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The product marketing core framework

The product marketing core framework

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Written by Hannah Sangwin
Updated over 2 months ago

Product marketing is a multi-faceted role with many concepts to cover so you can launch successful products, satisfy your customers, and be acing your career.

This framework helps you navigate all those concepts through five fundamental stages. For each of the stages: discover, strategize, define, get set, and grow, you'll journey through to boost your understanding of pivotal topics.

By understanding each topic on the framework, you'll increase your competency every time to become a well-rounded product marketer.


Discovery

Equip yourself and your team with the info needed through customer feedback and competition research to formulate a strategy that’s relevant to your product and market.

  • Build business case

  • Competitor intel

  • Customer/market feedback

  • Market requirements

  • Why/loss analysis

  • Review and refine

  • Market research


Strategize

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail. A strategy that looks at barriers, opportunities, and data-backed methodologies is the first step towards creating a winning master plan.

  • Pricing

  • Retention and expansion

  • Objectives

  • Internal communication

  • Go-to-market

  • Use sales enablement

  • Acquisition

  • Barriers

  • Onboarding


Define

Define your market, identify your personas, and apply valuable insights gained in the discovery process to shape the customer journey and craft appropriate communication strategies.

  • Positioning

  • Segmentation

  • Narrative design

  • User personas

  • Messaging

  • Buyer personas

  • Storytelling

  • Use cases


Get set

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. Through training, collaboration sessions, and indispensable assets, equip other teams with all the knowledge they need to come with you.

  • Sales assets

  • Training

  • Sales enablement sessions

  • Marketing


Grow

Prolong your efforts with a post-launch process to ensure your product goes from strength to strength through analysis, optimization, feedback loops, and customer advocacy.

  • Case studies

  • Analysis

  • Optimization

  • Customer feedback

  • Prioritise tickets


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