
Explore how product marketing defies intuition and reveals surprises that contradict conventional wisdom, and learn why scale, economies of scale, and market share matter for targeting, messaging, and positioning.
Define the primary and secondary outcomes and target market in a one-page product marketing plan template. Identify value propositions, seven marketing tactics, and execution steps with a calendar and optimization.
Walk through a basic profit formula: profit equals revenue minus expenses, or price minus cost times quantity, and learn how to raise revenue and cut costs.
Treat your marketing budget like a portfolio, balancing top, middle, and bottom funnel allocations through integrated marketing communications. Allocate to brand awareness and product education to fuel long-term revenue.
For further reference, please see Dr. James Anderson and the book Business Market Management
Use a SaaS positioning worksheet to brainstorm features, jobs to be done, and outcomes. Analyze pain points, category dynamics, and competition with qualitative and quantitative research to craft differentiated positioning.
Explore the marketing to revenue pipeline stages—MKL, MLS, MQLs, SAL, and sales qualified leads—and how granular tracking reveals bottlenecks and guides content and sales enablement.
Learn ethical strategies to build brand mind share on Reddit by engaging with relevant subreddits, answering questions, and providing value without spamming.
Empathize with customers and recognize diverse journeys beyond a linear path to acquisition. Create content for every stage—generating, nurturing, and converting leads—and optimize distribution, advertising, and influencer partnerships.
Map the modern customer journey from triggers to purchase using a McKinsey-based model for B2C and B2B, and tailor content to each stage to outperform competitors.
Explore how customer journey drives lead generation content, leveraging ten demand gen formats from infographics to ROI calculators, and map stages using CRM notes to intercept and convert with empathy.
Promote hard offers everywhere, convert prospects into MQLs, test them with AB experiments, and use lead scoring to decide when to present offers.
Discover how content syndication can target buyer-ready leads by paying per download or per lead, focusing on leads likely to buy within 12 months.
Nurture leads before the call to turn cold into warm calls that generate MQLs. Test lists, scripts, and channels like Facebook and LinkedIn to optimize MQL creation and drive demos.
Scale marketing with antidetect browsers that hide your digital fingerprint, create and manage multiple accounts across Facebook, Amazon, Gmail, and Google Ads, and avoid bans and restrictions.
Allocate your digital marketing budget to current shoppers and future shoppers, then structure six awareness stages—from brand unaware to paid offer unaware—and balance mass marketing with micro optimization.
Learn to use a digital marketing plan template with strategic and execution tabs, covering channels from marketplaces and search engine optimization to social ads, email, PR, and calendar-based planning.
Identify two digital marketing types: quick-profit campaigns targeting in-market audiences across YouTube, Google, Facebook, and Amazon, and long-term growth through Richards and partnerships.
Learn how to build an AI influencer business from scratch, monetize with premium content, subscriptions, and automated messages, and drive revenue through Fan View and affiliate links.
Learn how funnels turn traffic into profit by targeting dream customers with hook-story-offer, and building owned traffic through lists, partnerships, and affiliates.
Balance brand and direct response with convergence marketing to drive awareness and engagement, then classify leads by pains for targeted nurturing.
Explore the velocity scale in convergence marketing, blending direct response and brand marketing to reach velocity five, building mindshare with branding and a free offer.
Compare product marketing with service marketing, showing product marketing targets large markets and scales through value propositions, while professional services rely on niche specialization and high prices.
Think big about audience reach across channels; Google ads limit exposure to the in-market 5%, while LinkedIn offers a larger audience (about 71,000) than Facebook (about 70,000) in US, Canada.
Shift from minor a/b tests to big bets using audience overlap and LinkedIn website demographics. Target influencers and professionals, such as developers and executives, with partnership and industry-focused campaigns.
Learn how paid campaigns leverage virality by measuring viral KPIs—impressions, clicks, reactions, and comments—to create word-of-mouth reach beyond paid media.
Four lessons from Bud Light marketing: pursue mass marketing against core segments, avoid value destruction from features, align with self-interest via inclusive messaging, and limit publicity for big brands.
Explore Grant Cardone's ten X rule to boost customer acquisition through massive action, brand awareness, and market domination, emphasizing attention, mental availability, and tenfold targets.
Master persuasive app messaging by applying Cialdini's drivers—scarcity, consensus (social proof), authority, reciprocity, consistency, and liking—plus flattery to persuade users to buy, use features, or take action.
Learn to size markets and estimate demand using credible signals instead of private or limited public data, and beware inflated views, reviews, and subscribers manipulated by bots.
Learn to size new markets using primary research and panel data, quantify insights with surveys, and use panels to access representative buyers and demographic details.
Focus on absolute numbers over relative metrics to decide markets and revenue goals. Geographic scale and absolute revenue potential drive strategic market choice, localization, and infrastructure.
Navigate the uniqueness trap by weighing market size against niche appeal, avoiding blue ocean myths, and prioritizing large markets with meaningful absolute revenue over tiny, highly rated niches.
Partner with competitors to accelerate growth through joint development and IP sharing, expanding reach and improving engagement, retention, and lifetime value.
Explore descriptive market research, including surveys, and compare longitudinal versus cross-sectional methods, explaining how advertising creates long-term impact on market share.
Become a Product Marketing Manager. Learn from an experienced Silicon Valley Product Marketing Manager with a top MBA...
Learn how to become a product marketing manager from someone with years of experience in product marketing at small, medium, and large companies including Sony PlayStation & Google affiliated startups. Your lead instructor received his MBA from the top marketing school in the U.S. and works in the epicenter of product marketing in San Francisco. He is the author of two product marketing books, taught college-level marketing, and was a VP of marketing for a Google-accelerator startup.
New! Free access to the top-rated book Become a Product Marketing Manager (PDF version)
New! Product Marketing Calendar Template (Excel)
Templates (MS Word): 1-Page Product Marketing Plan + 1-Page Competitive Analysis Template
Marketing strategy, tactics, and execution for outbound product management (customer acquisition)
Preparation for a six-figure product marketing management position
Day-to-day operational skills
Advanced MBA level product marketing for product management
Hard skills in quantitative marketing analytics & software
Soft skills to succeed in the office and get promoted in product management & product marketing
Product owner marketing & customer acquisition
MBA level marketing management for product managers & product marketing managers
Business management skills
Product Management Marketing Course Content
Product marketing strategy & planning
Lead generation & customer acquisition (outbound product management)
How to go big with product marketing management
Product messaging
Key skills such as calendar management
Sizing markets & demand
Product marketing research
Investor marketing
Sales enablement
Product marketing career & education
Advanced B2B marketing
Product led growth
Advertising
Product marketing analytics
Soft skills
Chief Marketing Officer skills
Leadership & people management
Growth
Branding
Product Marketing Management Training
Chief Marketing Officer Training
Outbound Product Management Training
About Your Instructor
Product Marketing Management Experience
• Global Product Marketing Manager for Sony PlayStation
• Vice President of Marketing for Talkatoo
• Senior Product Marketing Manager for Webgility
• Product Marketing Manager for Rocket Lawyer (Google-backed)
• Director of Marketing for Ironclad Games / Flame Design
• SaaS Marketing Consultant
Marketing & Management Education
• MBA in Marketing from Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
• Leadership Essentials from Columbia Business School
• Bachelor of Commerce from Mount Allison University
• Master's and bachelor's-level business courses at BI: Norwegian Business School
• Presidential Scholar at Saint Mary's University
Academic & Volunteer Experience
• University MBA Program Advisor
• College Marketing Lecturer for Digital Marketing & Business Analytics
• Division Director and VP of Membership for Toastmasters International
• Board of Directors for a charity
Product Manager Marketing Skills
Akash Mandal
"Love the details and the book interpretations in this course. Will help me break the wheel and stand out as a top 1% PMM."
Pei-Chyi Hung
"This course is amazing and it truly deepens my understanding of product marketing. I love that the courses aren't just pulling numbers from thin air, it actually shows data to back their tactics up. Also, lots of the courses out there talk about high-level marketing strategy, while startup SaaS marketers often have to also know how to execute the strategy as they may be solo marketers in the company. For example, a very hands-on approach to doing ABM on LinkedIn + the software/tools marketers can use are very helpful in the module about ABM marketing. Last but not the least, Dekker introduced many good books (some academic, some easier to read) on the subject matter. I gave 4.5 stars because I figured that the content of each module can be reorganized to be more on-topic (some are a bit repetitive, but I understand that repetition is important in marketing :) ). It would also be great if more SaaS-specific examples can be provided, especially on the topic of PMM's role in leading product launches, feature updates, etc."
Covenant Chimnonso
"This course has provided me with a different, more advanced view of Product Marketing leadership and a more general view to approaching marketing generally. In addition to learning how to think around Product Marketing research and execution, this course has provided relevant insights that I believe will help me make better decisions with regards to other aspects of marketing like growth, branding, leadership and business intelligence."
Rahul B.
"This is an amazing crash course on Product Marketing and tasks as a PMM! I'm so used to superficial information in courses these days but this is jam-packed with pro tips and topics I didn't even think I knew I needed. With worksheets and an active Q&A section, I highly recommend this. I got it to prep for a PMM role, so I could take stock of what skills I had and what I needed to learn and this comprehensive overview helps with just that!"
Jodi-Ann Moore
"This course is amazing at preparing me for a PM/PMM role. I was super nervous about stepping into this role for a new job even though I have a master of science in marketing, but this course has helped me recall some important concepts as well as put together some great touch points for interviews and for what to do once I start my new job."