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Issue 18 May 2024 PMM Leadership & Team Operations

Product Marketing Across Functions

Explore how product marketing interacts with other business functions, from analyst relations and sales enablement to brand marketing and product management. Discover practical strategies for building influence and driving cross-functional success.

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Insights

How Industry Analysts Can Help You Land Your Next Promotion as a PMM

Product Marketing Managers are closer to Analyst Relations than many might think. In companies with lean AR programs, PMMs often take full responsibility for executing the AR strategy or occasionally briefing analysts. In larger organizations with dedicated AR managers, PMMs are essential in supporting the execution of these programs.

Terezia Batovska, an analyst relations manager at Bloomreach, believes that a strategic approach to working with industry analysts can significantly enhance your career as a PMM. In this article, she explores how you can leverage the industry analysts to become a leading expert in your market category, enhancing your value to your company and securing that next promotion.

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Featured Insights

Building an Effective Sales Enablement Strategy

Product marketing teams have all of the product and market knowledge that sales and customer success teams need and, in many circumstances, we also have a relationship with those teams that allows us to understand what they need and how we can help. However, sales enablement is an often overlooked strategy. It is often tacked on to product launches, tossed around like a hot potato, and generally approached as a vague tactic instead of a fully formed strategic discipline.

Megan Pratt, a fractional product marketing leader at Product Marketing House, believes it is a big mistake to overlook sales enablement strategy. She provides a comprehensive guide to how product marketing can help provide customer, market and product knowledge, to sales and customer success teams.

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Featured Podcast Episode
How Can Product Marketers Excel at Competitive Intelligence

In this episode, Crispin Read and Adam Houghton, Vice President of Customer Success at Klue, discuss the intersections of customer success and product marketing. He also shares his advice on how to build your competitive intelligence team and how to get started on competitive intelligence effectively.

Brand Marketing and Product Marketing: The Differences and The Relationship

In this episode, Tanu Kaushik, global senior product marketing manager at Quantium, joins Louise Liu to share her brand marketing and product marketing experiences. She also discusses some great examples from Quickbooks and Hubspot of how brand marketing and product marketing support each other.

Choosing Between Product Marketing and Product Management

In this episode, Louise Liu and Nishanth Kadiyala, the senior product manager at Walmart Connect, discuss product marketing and product management. Nishanth shares his thoughts on the similarities and differences between the two roles, and how to choose which is for you.