In this post, I knew I wanted to talk about preparing content for a product marketing effort. One in which the content had to be ready when someone pulled the trigger.
But I suspected that Google Gemini wouldn’t permit generation of an appropriate “trigger” picture because of Google’s guardrails.
So I moved in a different direction.
Pulling the trigger
But what’s the trigger?
The trigger to move forward—with a product launch, an event, an unsolicited proposal, hatever.
But if you’re a product marketer, and it’s your product, why can’t you pull the trigger?
Storytelling time.
The date is the date, but what is the date?
I was brought into a particular project, where everyone was readying go-to-market content for an executive meeting on a particular date.
Both internal and external content.
Training, FAQs, presentations, videos, blog posts, press releases, email campaigns, landing pages, call scripts, the whole bit.
As it turned out, I authored a bunch of the content myself, and helped on most of the rest.
All of us working toward that executive meeting date.
Finally, the date arrived, and all the content was presented to the executive team, mostly ready to go.
The response?
“Not yet.”
Because at the executive level, the fate of one particular product is relatively minor, compared to the overall scope of the business.
Now what?
So was the effort wasted?
- If the product were eventually launched, then obviously not. The content is already queued. It’s much easier to go back in the queue and update old content than it is to wait until you get the go-ahead and THEN create brand new content. (In three days.)
- And if the product were never launched…it still may not be a wasted effort. The company will launch new products (unless the company is Rite Aid), and the (sorry for the next two words) lessons learned from the old product can apply to the new one.
Provided you have a repeatable system for going to market (part of your strategy and process documents, or perhaps something less formal if your founder despises process) that you can dust off in the future.
But if you need content for now, or even for later, Bredemarket can create content for tech marketers.
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