Product Marketing Rule #37: Get Close and Personal with Your Customers

Product Marketing Rule #37 from the best-selling book, 42 Rules of Product Marketing, was written by Natalie Yan-Chatonsky, Product Strategy Consultant, Brainmates Product marketers can now engage more intimately with more customers than ever. Talking regularly to both customers and non-customers is the basis for successful product marketing planning and execution. Conversations can easily be carried…

Product Marketing Rule #18: Use Online Metrics for Product Marketing Success

Product Marketing Rule #18 from the best-selling book, 42 Rules of Product Marketing, was written by Dan Olsen, Product Management Consultant, Olsen Solutions LLC Using these online metrics will help you measure your product marketing efforts and make them more successful. Products are increasingly delivered and marketed online. Tracking a product’s online metrics has grown in importance and…

Product Management Rule #16: Get Out of the Office

It is our natural tendency to overestimate the importance that our product holds within the lives of our customers. Spend some time to see firsthand where your product fits into the holistic picture of a customer’s life. Understanding the Whole Picture in Product Management A good product manager can access loads of data. You can review market research demographics, sales numbers,…

Product Marketing Rule #13: Emulate Twitter!

Product Marketing Rule #13 from the best-selling book, 42 Rules of Product Marketing, was written by Cindy F. Solomon, Founder,The Global Product Management Talk @prodmgmttalk The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what make it so powerful. – Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard Law professor, Internet Expert @zittrain In an Agile world, product marketers must employ the…

Product Marketing Rule #12: Reinvent Word of Mouth Marketing

Product Marketing Rule #12 from the best-selling book, 42 Rules of Product Marketing, was written by Nick Coster, Co-founder, Brainmates Word of mouth communication can be so effective that people can quite often discard  other information that might indicate competing messages. There are a variety of statistics that demonstrate the difference and impacts between positive and negative…