionally isn't advertised in one. In the many months before an item dispatch, item advertisers work with the item's designers to test the item both inside and remotely through controlled beta situations.
2. Product Story: Products are likewise brought to showcase as a story. What issue does the item unravel? Who's confronting this issue? How can it take care of this issue? What does it do that contenders don't?
3. Product Focused Content: Product showcasing's next stop is the work areas of the substance makers. Here, item advertisers may make and A/B test different promoting duplicate, blog content, contextual analyses, and greeting pages on their site - all devoted to actually portraying the item.
4. Product Launch Plan: No item advertising group is finished without a composed dispatch plan, illuminating each and every phase of the showcasing procedure and who's dependable at each point.
5. Product Launch Meeting: When the item is propelled, everybody included meets the day it's turned out. Much like a rocket dispatch, this is the item advertiser's best hour - it's the peak of an item promoting effort.
6. Community Engagement: As item advertising creates enough buzz around the item inside the business, it's regular for the showcasing group to profit by what the market is stating about them. This incorporates contacting accomplices, influencers, and existing clients for editorial.
7. Sales Enablement: As an item is being set up for the commercial center, the business group is standing ready to build up a business methodology around this new business opportunity. It's the item promoting group's business to meet with deals staff previously, during, and after the item is turned out to the general population. This guarantees the informing made for this item is steady right through to the primary deals call.

Very simple: the world is flat. for consumers, boundaries are artificial. A banner ad is seen by international visitors. A billboard is seen by tourists and business travelers. If the strategy is right, why change it from country to country?

A consistent marketing strategy globally is more efficient, consistent and effective. Of course, tactical execution may change: you could sponsor soccer in Latin America and hockey in Canada.

Global marketing strategy with some freedom for local implementation.

Let me show you an example, using the World’s most valuable brand:

These are three billboards - in three different continents.

Apple is the World’s most valuable company. Hard to argue their strategy is wrong.

Not convinced? here is another example. A brand, also one of the most valuable in the World, with the same marketing strategy, around the world, for decades:

A business model is a fancy way of saying – how your business will make money. As the company expands to global destinations, it faces competing pressures on its business model between consistency and change:

Keep it the same around the world

The company has '" perfected" its business model. The preferred strategy becomes somewhat fixed. Any deviation from the 'as-is' is considered too risky. It rocks the boat and takes away from the well-oiled machine and is not regarded as impactful.

The company structure is constantly optimized to deliver that winning strategy more effectively around the world.

The company wants to have the same product but delivered through local employees and structure. These are people who are knowledgeable of the local conditions.

Most product companies prefer this approach. A few examples are Boeing Aircrafts, Coca-cola, etc.

Modify the product to meet local preferences

The market conditions are different in different countries. Tastes vary. The marketing and promotion that work in the home country may not work in another.

The attempt is to keep as many of the business model elements the same while modifying only those elements that cater to local preferences.

For example, Mcdonalds' does not sell its signature beef hamburger in India, replacing it with local offerings. It retains the fries, it's branding, and many elements of its business model. It also adds unique products that suit local tastes.

In essence, a successful company balances these two competing elements by retaining as many elements of its business model as possible, modifying the organizational structure to meet local conditions, and only changing those elements preferred in the local markets.

Here are a couple...

1. How do you prioritize among competing features?
   Primarily by business impact - what has the largest impact to the company's strategic or tactical needs? Secondarily, what are we hearing from our actual customers - what needs and problems do they have that one or more of these competing features may be able to address?
2. How do you say no to people?
   I try not to say "no", as much as humanly possible. Instead, I try to make sure that the person understands that I've taken in their input, that it will be considered reasonably, and that the output may or may not reflect their specific ask - but it will address the underlying problem. "That's a great idea, I'll make sure it gets on the product roadmap" is my most commonly-used phrase in this vein.

Not only a product requires marketing to succeed but also each and everything requires marketing to suceed.

Whether you are aware or not at most of the times you are doing marketing.

Suppose you went for an interview and they ask why should I choose you over others?

Now you will answer them how good you are at some thing, what skills you have and how would you implement it for the betterment of that company.

Basically you are doing marketing and your product now is your skill. You are selling your skills and your valuable 8 hours time and if they agree then you succeeded, If not then you should try to sell it to other company where there is demand as simple as that.

Yes each and every product or thing requires marketing to suceed.

Great question! Product Marketing is relatively new.

SaaS companies have started to realize that their products should be the main driver of growth. This product-led growth flips the old marketing and sales rulebooks on their heads.

Product marketing is a large part of this shift. With software development becoming cheaper and more and more democratized, the competition in the SaaS market has become fierce. And so – the purchasing decisions are now made by the end-user – not execs.

From: BUILD. Product-Led Growth. The End-User Era.

In recent years, product marketing has become a standalone sub-team of SaaS marketing departments. As you can see from the Google Trends graph below, the number of searches for “product marketing manager” has steadily increased over the past five years.

So what does this mean for you and your SaaS? Mostly it means that if you haven’t yet sat up and started figuring out your product marketing strategy, then you really should.

In this article, I’m going to show you:

• What product marketing is
• Why it’s so important (especially for SaaS companies)
• Who’s responsible for it
• What a product marketing strategy involves
• And some real-world examples of SaaS product marketing

Let’s dive in…

What is product marketing?

First of all…how is product marketing different from traditional marketing?

In the words of Dave Gerhardt of Drift:

Traditional marketing focuses on acquiring and converting customers. … They also promote a company, its brand and ensure the consistency of the marketing message. Product marketing on the other hand focuses on marketing to customers, driving demand and adoption, all with the goal of creating happy, successful customers.

As you can see from Drift’s definition – product marketing focuses on promoting your product by delivering excellent user experience to your existing customers, rather than building brand awareness through content or paid advertising. In the product marketing paradigm – happy customers drive new customer acquisition through the word of mouth. Hence – it is crucial to keep ‘marketing’ your product to your existing customers – and ensure they keep using your product and discovering its secondary features:

Higher adoption means your customers derive more value from your product.

This, in turn, leads to higher satisfaction levels in the existing customers.

RELATED: Customer Lifecycle Marketing Guide: How SaaS Companies Can Optimize for Each Stage

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In addition, according to Hubspot, “Product marketing is the process of bringing a product to market, promoting it, and selling it to a customer.”

In other words, product marketing is laser-focused on your product.

That means it doesn’t include brand awareness. It also means product marketing focuses on improving the product, customer experience, adoption and retention – rather than strategies and specific tactics for customer acquisition.

The three pillars of product marketing

Hubspot’s definition can be broken down into three distinct parts.

Firstly, the process of bringing a product to market.

The process of bringing your product to market involves making sure you know the market that your product inhabits, and knowing who your ideal customers are. It also involves positioning your product. You need to figure out your USP and focus your product marketing strategy around it.

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Secondly, the process of promoting your product. If you simply launch your product without telling anyone it exists, then you probably aren’t going to sell very much.

Finally, the process of selling your product to a customer. If you launch your product and promote it well, you still need the final push that gets the customer over the line.

To do this, you need to have a great sales process in place, and your product needs to be amazing. You need to make sure you onboard your users effectively.

These three pillars of product marketing explain the process from start to finish.

Where does product marketing fit in?

When you consider the definition of product marketing, you realize something a little strange.

While most of the processes involved are clearly related to marketing, there are some parts that touch on other areas of a SaaS company.

Product positioning, and the overall quality of the product, don’t strictly fall under the umbrella of marketing. Likewise, the final push to purchase isn’t really down to marketing either.

It turns out that product marketing actually encompasses parts of different departments. Namely, it’s a mixture of marketing, sales, and product.

As you can see from the diagram above, each of these three departments combines their skills.

The cross-departmental nature of product marketing is what makes it so crucial to SaaS success.

So let’s look at exactly why product marketing is important…

Why is product marketing important for SaaS companies?

In B2B, purchasing decisions are a lot more rational and less impulsive than in B2C. People don’t buy software products on a whim, they buy software to solve some of their pain-points effectively. That’s why SaaS marketing focuses on the benefits of using the product.

Product marketing, when done well, forces you to think about your marketing more strategically – how the different features of your product solve the pain points of your target customers. Also – who your target customer is, and how your product stacks up against the competitors in terms of meeting the needs of your target customer.

Doing this not only helps you sell more, but gives you a better idea of how your product fits in the landscape and how it stands out from your competitors. In other words: it allows you to position your product better.

Let’s look at some of the benefits you get from product marketing…

Increased sales

When you focus on your product – and making sure its features really provide value to your target audience – it’s much harder to overpromise and underdeliver than in the case of traditional marketing.

Also, great product and constantly attending to the satisfaction of your customers drive Word of Mouth Marketing (WOMM) – which according to a study conducted by Nielsen is a lot more effective than traditional advertising – 92% of consumers believe the recommendations of people they know more than advertising.

All this translates into more sales, and higher customer retention.

Better cohesion and cooperation

A common problem, and not just in SaaS companies, is that when sales are down, teams blame each other. Sales teams say that Marketing teams aren’t giving them enough leads. Marketing teams say that Sales teams aren’t closing enough deals. But this doesn’t really help anyone.

Product marketing brings teams together with a shared goal, and a shared roadmap of how to get there. Everyone will know how much product they need to sell, and how they can all help reach that target.

By removing the barriers between teams, product marketing enables better cooperation.

Improved customer understanding

Part of a successful product marketing strategy involves having a detailed understanding of your customers. You need to know who they are, what they want, and why they want it.

Usually, this information is a little spread out around the company. The Product team will have their research and insights, the Sales team will have spoken to existing customers and prospects, and Marketing will have their own ideas.

Product marketing brings these insights together to provide a comprehensive view of your product’s customers. This knowledge will prove to be extremely valuable.

Those are the three main benefits of product marketing, and hopefully you now realize that product marketing is absolutely crucial to any SaaS company.

But if product marketing is a cross-departmental effort, who is ultimately responsible for it.

Let’s find out…

Who is responsible for product marketing?

As I’ve mentioned already, product marketing often crosses different teams, especially Product, Marketing, and Sales teams.

Of course, it’s hard for three different teams to work together with the efficiency needed for product marketing to truly work. That’s why you need someone to own it.

That’s where the humble product marketer comes in.

What is a product marketer?

SOURCE: CoSchedule

A product marketer is someone who is ultimately responsible for creating and implementing the product marketing strategy.

They have several responsibilities and tasks across the three teams I’ve mentioned: Product, Marketing, and Sales.

Having a dedicated product marketer helps remove the inevitable friction that occurs when multiple teams have to work together. It means you have someone who knows the product marketing strategy inside-out and can make sure everything runs smoothly.

Since product marketing is quite ‘inter-disciplinary’, a product marketer needs to have a range of skills across these different areas.

Since product marketing happens mostly within the product – product marketers need to be able to understand what key activation points the users need to hit to see the value of the product – experience the so-called ‘AHA moment’.

Hence, product marketers need to be able use and implement tools that help increase product adoption and retention through onboarding and in-app experiences, as well as gather customer feedback and analyse it.

RELATED: Net Promoter Score (NPS): The Complete Guide for SaaS

What does a product marketer do?

The short answer to this is: A lot!

In fact, I could probably write a whole article listing all of the different job that product marketers are tasked with.

Here are just some of them:

• Gathering and understanding customer feedback
• Analyzing competitors and the market
• Deciding on product positioning
• Creating and maintaining the product marketing strategy
• Providing sales enablement to help close more deals
• Creating and organizing launch content (landing pages, ads, etc.)
• Overseeing product launches

I don’t know about you, but I feel exhausted just looking at that list. It’s safe to say product marketers have a lot on their plate.

But far and away the biggest thing that a product marketer needs to do is create a product marketing strategy.

Let’s look at what that is…

What is a product marketing strategy?

The cornerstone of any product marketing is the product marketing strategy.

This is the go-to document for anyone involved with product marketing. It details what needs to be done, who needs to do it, and how you’re going to measure success.

A general product marketing strategy will follow the outline below:

1. Defining target audience and buyer personas
2. Deciding on positioning and messaging
3. Setting goals for your product
4. Pricing your product
5. Launching your product

Let’s look at each of those steps in more detail…

1: Defining target audience and buyer personas

When it comes to selling a SaaS product, there’s one golden rule:

“Be specific.”

What do I mean by that?

I mean you need to hone in on why your SaaS specifically is the right product the people you’re selling to.

Different people have different needs. If someone doesn’t quite need your product, then you face an uphill battle. If, however, you market and sell your product to the exact people who need it, then you’re in for a much easier ride.

That’s why this first step is so important for your product marketing strategy.

So, you need to define your target audience and then create some buyer personas based on that audience.

At Userpilot, our product helps companies to improve their onboarding. That’s generally the responsibility of product managers. So it stands to reason that our ideal buyer will be a product manager.

Once we know that, we can start digging in deeper. What size company is Userpilot best suited to? Perhaps there’s a certain industry or vertical we should target?

This stage is all about asking questions until you settle on the perfect buyer persona (or personas) for your product. This will set the stage for the rest of your product marketing strategy.

2: Deciding on positioning and messaging

SOURCE: Infinity

The logical next step after creating your buyer persona is to determine how you position your product.

There are three key questions you need to answer with your product’s positioning:

• Who is your product for?
• What does your product do?
• What makes your product unique?

The first question is answered by the previous step. You have a buyer in mind for your product. That’s who your product is for.

As for the second question, it’s not as simple as listing out all the features. Sure, that’s part of it, but you need to think a bit deeper than that.

What problem does your product solve? That’s the key to your positioning.

To return to Userpilot’s example, our product solves the problem of users churning before they experience value. It does this by helping you improve your onboarding and providing a better product experience. If you’d like to see how Userpilot helps product marketers and managers achieve that – book a demo with us here.

Finally, what makes your product unique? In some cases, your product might be the only solution to the problem. That’s a great place to be, but it’s also unlikely.

Instead, you need to find your USP. There needs to be a reason as to why people would choose your product over a competitor’s. It could be better customer service, it could be a better UI. Basically anything that gives your product the edge.

For Userpilot, it’s that the platform is entirely code-free. That means people can create and customize their onboarding flows to be exactly how they want them without having to mess around with code. It makes it easier. That’s one of our primary USPs.

Once you’ve answered those questions, your messaging comes naturally. In fact, you can put it into one clear sentence:

“[PRODUCT] solves [PROBLEM] for [BUYER] by [SOLUTION] and [USP].”

For Userpilot, this would be:

“Userpilot reduces churn by helping product managers improve their onboarding without using any code.”

RELATED: How to Improve Product Experience and Scale your SaaS

3: Setting goals for your product

The only way of knowing whether your product marketing is working is by having something to measure success against.

What are the best KSIs for your product in the product marketing paradigm?

Your user goals.

And how to find them?

Well, as a product marketer, you need to:

a) ask your users what they want to achieve with your product (preferably directly in the welcome screen)

b) observe your user behaviour (if they are really doing what they said they would – and using the app as intended)

Again – tools like Userpilot allow you to do both.

Users be like…

4: Pricing your product

Pricing SaaS products can be a bit of a minefield. Your pricing is influenced by the market, buyer persona, industry, location, and so much more.

For that reason, it’s hard to give you advice specific to your product. It’s also worth pointing out that this isn’t a decision for just the product marketers to make. This is an all-hands-on-deck situation.

If you want more help with pricing your product, then our good friends at Profitwell have plenty of resources to steer you in the right direction.

5: Launching your product

This is what your whole product marketing strategy boils down to. How are you going to launch your product?

When it comes to product launch – product marketing differs from traditional marketing as well.

Unlike in traditional marketing – the marketing activities around the launch of the product focus on driving user adoption of the product, rather than brand awareness again.

This includes i.a. :

• ensuring the signup flow is frictionless and users don’t drop off before they actually get to see your product
• making sure the onboarding helps the new user navigate your product and get to the ‘aha’ moment as fast as possible – this is best-done through contextual onboarding, i.e. delivering the righ message, to the right user, at the right time;
• use in-app experiences such as checklists and progress bars that guide the user through the main actions they need to perform to make the product useful for them – aka key activation points. A simple onboarding checklist can triple conversions – as one of our users, SkedSocial – found recently (read more about it here).

• Celebrating the adoption milestones with the users to create goodwill and brand loyalty
• Communicating with the user outside the app – e.g. through emails trigerred by in-app events.

All this, again – overlaps with product management and customer success.

RELATED: How your User Adoption Strategy Will Improve LTV and Reduce Churn

Real-world examples of SaaS product marketing

Before we wrap things up, I’d like to show you two example of SaaS product marketing. That way you can see what product marketing actually looks like, and maybe get some inspiration for your own strategy.

Product marketing example #1: Mint

Mint, an Intuit product, is an app that helps people manage their finances.

The app is aimed at younger people who may not have as much experience at managing their money. There’s their buyer persona.

The product is incredibly easy to set up and start using. That ease of use is what makes it stand apart from more fiddly budgeting software. It also improves upon the standard solution of using a spreadsheet.

As they say themselves on the website: “We help you effortlessly manage your finances in one place.”

That’s Mint’s positioning and messaging in a nutshell.

As for their launch, Mint was extremely active on social media, as that’s where their target audience tend to hang out.

They were also on hand to answer pressing concerns and questions, providing advice tailored to their target audience.

The team were able to position Mint as a financial advisor for young people who struggle with their budgets. They then used social media and content to launch the product.

This is a great example of how establishing your positioning early on helps make marketing a product so much easier.

Product marketing example #2: Airtable

Airtable is a difficult product to describe. On the site, it says it’s “Part spreadsheet, part database, and entirely flexible.”

That sounds great, but it made positioning Airtable very difficult. Was it a CRM, or a project management tool, or something else entirely.

The truth was, it could be anything. So how do you position that?

Well, the folks at Airtable realized that they would have to target a wide range of different personas, each with different problems.

This is often an issue that more complex products face.

So what they did as make the product as flexible as possible, while still guiding new users towards the solution they needed.

They created hundreds of templates, across all manner of different categories. This meant prospects could see that their problem could be solved with Airtable. Not only that, but templates made it easier for people to get up and running.

This was a clever product marketing approach for a product that was almost too complex to market effectively.

Key takeaways

Here are the key things to take away from this product marketing article:

• Product marketing is a subcategory of marketing. It involves positioning a product, promoting it, and enabling sales.
• It’s important for SaaS companies to have a product marketing strategy. It increases sales, improves cohesion between teams, and improves customer understanding.
• Product marketers will often own your product marketing efforts. They’re responsible for producing the product marketing strategy and then sharing it with the rest of the company.
• A product marketing strategy will lay out your product’s positioning and messaging, your buyer personas, goals, and a launch plan.

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Marketing is an incredibly broad field, with many different types of roles. To be short, product marketing is essentially conveying to your customers what your product can do for them. In fact, this is because the role differs from company to company. Product marketing is responsible for developing positioning, messaging, competitive differentiation, and enabling the Sales and Marketing teams to ensure they are aligned and work efficiently to generate and close opportunities. Product Marketing is strategic marketing at the product or product line level.

The role of the product marketer is to accelerate product growth by championing the customer, communicating product value, and driving distribution.

The role of all product managers is essentially the same – they are responsible for the commercial success of specific products and work with other marketing functions to achieve this goal.

There are two main components to product marketing – inbound and outbound.

• Inbound product marketing is all about identifying market needs and determining what capabilities a product needs to have to capitalize on these. Inbound marketing is designed to engage with a specific audience and to pull the audience towards your company and product/service.
• Outbound marketing is pushed out to the audience in the hope that some of the target audience will capture the message and act upon it. Companies do this via the use of television, print ads, direct mailers, radio and more. This is how traditional advertising worked.

They’d help but they won’t do it for you. To oversimplify, marketing has two focuses; build awareness and generate leads. Neither of those things will get your product on a shelf. However, if you sell it from online and you do very well and stores want it on their shelves, they may call you.

Let me crush your dreams and say that’s not likely to happen. There’s a lot of legwork that goes into selling a new product and 99% of it is on your shoulders. What you choose to outsource or do in house is up to you but it all comes back to you having to initiate it in some way.

I’d say start your own personal marketing. Get the idea ready to sell and try to drive sales and partnerships as much as you can. Call big and small companies anywhere you can find them and build your niche market that way. Do a bunch of research. It’s going to be a lot of work and sometimes it may be a high risk or require a large sacrifice. So, be prepared. If you believe in the product, take it all the way.

Don’t market the company or your product, market your promised benefits to your customers’ main problem.

Assuming that your product has been figured out, it works, has a good quality and is priced correctly… I would recommend starting with the end in mind, you want to have a marketing strategy before starting any marketing tactic. You want your every marketing effort to be aligned and cohesive. They should always speak to the same audience over and over with none conflicting messages.

I am not eluding to hiring expensive consultants or spending indefinite time on this task, I would highly recommend starting with Donald Miller’s book Building a Storybrand. After that, you’ll know exactly why you shouldn’t just “get your name out there”, copy your competitors, or just spend on social media because everyone is telling us to do so. You will become more thoughtful, minimal and intentional with your marketing to get the highest impact for your startup.

While it’s easier said than done, you’ll see that marketing should essential be clear, concise, all about the customer and not your business, empathetic to their problem, demonstrates authority and confidence in doing business with you, and clearly calls to action.

Chances are that you’ll come across the quick fixes tips in terms of PR and generating traffic. Those might result in temporary spikes to your traffic and business but I wouldn’t use them in the early stages, only once you have a well oiled marketing and sales funnel so you would be able to reap the benefits of a higher conversion rate (from visitors to customers) and lifetime value (higher repeated purchases from the same customers).

The market conditions is different in different countries. What marketing and promotion works one country may not work in another. The product and value proposition may not be compelling in a different country. The customer segment might not be large or exist in a different country(high end car market is not as large in Africa).

Companies like toyota focus on their resources, capability, core competencies, and competitive advantage. They can go into any country figure out the market, figure out the roads and conditions. They can prototype and test a product in a region in south east asian that has a lot of mud, humidity, and so on. Therefore they can create a smaller cheaper car with different features for south east asian market. And use different marketing channels to promote to them. Toyota focuses on their abilities so to speak.And use their effective abilities to be able to make a high value low to mid priced car in any region. They have the best reliability, and durability.

In conclusion, a company wants to build up superior ability so to speak. Then create the right value proposition, branding, marketing/promotion for the target audience.

The best way to make your company’s product more recognizable in the market is to create a powerful brand identity. Developing a strong brand identity involves building a consistent message, values, and visuals that will resonate with your target audience. Here are some practical steps you can take to make your product stand out:

Identify Your Target Audience: Start by doing research about who would be likely interested in your products or services and how you could reach them. This will help you craft an effective marketing strategy that resonates with the right people.

Create An Engaging Logo: A memorable logo helps build recognition for your product in the market — it’s often the first thing customers will associate with your business or product when they see it online or on packaging. Make sure yours reflects the personality of what you offer, stands out from competitors, and intrigues potential customers enough to learn more about it.

Establish Consistent Brand Messaging: Whether through blog posts, social media content, email campaigns etc., establishing clear brand messaging across all channels is essential for creating customer recognition for what you offer and developing a sense of familiarity between them and your brand image/style/voice of communication etc.. When each piece of content associated with your brand reinforces this same overarching message – people start taking notice!

Utilize Visual Marketing Strategies: There's no denying visual content performs better than any other type on social media platforms e..g Instagram influencer marketing or using visuals such as images & videos on YouTube –which are popular amongst different age groups–to get people talking & generate discussion around topics related to what you have available — ultimately helping create awareness among target audiences & increase sales !

Absolutely true! Think you made an hybrid umbrella that can tolerate storms and winds very easily and is 10 times much stronger than the regular umbrella. But when it comes to sell your product you choosed to sell it to a whole seller without informing its qualities or you just sat in the market with a group of regular umbrella sellers and you don't try to make much difference. Its all waste if you don't market your idea, not the product but the idea behind it needs marketing. Think if you present your idea in front of a big renowned umbrella company or investors, don't you think you could be the next brand rather then being a mere retailer or whole seller or even a manufacturer. If its not marketed properly it won't work that fine. Huge brands being respectable and renowned invest a big share in promoting and advertising their products and its usually worth it.