I once had a manager tell me to “just copy what competitors are doing but make it sound smarter.” Easily the worst product marketing advice I’ve ever gotten. What’s the worst PMM advice you’ve ever heard?

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Run everything through chat gpt! They were very new, and the answer to every question was ask chatgpt, and so any advice given was usually something to do with that. On the other hand, they might have been an excellent marketing idea from OpenAI. Plant in people that only give advice to use it 😂

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Sounds like me to my partner everyday 😂

Its not the worst advice. A good product manager would have already proposed and drafted a range of materials and suggestions before the manager said something like this. Anticipate, propose, get ahead of the curve. The worst PMM advice I heard was silence, no suggestions at all.

If silence was the worst PMM advice you’ve received, what was the second worst?

"Make sure you list all the features." If you set out to dazzle people with every last feature of a product, you'll just confuse most people and they'll give up on making a decision. Like good old Thoreau said, "Simplify, simplify."

Agree with not overdoing it - less is definitely more sometimes

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