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Mismatched Expectations: Product Information and Sales Teams

Mironov Consulting

 From their side, it’s obvious that every employee should be as dedicated to closing their few large deals as the sales team is.     “ BNP Paribas is the largest bank in France.  We  So a product manager might have 5% of their time in total for deal-specific sales support.

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The Seven-Part Guide to Portfolio Product Management & Marketing

Product Management University

Sales Training on Customers vs. Products. The goal is to make sure sales dialogues lead with a strong vision and a differentiating value story that’s supported by all products. When it comes to sales training, products play a supporting role, not a leading role. The market owner role is pure and simple.

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The Great Silence

The Product Coalition

You can bank on your competitors messing this up, because everyone seems to be. Reason one: New deals don’t keep customers happy Most sales compensation plans are focused on new deals only , not on keeping existing customers happy. Time management may be the biggest competitive advantage out there. So why does this matter you ask?

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Rules & Tools For Scaling Software Sales | Stephen Allott, Seedcamp| BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

And I know a lot of fintech that are sort of beached on the year long procurement cycles in big banks. Things like Qualifying the lead properly at the beginning, in fact sales qualification is one of the favorite topic of sales professions and I should add I’m not a sales professional.