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At Olivine, we’ve refined our framework over time by crafting effective positioning and messaging for dozens of companies. In this blog post, we’ll take a closer look at real examples of how we evolved positioning and messaging for our clients.
When thinking about product marketing, social media usually isn’t top of mind. But social media can be leveraged for product marketing. Dive in to see how.
You’ve developed a great product and now it’s time to create a marketing campaign for it. You just need to know one thing before you can get started—WTF is a marketing campaign?! A basic political campaign structure can be a useful model for learning how to put together a winning product marketing campaign.
Storytelling is an important part of product marketing, but is often left only for the time of launch. There are overlooked opportunities to use storytelling during the entire product life cycle that can make those launches more successful. Here we discuss how good storytelling can be effective in bringing together stakeholders and getting cross department buy-in.
Olivine co-founder Raechel Lambert was a guest speaker at Wynter Games 11: Competing and winning (in saturated markets). Launching MVPs is dead. Enter the Minimum Marketable Product — laser-focused positioning and story-first product development.
Learn how early-stage startups can craft a compelling product positioning strategy to stand out in their consumers’ minds.
What exactly is product marketing – and does your startup need to hire someone to do it? How is it any different from growth marketing – and which one is right for your company?
Why does your product exist? How is it unique? What value does it provide? Great positioning and messaging answer these questions and ultimately guide how you tell the story only you can tell. Let’s talk about how to execute positioning, messaging, and copywriting effectively.
An accurate buyer persona stops you from wasting thousands of dollars on ads that don’t convert.
8 min read. In our latest workshop, we’re taking you behind the scenes with Russ Thau, Founder & CEO of Redjay to show you how positioning & messaging come together in the early days.
5 min read. Jai Patel is on a mission to inspire busy people to maintain a healthy lifestyle with JUV, a juice press that pairs with the blender you already own. With design, prototyping, and production complete, he’s using The Founder’s Marketing Playbook to clarify JUV’s messaging and sell his first units.
55 min watch. In this talk we work with Santiago Suarez Ordonez, CEO & Co-Founder of Momentum to go beyond MVP and identify their Minimum Marketable Product to plan their next launch.
6 min read. This is one of the most useful marketing tactics for crafting great product messaging. It fosters creativity, forces brevity, and drives lively discussions, and helps build consensus.
46 min watch. In this talk, we introduce the fundamentals of personas that will help you build an understanding of who your customers are which is critical to effectively designing, building, marketing, and selling products. Then we do a live working session with Santiago Suarez Ordonez, CEO & Co-Founder of Momentum to work through building their Proto-Personas.
5 min read. We've worked with dozens of founders who insist they "know" who their target audience is, but it's only after we've guided them through this persona process that they see how much information, understanding, and empathy has yet to be fleshed out.
6 min read. Jobs to Be Done is an innovation framework that will help you differentiate in a crowded market, innovate on a mature product, and market effectively to customers.
7 min read. How you position your product will make or break your company. A product can be re-framed in the minds of consumers without changing a single thing about the product.
6 min read. A pervasive mistake I see is companies waiting to start thinking about how they’ll announce their product. The excuse is always that they’re too busy building product. But building an MVP without a strong plan for the announcement will become a launch that falls flat. Instead build the MMP, Minimum Marketable Product.
52 min watch. In this talk with Grand Central Tech, we introduce the concepts of Jobs To Be Done, share real-world examples, and do a live working session with Matt Giffune, the CEO and Co-Founder of Occupier, a real estate success platform.
Taking a new product to market is a daunting task and it can be hard to know where to begin. Start by truly understanding customers and competitors to find the story that only you can tell.
The popular analogy that product managers put product on the shelf and product marketers get it off the shelf is fundamentally wrong. The best products are built with the market in mind–and product marketing should contribute long before anything gets put on a shelf.
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