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Why Copywriting & Storytelling Are Key To Product Management (With Drift's Dave Gerhardt)
29 minutes Posted Jan 3, 2023 at 3:33 pm.
DG’s one week as a product manager
The most underrated skill at a company: internal marketing
Read it out loud, say what you mean
Simplify
Would you say that out loud?
Use their words
Let your customers write the copy
The swipe file
Storytelling
Five parts of a story
The best books on copywriting
The best books on storytelling
DG’s storytelling secret: The Steve Jobs’ keynote
The hardest part of storytelling in product
Two ways to sell a shovel
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It's a special crossover episode of Build! And the first episode in our brand new dedicated feed. Today's guest? Dave Gerhardt, Drift's VP of Marketing. Dave discusses his one week spent as a product manager at Drift plus, the real meat of this episode – how to write good copy and tell a story with your product. Copywriting and storytelling are key to product management. If you can't tell the story and motivate your team, they won't know where to go next. On this episode of Build, how to build that excitement and get everyone on the same page.
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