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Cracking the Product Marketing Code

By : Iman Bayatra, Daniel Kuperman
Book Image

Cracking the Product Marketing Code

By: Iman Bayatra, Daniel Kuperman

Overview of this book

In the ever-evolving product landscape, the significance of building the right product and bringing it effectively to the right market cannot be overstated. With this book, you’ll learn how to bridge the gap between your product and the market to meet customer needs effectively. Equipped with a comprehensive understanding of product marketing and its key functions—inbound and outbound strategies—you’ll discover how these strategies interweave throughout the product launch process and how to effectively leverage them to bring a product to market. This product marketing book will help you master the inbound strategies, influencing product development by conducting market and customer research, analyzing the competitive landscape, identifying customer segments, and building buyer personas to identify gaps and drive product innovation. Next, you’ll get to grips with outbound strategies, the driving force behind product adoption and sustained exponential growth. You’ll create and test messaging and positioning, build the go-to-market (GTM) plan, enable your sales team to maximize effectiveness, and ensure a product-market fit throughout the different stages of the buyer journey with impactful collaboration internally and externally for creating value. By the end of this book, you’ll have transformed into a product marketing expert enhancing product innovation, driving product adoption, and accelerating growth.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Introduction
5
Part 2 – Driving Product Enhancement with Inbound Strategies
10
Part 3 – Outbound: Strategies for Product Adoption and Exponential Growth
14
Part 4 – Impactful Collaboration and Value Creation

Identifying your ideal market

To develop an effective GTM strategy , it is crucial to have a deep understanding of the market environment in which your product or service will be introduced. Before delving into the details of GTM planning, comprehensive research and analysis are of utmost importance. To accomplish this, it's crucial to fully immerse yourself in the intricacies of the market. This entails gaining a comprehensive understanding of its dynamics and delving into the pain points that potential customers are experiencing. Additionally, evaluating the existing solutions currently accessible in the market becomes imperative to determine what options are already in place.

By examining the competitive landscape, you can gain valuable insights into the market gaps and opportunities that your offering can fill. Understanding how your product or service differentiates itself from similar offerings is crucial for effective positioning . It allows you to showcase its unique value...