Successful product launches help propel and accelerate your business. In this session, learn about how HubSpot launches products, and how the success of those launches is measured. In this session you'll learn:
- A framework for planning your own product launches
- Helpful tips & tricks before, and on launch day
- How you can measure launches, and report on their success internally
7. Product Manager Product Marketing Manager
Work as a part of a small autonomous team to define, and understand a problem
then deliver a solution.
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12. Product launches are a lot like overnight success. Many
think they just happen.
In reality, a lot of planning and hard work goes into a
successful launch.
13. 1. How differentiating is this change?
2. How intuitive is this change?
There are two questions we ask for every release:
14. A quick example of non marketable, and intuitive
1. Settings layout change
2. Navigation change
23. What should you do with the Press Release?
• Share it with your Product Manager
• If you have a copywriter on staff, get any suggestions from them
• Reduce, and revise
38. What is Product Nation?
• Once-a-month meeting with stakeholders from each department to discuss
latest product updates, feedback, and plans. Led by Product Marketing, but
some of the folks involved are:
• Product Manager
• Support Product Expert
• Services Product Expert
• Sales Product Expert
• Implementation Specialist
• Inbound Professor (HubSpot Academy)
• Sales Engineering
42. For a Large INBOUND Release:
• Run the Launch Process we went through, but we’ll add:
• Message Testing - Generally 25+ weeks ahead of release
• Video - Write script and work with in-house video team to produce
• Case Study - We will always have a case study, or multiple, for a
large scale release.
• Nurturing - Nurturing campaigns are launched while the keynote is
being delivered
• New Web Content/Tools - New pages/microsites/or tools are
launched while the keynote is being delivered
46. What is Tuna Season?
• Tuna season is when we look across the market at industry trends,
look at a lot of our own internal data and deeply think about what’s
coming next.
• From a launch standpoint we are generally releasing smaller releases
in this stage, so while we may not actively be working on new
launches we work on helping sales.
48. What is Seed Season?
• This is when new product development starts.
• For Product Marketing, this is also when we immediately start to
develop a Total Addressable Market