Video: How Marketo became a "solution" w/ Phil Fernandez

Pay close attention as Phil Fernandez of Marketo describes reinventing the company. What he's really talking about here is going from a product to a solution.

Marketo went from a tool that "helped people get more leads for their sales team" to a solution for a much broader use case.

The key quote: “We realized, hey, this is not a lead management product. This is the future of marketing. And so we went very big, and it’s what has produced a leadership spot on Gartner Group and other things. If we hadn’t done that, we would’ve defined ourselves too small, and I think that was the seminal third act, if you will, for our company."

After this clip, it should be clear why focusing on solutions is smarter.

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