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Our product and marketing don't talk

By
Mukund Kabra

When product and marketing do not talk, launches miss their audience and campaigns promise what the product does not deliver. Share one customer goal, one calendar and one set of numbers, and plan launches together.

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Measurement
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Published on:
October 24, 2026
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Our product and marketing don't talk

Our product and marketing don't talk

Problem

Marketing hears about new features on launch day.

Campaigns promise things the product does not do, and good features ship without anyone telling customers. Each team blames the other when the numbers disappoint.

Customers feel the gap first.

Insight

The gap is usually structural, not personal.

Product and marketing often have different goals, different tools and different meetings, so they rarely see the same information at the same time. Good intentions do not survive that.

Shared goals and a shared rhythm close most of the gap.

How we approach it

We give product and marketing one plan to work from.

  1. We set shared customer goals and the numbers both teams are measured on.
  2. We create one launch calendar and a simple process for planning each release together.
  3. We run a joint review of results after every major launch.

Launches land with the right message, and campaigns sell what the product really does.

Tags:  
Product Marketing Alignment; cross-functional Collaboration; Growth Alignment; Data Unification; Shared Kpis; Marketing Operations
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