Loved - (Silicon Valley Product Group) by Martina Lauchengco (Hardcover)

About the Book

"In today's hyper-competitive market, how a product is taken to market is at least as important as the product itself. It is no longer enough for marketers and product teams to just announce their product is superior. Even if what a product does is unique, others claim they do the same things, leaving customers very confused. As a result, product marketing for tech products has never been harder...or more important. This book explains what it really takes to bring a technology product successfully to market. The frameworks are simple but powerful and easy to deploy. They address how to adapt product marketing to more agile development cycles, how to stand out when other products do similar things, and how to position products and companies with thoughtful execution of strategy versus simply 'doing marketing.' It takes the best of 'classic' positioning, messaging and product marketing and applies these practices to modern realities of the tech and customer landscape."--

Book Synopsis

Most tech companies get marketing wrong because they don't know how to do product marketing right. The next in the bestselling SVPG series, LOVED shows what leaders like Apple, Netflix, Microsoft, and Salesforce do well and how to apply it to transform product marketing at your company.

The best products can still lose in the marketplace. Why? They are beaten by products with stronger product marketing. Good product marketing is the difference between "also-ran" products versus products that lead. And yet, product marketing is widely misunderstood. Although it includes segmenting customers, positioning your product, creating product collateral, and supporting sales teams, great product marketing achieves much more. It directs the best way to bring your product to market. It shapes what the world thinks about your product and category. It inspires others to tell your product's story.

Part of the bestselling series including INSPIRED and EMPOWERED, LOVED explains the fundamentals of best-in-class product marketing for product teams, marketers, founders and any leader with a product and a vision.

Sharing her personal stories as a former product and marketing leader at Microsoft and Netscape, and as an advisor to Silicon Valley startups, venture capitalist, and UC Berkeley engineering graduate school lecturer, Martina Lauchengco distills decades of lessons gleaned from working with hundreds of companies to make LOVED the definitive guide to modern product marketing.

With dozens of stories from the trenches of market leaders as well as newer startups with products just beginning their journey, the book shows you:

• the centrality of product marketing to any product's success
• the key skills and actions required to do it well
• the four fundamentals of product marketing and how to apply them
• how to hire, lead, and organize product marketing
• how product marketers optimize crucial collaboration with other functions
• one-sheet frameworks, tools and agile marketing practices that help simplify and elevate product marketing

LOVED is an invitation to rethink tired notions of product marketing and practice a more dynamic, customer and market-centric version that creates raving fans and helps products achieve their full market potential.

From the Back Cover

PRAISE FOR LOVED

"There really hasn't been a definitive book on the art and science of product marketing, and companies have struggled to bring a strategic approach to the discipline. But now there is! LOVED is a hands-on guide to help marketers excel at the fundamentals of product marketing. Martina brings a wealth of real-world experience to this book, as a marketing executive herself. Put simply, I loved LOVED. You will too."
--JON MILLER, CMO, Demandbase; former Co-founder, Marketo

"A must-read for business leaders who want their products to not just be launched, but to be loved by customers. Martina demystifies why some great products ascend to great heights and why some fizzle. Focused on technology but relevant to all, this book unravels the mysteries of product- market fit at every phase of growth with accessible examples and relevant tips."
--TATYANA MAMUT, PhD, SVP Product, Pendo; former GM, AWS, Amazon

"I didn't realize how powerful product marketing could be until I saw it done really well. It completely changed what I thought was possible and made me rethink how to structure a marketing team. Martina's book shows the rest of the world how to succeed in product marketing. She is a force of nature."
--DOUG CAMPLEJOHN, CEO, Airspee; former GM, Sales Cloud, Salesforce

"Great products deserve great product marketing. LOVED debunks the common myths of product marketing and serves as a practical guide to help you cut through the noise. Martina is a CMO's best friend."
--ROBERT CHATWANI, CMO, Atlassian

"Our industry has needed the definitive book on product marketing for so long, and with LOVED, Martina has finally written it. This book is essential reading for tech startups but applies just as much for mature companies wanting to do product marketing better."
--SARAH LEARY, Co-founder, NextDoor

About the Author

MARTINA LAUCHENGCO is the product marketing partner at Silicon Valley Product Group and a partner at Costanoa Ventures, a boutique early-stage venture capital firm. Martina worked at Microsoft and Netscape, two of the most formative tech companies of all time, before advising startups and Fortune 500 companies. A lecturer in the engineering graduate program at UC Berkeley, her work has been featured in TechCrunch and VentureBeat.

Martina received her BA and MA from Stanford University. An avid cyclist, runner and snowboarder, she lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children.

Twitter: @mavinmartina
LinkedIn: martinalauchengco
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