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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 make CX less ‘squishy’ and more data-driven

Gainsight

Many of my views toward CX were shaped during my “previous life” in sales, which has long relied on a standardized set of metrics — bookings targets, conversion rates and other productivity numbers — by which reps earn the respect and trust of CFOs and CROs. This needs to change.

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The Great Silence

The Product Coalition

Frameworks can’t save you I believe one technique we’ve evolved to escape this tyranny of distractions and a lack of autonomy was to add credibility to the product management role through self-improvement, with a big focus on strategy and management concepts. The better and more logical the framework sounds, the more people will trust you.