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Stop Selling Your Product, Start Selling Your Point of View | April Dunford | BoS USA Online 2020

Business of Software Conference

So I use it as a forcing function to clarify my thinking around a thing that I’ve been doing both when I was a VP marketing, working inside companies, but also as a, as a consultant, a thing that I’ve been doing with my clients a lot. What they’re doing is they’re teaching for differentiation.

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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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The Great Silence

The Product Coalition

From this education, the influence of elaborate management consulting style frameworks appeared, which frankly, stakeholders care very little about. Better sales training also won’t stop individual salespeople who are new and just trying to learn the ropes, or simply have a different idea of who the ideal customer is.