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Motivating Development Teams

Mironov Consulting

As noted in my last post , Sales and Marketing often wonder whether Engineering is sufficiently motivated and engaged. But the symptoms aren’t so obvious to the outbound (and extroverted) part of the company. Some Engineering teams are unmotivated, though. Dev teams need more than task lists and reminders about productivity.

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Spendesk’s Nicolas Marchais on evolving with your market

Intercom, Inc.

Creating a new product category also creates a plethora of challenges – from spotting the right market niche to convincing customers that yours is a service they need. Nico joined me on Inside Intercom this week, where we discussed everything from the three stages of company growth to how growing companies can address new markets.

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From Product Management Back to Strategy

The Product Coalition

In my first official product role, which I got to after managing large dev teams and a business-related role, I managed alone a product with a development team of ~40 people. One of the first things I did, for example, was to work with the salespeople on how to sell the product.

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I’ve abandoned “MVP”

Mironov Consulting

Almost without fail, I find that the “maker” side of software companies (developers, designers, product folks, DevOps, tech writers…) and the “go-to-market” side of software companies (sales, marketing, support, customer success.) The go-to-market organizations really want something to market and sell.

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BrowserStack’s Mark Rudden on hypergrowth in a global pandemic

Intercom, Inc.

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. Building a great sales team: How Intercom fosters and maintains its sales culture. Onboarding, but make it remote.

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9 essential sales steps you need to grow your SaaS startup

Intercom, Inc.

Define your marketing personas. To do this it is necessary to create marketing personas that represent your ideal prospect or match your ideal customer profile. It is important that these friendly connections represent the target persona market you have outlined, as otherwise, the feedback loop is likely to be weak.

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Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions

Mironov Consulting

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. Especially in enterprise/B2B, sales teams may have only a handful of major active accounts, each carrying a lot of revenue.

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