Evangelize Your Value Like Hattie the PMM

Feeling overlooked as a Product Marketing Manager? Like your strategic insights disappear into the corporate void whilst everyone else gets the credit? Here's the uncomfortable truth: if you're not evangelizing your value, someone else is defining it for you.

PMMs possess a powerful blend of strategy, insight, and impact, yet we're often the best-kept secret in our own organizations. Today, I'm sharing insights from my conversation with Hattie, PMM founder of productmarketers.com, on how to make your contributions impossible to ignore.

Meet Hattie the PMM

Here's why Hattie's the perfect person to tackle this challenge: she's lived every bit of it. She founded product marketers.com, now one of the fastest-growing hubs for PMM jobs, insights, and community. By her twenties, she'd already built and successfully exited her own company, then stepped into the CMO role at Tempo Software—a major player in the Atlassian ecosystem.

As the sole PMM owning their SaaS division, she drove substantial ARR growth that spoke louder than any job title could. With credentials like that, Hattie's become the voice PMMs turn to when they're ready to be seen for their authentic expertise—not just as messengers delivering someone else's vision.

PMMs spend their careers telling other people's stories. Hattie shows you how to become the story by owning your expertise and sharing it without apology.

Know Your Worth (Then Make Sure Everyone Else Does)

Product marketing isn't just tactical execution—it's strategic orchestration. Hattie's journey from underestimated newcomer to leading PMM voice proves one thing: great work doesn't speak for itself. People do. Your role extends far beyond campaign launches and messaging—you're aligning organizational strategy with market reality. Time to own that narrative.

Your Strategic Playbook

Here's how to make your value undeniable:

1. Map Your Internal Power Players Stop hoping the right people notice your work. Identify who actually influences your career progression. Who makes decisions about your projects? Who controls budget allocation? These are your internal customers, and they need to understand exactly what you deliver.

2. Cultivate Your Champions Find advocates who speak for you when you're not in the room. This isn't about office politics—it's about ensuring the right people understand your contributions. Your champions become your amplifiers, translating your impact into language leadership understands.

3. Create Your Visibility System Develop a consistent approach to showcasing wins, insights, and strategic contributions. Regular updates that connect your work to business outcomes. The goal isn't self-promotion—it's strategic communication that keeps your value front and center.

Authenticity as Your Competitive Edge

The biggest shift in any PMM's journey is embracing your authentic strengths. Whether it's empathy, strategic thinking, or communication prowess—lean into what makes you uniquely valuable. Authenticity eliminates the exhaustion of pretending to be someone else and lets your natural talents shine.

Make Yourself Irreplaceable

Recognition isn't about working harder or shouting louder. It's about strategic positioning and consistent communication. When you align your contributions with organizational goals and make your impact visible, you transform from overlooked team member to strategic asset.

Messaging Critique: Guideflow

For this segment of the show, Hattie chose Guideflow, a company doing AI-based interactive demos. Their website's playful animations were delightful, but underneath the charm lay a classic PMM problem: they were underselling themselves spectacularly.

Guideflow's challenge mirrors our own as PMMs: they need to stop apologizing for their expertise and start owning their unique value proposition. Instead of scattered messaging that whispers "we do lots of things," they need bold, coherent storytelling that declares "here's exactly why you can't afford to ignore us."

The lesson? Whether you're a SaaS company or a PMM fighting for recognition, diluted messaging gets you diluted results. Define your unique value, then showcase it without apology.

Consider joining initiatives like Hattie's PMM challenge for practical strategies and community support. Because the best PMMs don't just execute campaigns—they shape how organizations understand and value product marketing itself.

Your expertise deserves recognition. Time to make sure it gets it.

LINKS:

The Profitable PMM Challenge

Guideflow (messaging critique): https://www.guideflow.com/ 

Connect with Hattie

Websites: https://www.hattiethepmm.com/  |. https://www.productmarketers.com/ 


LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hattiethepmm

Connect with Elle:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elle3izabeth/

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