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How Communicating More Can Help You Succeed as a Product Manager

The Product Guy

Invite people not only from Product & Tech, but also Support, Sales, Training, and any other relevant group. Lonnie blogs about product and entrepreneurship at [link]. Hold a recurring meeting once per month that gets you in front of a cross-departmental audience. recap the last release, usage data). the next release).

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9 essential sales steps you need to grow your SaaS startup

Intercom, Inc.

Despite that value, however, there’s a drawback – a lack of formal sales training and sales process can seriously undermine those initial efforts. In this post, I outline how SaaS founders should modify their approach and implement a simple sales methodology to increase their odds of success.

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

Mind the Product

We all come to product management from different backgrounds, but one thing that has long been true and is only just starting to change, is that when we start this job our training generally consists of Googling. It’s interesting then to contrast our approach to training with other job roles. But the training was intense!

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Do It For the Portfolio Instead of Every Product: Five B2B Product Management Best Practices

Product Management University

Sales Training. 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.

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When Writing Has Two Focuses: Invite Ideal Readers to Change and Assure Secondary Readers

Johanna Rothman

I'll wait for her next blog post.” Now that we are close, Sales, Training, Marketing all need much more detail and information about how to use Nova and when they can expect it. You're not my ideal reader. Instead, you're a secondary reader. ” You're a secondary reader. And you continue with your day.

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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.

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Mismatched Expectations: Product Information and Sales Teams

Mironov Consulting

 Plus time with Marketing (launch, messaging, product marketing content), Finance (packaging, pricing, forecasts), Support, Customer Success/Implementation, and broad Sales training and enablement.  Plus  So a product manager might have 5% of their time in total for deal-specific sales support.