Here's how we helped Julie Taylor, Product Marketing Director at Introhive

Product Marketing Consulting

Clarify your ideal customer profile. Craft and test your positioning messages. A Product Marketing Consulting for B2B founders + product marketing leaders in software and technology companies. With methods based on the behavioral science of the Diffusion of Innovations.

WHAT is product marketing?

Product marketing is a strategic business discipline at the intersection of your market, your sales team, your marketing team, your product team, and your partnerships team.

Product marketing strategy helps a product or brand develop and implement effective go-to-market strategies for its products or services.

Product marketers can provide valuable insights and guidance on identifying target markets, positioning products in the market, pricing strategies, and developing messaging and value propositions that resonate with customers.

WHY is product marketing important?

By working with a product marketing service provider, startups and technology companies can highlight and communicate competitive advantages by creating unique value propositions that differentiate their products from competitors. This can lead to increased sales and revenue growth.

Moreover, product marketing agencies can help identify new opportunities in the market and recommend new product features or enhancements that align with customer needs and preferences.

We can also assist in developing go-to-market plans that ensure successful product launches and ongoing sales success.

HOW can our product marketing consultancy help?

These are the most common symptoms we help to solve with product marketing consulting services. If this sounds familiar, we can help you.

You feel uncertain about your positioning and competitive strengths to win in your market.

Your strategic positioning is based on internal guessing, not market beliefs and facts.

Your product/company is described differently across content sources and channels.

You feel that your product launches and press releases are going nowhere.

You have a vague or no prioritization of growth opportunities and target segments.

Your product is not included in roundups by industry analysts or research companies.

Your market doesn't get what you do or why to chose you over other alternatives and competitors.

Your competitors are perceived as better, or your product is in the wrong competitive set.

Alliances and partners are difficult to secure.

You have an incomplete understanding of the value drivers for your target audience.

Your sales reps, marketing, and other channels create and use their own positioning.

Your sales team complains about "high prices" and long sales cycles.

Some of the tech leaders we've helped

Introhive: From product concept to a go-to-market strategy to overcome market objections and identify the path to sustainable growth.

THE CHALLENGE

Julie Taylor, Director of Product Marketing at Introhive, contacted us to launch a new product. When she told us about their need to introduce a software innovation in the sales tech space, she had the experience, expertise, and team to make it happen.

However, like many of our clients, Julie needed to extend her in-house team with strategy consulting expertise to bring an objective perspective on how the product would fit into Introhive’s perceived market position. Also, market-test the concept, prioritize their target market, craft differentiated messages, and design a complete product offering to drive product adoption by overcoming target customer objections.

Many of the go-to-market strategy core elements were there. They just needed to be focused, clarified, validated, and put together into a strategic plan aligned with how technology buying decisions are made (see Low-Risk Recipe™).

THE SOLUTION

We worked as an integrated extension of Introhive’s product marketing team, helping Julie’s team to gain an innovation adoption and market strategy perspective to bring new products to market.

We performed a market analysis by gathering feedback on the product concept from influencing experts in the market ecosystem of Introhive. We also conducted customer research interviews. This helped the team understand current market beliefs, the competitive landscape, and potential objections to adopting the new product. 

Armed with the market analysis findings, we designed:

  • Ideal customer profile.
  • Complete solution offering to drive market support by reducing objections and adoption frictions.
  • Messaging platform, value proposition.
  • Sales enablement assets aligned with market beliefs.
  • Messages to onboard early adopters for the beta program.
  • Product, sales & marketing alignment plan.
  • Beta program & product launch roadmap of activities.


We also advised an early adopter program execution to continue learning and refining the GTM strategy.

Julie was so delighted with the results that she extended our initial engagement to design and advise on go-to-market strategies for the success of their new products and innovations.

Sincrolab: 50% sales cycle and CAC reduction by enhancing the market position with a new segmentation and ideal customer profile.

THE CHALLENGE

After closing a financing round in late 2021, Sincrolab had a runaway of 18 months. They needed to make the most of their funding round to gain as much traction as possible and secure the next round before mid-2023.

Sincrolab approached its demand generation strategy by generating sales through BOFU lead generation tactics with a broad positioning. They also invested in advertising and hired sales closers. At the same time, their product offering was based on heavily developing a core product with multiple features.

Five months after working with this strategy, Rebeca, the new CMO at Sincrolab, thought they might be having go-to-market inefficiencies delaying their growth. They had too many low-quality leads, very long sales cycles, and high CAC. 

THE SOLUTION

Rebeca confirmed her suspicions after talking with our product marketing consultants: they were using hyped mainstream tactics, whereas Sincrolab was creating a new market: prescription-based digital therapeutics for ADHD. 

A mainstream GTM strategy doesn’t work for early markets – and the other way around.

We acted as trusted Product Marketing leaders for Rebeca, who used our proprietary gtm model based on how new technologies and innovations are accepted and bought by humans. 

Sincrolab moved away from a broad positioning by narrowing down its primary target market and value proposition. They divested generalist advertising and invested a reduced amount in targeting the new persona. Also, they reallocated sales closing (BOFU) resources to develop and educate their early market (TOFU).

Lastly, Sincrolab applied The Brand Differentiation Wheel™ to build a lower-risk perception value proposition. The Wheel guided them in creating a new service to prescribe its software with in-house psychologists instead of spending all its product investments on software developers to build new core features. This has proved to be instrumental in reducing sales cycles.

THE RESULTS

A quarter into the implementation of the new strategy, Rebeca’s team achieved:

  • 50% sales velocity acceleration
  • 48% CAC reduction
  • x2 B2B closing rates

After our engagement, Rebeca loved our angle and team, and joined us as a health tech expert.

Product marketing consulting offerings

All our product marketing consulting programs start with a risk-free online workshop to analyze your current situation and test the waters before you invest more money and time.

Certainty Package

Clarify + test your product marketing strategy in 4 weeks.

Everything in the Clarity package, plus:

Segment your market and prioritize customer profiles.

Guidance on the right product to build.

Test the positioning messages with your target audience by using Wynter.

Adjust or pivot your product marketing deliverables with the feedback from the market tests.

Build your product launch plan (or repositioning) sequence.

Clarity
Package

Clarify your product marketing strategy in 2 weeks.

Clarify and define your Ideal Customer Profile.

Craft a Value Proposition that resonates with your ICP.

Create a differentiated product positioning and messaging platform.

Define your market ecosystem, the marketing and sales channels to stimulate word of mouth, and (re)position your product.

Implementation Roadmap.

Product Marketing Studio

Get a full-service Product Marketing function for a fraction of a full-time salary.

Everything in the Certainty package, plus:

Remove yourself from Product Marketing or extend your team's capacity.

Get business management coaching and best practices from a senior manager with 10+ years of experience leading GTM teams in B2B software.

Rethink your pricing and packaging to drive more revenue.

Align your product, sales team, and marketing teams with tailored product marketing workshops.

Create your marketing and sales enablement assets (pitches, landing pages...).

Build ecosystem relationships, partners

Educate your market with content.

Set up your Product Marketing technology stack, process, and team.

We'll lead your go-to-market process.

→ 100% flexible approach. We'll be fully embedded in your organization and work towards the OKRs we define together.

(*) All the product marketing programs start with an online risk-free workshop to analyze your current situation and test our fit.

What exactly can we do for you: product marketing deliverables

Sales & Marketing Enablement

Marketing and sales assets for events

Product landing pages

Product pitch and battlecards

GTM strategy workshops and cross-functional collaboration sessions

Product or Brand Positioning Strategy

Customer,  competitor and market research

Target market or ICP identification

Ideal Customer Profile Development

Value Proposition Design

Positioning and messaging playbooks and guides

Validation, launch & Distribution

Messaging and Value Proposition testing

Channel, ecosystem and partner strategy and identification

Product launch communications plan

Early customer seeking, onboarding, and interviews

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