As I've mentioned, marketing experts have long warned against brand extension. You want your brand to stand for a single idea in the customer's mind. Focusing on no more than three key messages (or even just one) in your marketing campaign and can help you achieve this goal.
Your focused messages must pervade your entire product and marketing effort. Every piece of marketing collateral should communicate the message. Every press release should somehow refer to the message. You should be able to incorporate every seemingly insignificant choice of features in your product into your messaging story.
The Goal As a company executive, you want confidence that your product team (which includes all the people, from all departments, responsible for product success) has a sound basis for deciding which items are on the product roadmap. You also want confidence the team is prioritizing the items in a smart way. What Should We Prioritize? The items the team prioritizes could be features, user stories, epics, market problems, themes, or experiments. Melissa Perri makes an excellent case for a " problem roadmap ", and, in general, I recommend focusing on the latter types of items. However, the topic of what types of items you should prioritize - and in what situations - is interesting and important but beyond the scope of this blog entry. A Sad but Familiar Story If there is significant controversy about priorities, then almost inevitably, a product manager or other member of the team decides to put together The Spreadsheet. I've done it. Some of the mos
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