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1. Natalia Godyla
ngodyla@gmail.com
Building a Weatherproof Framework:
How to Survive the Product Launch
Storm in a New Market

2. Tabletop Exercises
● Have you ever experienced a similar scenario?
● What additional challenges would you anticipate?
● How do you remediate the challenge?
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3. Tabletop Exercise #1
Sales Enablement
• You have been in the business of selling IT software for 20+ years, and are now
moving into cybersecurity.
• You have a seasoned sales team that is more familiar with selling storage than data
security, and don’t have relationships with the new target persona.
• The initiative included hiring security specialist salespeople, which led to a mixed
level of expertise for sales enablement.
• You don't have buy-in from key sales leaders on pushing their team to shift to
security selling.
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4. Tabletop Exercise #2
Product Development
• You are in a growth-stage company expanding its strategy to a new market.
• The engineering team is strapped, and launch deadlines run up against
development.
• You find out feature-level information only a couple weeks before the launch
and have to remain agile throughout the process.
• This includes managing communication of relevant changes to your marketing
and sales teammates (content, demand gen).
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5. Tabletop Exercise #3
Sales Motion & Product Positioning
• Your sales reps are used to selling use cases (ie. everything under the sun with
the help of professional services).
• The sales team is reluctant to sell a new product with a defined feature set,
making it difficult to maintain momentum, while also narrowing scope.
• On the other hand, the executive-suite is a pushing towards a product sell to
reduce costly PS.
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Tabletop Exercise #4
Messaging
• Your brand is globally known for financial consulting, and all top-level
messaging is indicative of it.
• The product-level messaging for your new GRC platform targets a different
audience (compliance), with a different message.
• There is no larger initiative to shift messaging in the near term.
• Many of the marketing stakeholders are unfamiliar with the new space.
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Tabletop Exercise #5
Competitive Positioning
• You are still in growth stages, and are slowly getting brand recognition.
• Market entry is validated by several big competitors entering the market at
once.
• The new competitors are starting to show up in your accounts and prospecting.
• In addition, there is a large competitive landscape, making it difficult to show
differentiation.
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8. Natalia Godyla
ngodyla@gmail.com
Thank you!