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The Activities of a Strategic Product Manager

ProductPlan

Try these inbound/outbound efforts exercise by dividing your PM activities into either an “inbound effort” or “outbound effort” bucket. Common inbound effort activities include: Setting the vision. Common outbound effort activities include: Competitive differentiation. Market research.

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All I know is coding. Can I become a Product Manager?

B2B Product Management

As you can see in the picture, these categories are inbound and outbound Product Management. This division between inbound and outbound PM duties is much more pronounced at larger companies. If you are an inbound PM, you might want to take steps to get into an outbound PM role.

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How to Sell Software to the Masses: Use Sales

Business of Software Conference

Inbound Calls When new customers sign up, your system automatically sends them a number of emails – a generic welcome, a receipt, and maybe one or two others. This is a fantastic time to express your gratitude for their business and ask a few quick market research questions. This is no longer special; it’s the default.

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Scaling and Positioning Sprout Social’s Product Marketing Team

Pragmatic Marketing

Even more impressive, we've scaled a 50-person Sales team that was almost entirely inbound when I started to a proper inbound/outbound Sales Org with well over 300 people, comprised of Acquisition, Customer Success, Growth and Onboarding. "In

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Scaling and Positioning Sprout Social’s Product Marketing Team

Pragmatic Marketing

Even more impressive, we've scaled a 50-person Sales team that was almost entirely inbound when I started to a proper inbound/outbound Sales Org with well over 300 people, comprised of Acquisition, Customer Success, Growth and Onboarding. "In

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Strategic Product Management: The Role of a Strategic Product Manager

Userpilot

Product managers conduct primary and secondary market and customer research to find the target market and identify opportunities that existing products don’t satisfy. Market research, differentiation, and positioning are necessary to prepare for the product launch. Conduct market research.

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9 essential sales steps you need to grow your SaaS startup

Intercom, Inc.

Again the goal here is to treat this stage of the process as primary market research. Identify a market specific methodology. For many B2B SaaS companies, inbound marketing represents a cornerstone of all marketing activity. How do they describe the category? What features are most appealing?