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Mismatched Expectations: Product Information and Sales Teams

Mironov Consulting

Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and the go-to-market side (sales, marketing, customer success) of tech firms, especially at B2B/enterprise software companies.  That  (See the chocolate cake problem.)

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How to Build a Solid SaaS Onboarding Strategy: Step-by-Step Guide

Userpilot

The product, sales, marketing, and CS teams all play a role in the onboarding concerto. Hosts live product demos, directly interacts with new users during the early customer onboarding stages, and reconnects when it’s time for the user to convert or upgrade their subscription (while gathering data on sales-qualified leads).

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Product Management System Basics

ProductPlan

What mechanism will we use to review and weigh priorities on what to build? Researching the market and your user persona’s needs for potential product ideas. Building your product’s strategic schedule, including timelines for development milestones, marketing campaigns, sales training, etc. Market surveys.

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Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis on telling stories that sell

Intercom, Inc.

I help source and complete deals, and I perform due diligence on deals. I think of it as go-to-market consulting. We’re not into B2C, we’re not into IoT, we’re not in health tech; we’re hyper-focused, and that’s also what allowed me to step into this role after being an operator for the last 20 years.

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Top 10 Instructional Design Software For Creating Customer Training Programs

Userpilot

The top ten instructional design tools on the market. TLDR; Instructional design software helps you create custom eLearning courses and training material. Instructional design software is helpful for SaaS teams since you don’t need technical knowledge to build learning material that helps increase product adoption.

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Intercom on Product: Accelerating your strategy after COVID-19

Intercom, Inc.

There have been two seminal memos that have, in a sense, rocked the tech industry. If you’ve got a good setup, then more teams equal more product, and more product equals more marketing and more sales and all sorts of stuff like that. I’m joined, as always, by Mr. Paul Adams. Hello Paul. Paul Adams: Hi, Des.

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Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis on telling stories that sell

Intercom, Inc.

I help source and complete deals, and I perform due diligence on deals. I think of it as go-to-market consulting. We’re not into B2C, we’re not into IoT, we’re not in health tech; we’re hyper-focused, and that’s also what allowed me to step into this role after being an operator for the last 20 years.