Healthy Competition: Product Marketing | Competitive Intelligence | Strategy

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April Dunford is the world's leading expert on positioning for B2B tech companies and the author of 'Obviously Awesome' as well as the newly released 'Sales Pitch.' We focused on how competitive intel and positioning intersect in business: - bashing "approaches," not competitors - the importance of positioning your competitors - when to mention competitors (and when t...

Emir Atli is the Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer at HockeyStack, a GTM analytics platform for B2B companies to analyze, forecast, and optimize their marketing. I joked with Emir that I feel like HockeyStack came out of nowhere but are now a constant presence in my LinkedIn feed. We dove into the reason for that, as well as Emir's thoughts on: what to do when competitors lie about your product...

Jess Petrella is the Director of Product Marketing at Unbounce and the creator of multiple templates dedicated to helping Product Marketers succeed with AI. In this episode, we dove into: her favorite PMM workflows that incorporate AI her favorite AI tool among the many that she's tested mistakes she made during her AI research that you can avoid And lots more! Follow Jess: LinkedIn Check out...

In this episode, I was joined by Jason Oakley and Tamara Grominsky. They're both career Product Marketers that have led a ton of great launches over the years for companies like Klue, Unbounce, and Kajabi. We're all working together on a course for Product Marketers called Ready for Launch - The PMM's Guide to Product Launches , so I thought it'd be fun to share insider stories on...

Brooklin Nash is the Co-Founder of Beam Content, a content marketing agency that helps B2B SaaS companies create expert-driven content so that they can build trust with their buyers. Brooklin shared a great blog the other day that prompted me to reach out titled, "I gave a generative AI tool, a content farm, and a writer the same prompt. Here's what happened." It had me wondering how...

Evan Huck is the CEO & Co-Founder of UserEvidence, the customer voice platform that automates social proof for GTM teams, generating verified case studies, testimonials, and stats in minutes. I’ve been a fan of UserEvidence for a while, so it was great to sit down with Evan and hear about their growth and how they’re standing out in a sea of GTM tools. By the end of this episode, you’ll learn:...

This session was recorded live in the Healthy Competition community (healthycompetition.co). If you're into this kind of content, we'd love to have you! Yi Lin Pei is a career coach for product marketing, marketing and no-code tech roles. And in this live session, we chatted about what folks can do to find their dream jobs. A few topics we discussed: How to negotiate compensation packages...

This session was recorded live in the Healthy Competition community (healthycompetition.co). If you're into this kind of content, we'd love to have you! Jessica Davis is the Manager of Competitive Intelligence at HubSpot, and she shared a ton of great details about the program that her team has put together. how they got buy-in from their leadership team to invest in the CI team's head...

Harvey Lee is the VP of Product Marketing at the Product Marketing Alliance. He's also a musician and spent lots of time in the music industry. I'm a musician too, so we geeked out about all things rock n' roll—history, specific bands, moments in time—and tweezed out what we felt PMMs could learn from them. Here are some specific topics we covered: Why bands pivot and change their soun...

Harvey Lee is the VP of Product Marketing at the Product Marketing Alliance. He's also a musician and spent lots of time in the music industry. I'm a musician too, so we geeked out about all things rock n' roll—history, specific bands, moments in time—and tweezed out what we felt PMMs could learn from them. Here are some specific topics we covered: Why bands pivot and change their soun...

Eldad is the Co-Founder & CEO of WINN.AI, a real-time AI assistant that helps sales teams save time on busywork and win more deals. I learned about WINN.AI through a viral guerilla marketing campaign—they coordinated with 100+ sales influencers to record and post videos smashing their keyboards. It completely took over my LinkedIn feed, and I had to learn more. In this interview, we chatted about:...

Derek Osgood is the Founder & CEO of Ignition, a collaborative hub to plan, execute, and measure go-to-market launches. He worked as a Product Marketer across multiple industries, such as gaming, banking, and SaaS, and now he's building the platform he wished he always had. In this interview, we talked about: what it was like being a PMM for Playstation his journey of going from PMM to fou...

Mayur Palta has led Competitive Intel at some of the world's most valuable companies. And he just published a book with the lessons he learned along the way. In this episode we dive into: what CEOs don't understand about Competitive Intel memorable competitive campaigns between Oracle, AWS, and Salesforce how to build your "compete" muscle with the Outcompete Operating System the...

Ranee is a Product Marketing leader with 17+ years experience developing marketing and product strategy for global brands and VC-backed tech startups. In this episode, we discuss burnout. Specifically: why it plagues Product Marketers how to detect if you're burnt out (vs. just having a bad day / week) what to do when you feel it creeping into your life the ideal future of Product Marketing An...

Tamara is the VP Product Marketing at Kajabi, an all-in-one platform that helps creators and entrepreneurs package their knowledge into profitable online courses, coaching programs, membership sites, and more. Tamara is also a creator herself, writing a newsletter and moderating a community both called PMM Office Hours. Here's what we chatted about: Her journey from Product Marketing to Chief...

This episode was recorded live in the Healthy Competition community with Sam Rinaldo, Competitive Intel at Lucid, and Tracy Berry, Competitive Intel at Freshworks. Both Sam and Tracy spent a portion of their careers in the government intel space before pivoting to the corporate side. After listening through, you'll learn: how their backgrounds gave them a leg up when they transitioned to the t...

Anand Sanwal is the Co-Founder & CEO of CB Insights, a tech marketplace platform that enables organizations to make buying decisions quickly and with confidence. We covered lots of ground in this episode—there should be something in here for just about anyone: lessons from growing the CB Insights newsletter to nearly a million subscribers "human-in-the-loop" as a differentiator, and...

Bobby Pinero is the CEO & Co-Founder of Equals, the only spreadsheet with built-in connections to any database, versioning, and collaboration. I've joked that every company's biggest competitor is Excel, so it was fun to learn how Bobby and the team at Equals are actually positioning against it. There's a lot to learn from this interview: identifying best fit early adopters for you...

Anthony Kennada is the Co-Founder & CEO at AudiencePlus, the first owned media software for marketers, enabling companies to build, engage, and monetize an owned audience. In this episode, you'll learn how some of the most successful companies today own their audiences vs. rent them on social media platforms or paid ads. As well as: the community-to-media flywheel how Anthony helped create...

Ryan Sorley is the Founder of DoubleCheck Research, a win-loss analysis provider that was recently acquired by Klue. We talked about all things (you guessed it) win-loss and broke down everything you need to build a successful program. Some other topics we touched on: behind Ryan's decision to grow DoubleCheck and eventually join Klue vs. staying small and going the solopreneur route what surp...

President's Club isn't just for Sales anymore! In this live session from the Healthy Competition community, I spoke with Mayur Palta, Competitive Intel Lead from Databricks, and Tirrah Switzer, Sr. Director of PMM at Community Brands—both recently made President's Club at their companies. We discussed their company's requirements for making President's Club, the projects they w...

Jarod Greene is the VP of Product & Customer Marketing at Highspot. Prior to becoming a PMM, he worked as a Research Director at Gartner. Analyst Relations has always been a big question mark for me (and a lot of PMMs that I know), so we made sure to cover how to build a successful AR program and what to do if you aren't ranked highly on a grid or magic quadrant. If you were handed AR as a...

Juan Mendoza is the CEO & Editor of The Martech Weekly, a curated newsletter of everything that happens in marketing and technology. In this episode, he shared his backstory of starting a weekly newsletter, the power of social media, what he thinks about imposter syndrome, and why he's glad he didn't start a Substack. Follow Juan: LinkedIn Subscribe to The Martech Weekly: Website Conti...