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The Editor’s Notebook: Privacy and Data Security, Retraining Sales Teams

Pragmatic Marketing

5 Trends for Retraining Sales Teams to Hit Goals It’s no surprise that salespeople who are well trained and equipped to sell are the ones who outperform their peers. What’s odd, though, is that only 23% of companies consider their current sales training programs to be effective.

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How to Survive the Hardest Part of Product Management by Janna Bastow

Mind the Product

Janna had a sales job in college and recounts how intense the training was – with role-playing exercises, secret shoppers, and scripts – and how focused it was on dealing with people. But the training was intense! “I’ve spotted a trend: a bad roadmap is a symptom of underlying issues in the company.

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What is the Product Operations Career Path?

ProductPlan

For example, serving as the business owner of an agile software tool such as JIRA, used by product management and other product development stakeholders. Summarizing trends and themes from feature requests, support tickets, and churn reasons. In some cases, the job has a narrow focus.

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The Editor’s Notebook: Privacy and Data Security, Retraining Sales Teams

Pragmatic Marketing

5 Trends for Retraining Sales Teams to Hit Goals It’s no surprise that salespeople who are well trained and equipped to sell are the ones who outperform their peers. What’s odd, though, is that only 23% of companies consider their current sales training programs to be effective.

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How to build, manage and scale a sales team – 12 strategies from the experts

Intercom, Inc.

I’m often asked the question of “Why sales?” The “Why sales?” question becomes even more pressing given the trend toward “bottom-up” product adoption – i.e., offering a given product for free or without a formal top-down sales motion, as is common with SaaS. Use the sales acceleration formula to build your sales team.

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The Great Silence

The Product Coalition

On a personal level, I have tried all kinds of techniques to buck this trend with members of my own teams with mediocre results and had pretty open discussions with PM’s about it, trying to understand the blockages that prevent it from becoming an easy, obtainable and regular practice.