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Issue 03 September 2020 PMM Leadership & Team Operations

Should Product Marketing Report to Product or Marketing?

Explore the product-versus-marketing reporting debate, Jobs-to-Be-Done, brand strategy, and the launch of the This Is Product Marketing podcast.

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Marketing QUIZ

🦴 Why didn’t the skeletons like their new CRM?

It was too bare-bones.

INSIGHTS - LEADERSHIP

Should product marketing report to product or marketing?

Often people ask where product marketing should report. Should the function report to the product organization or marketing?

There are no absolute right answers, but there is usually a correct answer for a given company at a given moment in time. So it depends, but on what does it depend?

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PODCAST

Product Marketing Hive Podcast: This Is Product Marketing

We are happy to announce that our podcast is now available wherever you listen to podcasts. This is Product Marketing dives deep into the world of product marketing, product management, and technology marketing. We will be interviewing thought leaders, marketing, and product legends. And all of our PMM Hive Talks will be available as podcasts, starting with Dave Kellogg on Hot and Cold Markets.

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"In the age of easy group-forming, the basic unit of measurement is not the segment but the tribe."

PMM Hive Talk
Does Silicon Valley Still Exist, Is It Still Relevant?

Jon Baer, co-author of Decoding Silicon Valley, and Crispin Read discussed the post-pandemic future of Silicon Valley.

People Hire Your Product to Get A Job Done

Join Crispin and an experienced practitioner and member of the PMM Hive community, Georgia Diaconescu to discover JTBD.

Up and To the Right: The Story of A Turnaround

Bruno Aziza, Group VP at Oracle, and Crispin Read talked about how Bruno’s team embraced the feedback of the community (customers, partners, and analysts) to reshape the direction of the Oracle Analytics strategy and its entire go-to-market.

Marketing in Hot and Cold Markets

Dave Kellogg and Crispin Read discussed the differences in marketing approaches for hot markets vs. cold markets.

Product Marketing Roadmap

John Kreisa, CMO at Docker, and Crispin Read discussed how to get started in product marketing, what it takes to excel as a PMM, and how product marketers can advance into other roles such as product or marketing leadership.