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Customer Marketing

Retention programs, advocacy initiatives, and expansion campaigns that grow revenue from existing customers.

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Champion Identification: Finding Power Users and Internal Advocates

Champion Identification: Finding Power Users and Internal Advocates

Every account has potential champions. Here's how to systematically identify and activate internal advocates who drive adoption and renewal.

November 30, 2025 7 min read
Customer Milestone Campaigns: Celebrating Customer Success to Drive Retention

Customer Milestone Campaigns: Celebrating Customer Success to Drive Retention

Customer milestones are retention opportunities. Here's how to design celebration campaigns that reinforce value and strengthen relationships.

November 30, 2025 7 min read
Customer Feedback Loops: Turning Customer Input Into Product Improvements

Customer Feedback Loops: Turning Customer Input Into Product Improvements

Collecting feedback is easy. Acting on it and closing the loop is hard. Here's how to build feedback systems that drive real improvements.

November 29, 2025 7 min read
User-Generated Content Programs: Activating Customers as Content Creators

User-Generated Content Programs: Activating Customers as Content Creators

Your marketing team can't create enough content. Your customers can. Here's how to build UGC programs that scale content creation.

November 29, 2025 7 min read
Customer Education Programs: Training That Drives Product Adoption

Customer Education Programs: Training That Drives Product Adoption

Customers who understand your product stay longer and spend more. Here's how to build education programs that drive adoption and retention.

November 28, 2025 7 min read
Customer Testimonial Strategy: Collecting and Using Social Proof

Customer Testimonial Strategy: Collecting and Using Social Proof

Generic testimonials don't persuade. Specific, outcome-focused social proof does. Here's how to collect and use testimonials that actually convert.

November 28, 2025 7 min read
Customer Newsletter Programs: Keeping Customers Engaged Post-Purchase

Customer Newsletter Programs: Keeping Customers Engaged Post-Purchase

Acquisition newsletters drive signups. Customer newsletters drive retention. Here's how to build newsletters that keep customers engaged.

November 27, 2025 7 min read
Executive Business Reviews: Presenting Value to Executive Buyers

Executive Business Reviews: Presenting Value to Executive Buyers

EBRs done poorly waste everyone's time. Done well, they cement executive relationships and drive expansion. Here's the framework that works.

November 27, 2025 7 min read
Customer Case Study Recruitment: Getting Customers to Say Yes to Case Studies

Customer Case Study Recruitment: Getting Customers to Say Yes to Case Studies

Marketing needs case studies. Customers say no. Here's how to recruit customers for case studies that actually get approved.

November 26, 2025 7 min read
Customer Marketing Metrics: Measuring Retention, Expansion, and Advocacy

Customer Marketing Metrics: Measuring Retention, Expansion, and Advocacy

Customer marketing needs different metrics than demand gen. Here's how to measure retention, expansion, and advocacy effectiveness.

November 26, 2025 7 min read
Customer Success Marketing Alignment: How PMM Supports Customer Success Teams

Customer Success Marketing Alignment: How PMM Supports Customer Success Teams

Customer Success and Marketing often work in silos. Here's how product marketers can enable CS teams to drive retention and expansion.

November 25, 2025 7 min read
Renewal Campaign Strategy: Marketing to Customers Before Contract Expiration

Renewal Campaign Strategy: Marketing to Customers Before Contract Expiration

Renewal conversations shouldn't start 30 days before expiration. Here's how to market renewals systematically across the customer lifecycle.

November 25, 2025 7 min read
Churn Prevention Playbooks: Intervening When Customers Show Warning Signs

Churn Prevention Playbooks: Intervening When Customers Show Warning Signs

Health scores identify at-risk customers. But what do you actually do about it? Here are the playbooks that save customers.

November 24, 2025 7 min read
Reference Customer Programs: Building a Roster of Customers Willing to Advocate

Reference Customer Programs: Building a Roster of Customers Willing to Advocate

Sales needs references. But asking happy customers randomly doesn't scale. Here's how to build systematic reference programs.

November 24, 2025 7 min read
Customer Community Building: Creating Communities That Drive Retention and Advocacy

Customer Community Building: Creating Communities That Drive Retention and Advocacy

Customer communities aren't just forums. When built strategically, they become retention engines that reduce churn and activate advocates.

November 23, 2025 7 min read
Customer Health Scoring: Identifying At-Risk Customers Early

Customer Health Scoring: Identifying At-Risk Customers Early

Reactive churn prevention fails. Predictive health scoring identifies at-risk customers months early, when you can still save them.

November 23, 2025 7 min read
Customer Retention Strategy: Preventing Churn Before It Happens

Customer Retention Strategy: Preventing Churn Before It Happens

Reactive churn prevention fails. Here's how to build proactive retention strategies that catch at-risk customers early.

November 22, 2025 7 min read
Expansion Campaign Framework: Marketing Upsells and Cross-Sells to Existing Customers

Expansion Campaign Framework: Marketing Upsells and Cross-Sells to Existing Customers

New customer acquisition gets all the budget. But expansion revenue from existing customers drives efficient growth. Here's how to market it.

November 22, 2025 7 min read
NPS Program Design: Running Net Promoter Score Programs That Drive Action

NPS Program Design: Running Net Promoter Score Programs That Drive Action

Most NPS programs collect scores and do nothing with them. Here's how to design NPS systems that actually improve retention and growth.

November 22, 2025 7 min read
Customer Advocacy Programs: Turning Happy Customers Into Active Promoters

Customer Advocacy Programs: Turning Happy Customers Into Active Promoters

Happy customers don't automatically become advocates. Here's how to build programs that turn satisfaction into active promotion.

November 21, 2025 7 min read
Retention Marketing Strategies: How to Prevent Churn Before It Happens

Retention Marketing Strategies: How to Prevent Churn Before It Happens

Most retention programs react to churn signals too late. Here's how to build proactive engagement campaigns, usage monitoring, and reactivation playbooks that actually work.

February 18, 2025 7 min read

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Strategy

Frameworks for positioning, competitive strategy, and market analysis that drive long-term GTM success.

Go-to-Market

Tactical playbooks for coordinating cross-functional launches, aligning teams, and executing GTM motions.

Product Launch

Launch planning, timing, and execution strategies that maximize impact and drive adoption.

Sales Enablement

Battlecards, training programs, and sales tools that turn reps into product experts.

Messaging & Positioning

Crafting value propositions and messaging that resonates with buyers and differentiates from competitors.

Pricing & Packaging

Pricing strategy, packaging decisions, and monetization models that optimize revenue.

AI Agent Optimization

Optimizing product content, documentation, and data for AI agents like ChatGPT and Claude that recommend products to buyers.

Win/Loss Analysis

Systematic approaches to understanding why deals are won or lost and feeding insights back to product and GTM.

Customer Research

Methods for gathering customer insights through interviews, surveys, and jobs-to-be-done research.

Demand Generation

Lead generation strategies, campaign planning, and lifecycle marketing that drives pipeline.

Content Marketing

Content strategy and distribution frameworks that drive qualified leads and revenue.

Product Analytics

Using product usage data to inform GTM decisions, identify expansion opportunities, and prevent churn.

Market Research

Primary and secondary research methodologies for understanding markets, competitors, and customer needs.

Partner & Channel Marketing

Co-marketing programs, partner enablement, and channel strategies that drive revenue through partnerships.

Product-Led Growth

Self-serve onboarding, free trial optimization, and PLG strategies that turn users into paying customers.

Competitive Intelligence

Building competitive monitoring systems, positioning frameworks, and battle cards that help you win against competitors.

Product Marketing Operations

Team structure, tech stack, processes, and KPIs that make product marketing teams more effective and efficient.

Developer & Technical Marketing

Marketing to developers and technical buyers through docs, community, advocacy, and technical content.

International GTM

Strategies for international expansion, localization, regional planning, and managing global product launches.

Platform & Ecosystem Marketing

App marketplaces, developer platforms, partner programs, and ecosystem growth strategies for multi-sided platforms.

Founding PMMs

For the first PMM hire: building the function from scratch, proving value, working with limited resources, and establishing credibility.

Marketers at Scale-ups/Series A

Transitioning from startup to scale-up: building teams, standardizing processes, managing complexity, and driving systematic growth.

Product Marketing Frameworks

Proven frameworks, models, and methodologies that product marketers use to structure thinking, drive decisions, and execute consistently.

RevOps & PMM Alignment

Building partnerships with revenue operations to drive attribution, forecasting, pipeline management, and cross-functional GTM execution.

Event Marketing & Field PMM

Trade shows, conferences, webinars, and field marketing strategies that drive pipeline and build brand presence in target markets.

Product Adoption & Onboarding

Strategies to drive user activation, reduce time-to-value, increase feature adoption, and build product-led growth flywheels.

Executive Communication

Communicating with C-suite and board members through executive briefs, presentations, storytelling, and strategic influence.

PMM Visibility & Impact

Dashboard frameworks, attribution models, political navigation, and career strategies that help PMMs prove value and build executive influence.

Budget Season

Q4 planning strategies, budget defense tactics, and ROI frameworks for protecting PMM resources during annual planning cycles. Navigate finance scrutiny and prove necessity.

Pragmatic Framework

Practical guides for implementing the Pragmatic Institute framework, from market and focus to programs and readiness, helping PMMs get the most value from this popular methodology.

Future of PMM

How AI, product-led growth, and evolving buyer behaviors are reshaping product marketing. What skills, tools, and career paths will define PMMs in 2030.

Industry Marketing

Go-to-market strategies tailored for specific industries and verticals. How PMM approaches differ across SaaS, fintech, construction tech, healthcare, and other specialized markets.

Buyers Guides

Practical guides for choosing PMM tools and platforms. Evaluating competitive intelligence, messaging frameworks, and launch management solutions that consolidate workflows and save time.