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Trailblazing Women in Product Management: Pinar Alpay, Chief Product & Marketing Officer at Signicat

280 Group

My first job was as a strategy consultant at Bain & Company. After a while, as many consultants do, I wanted to get my hands dirty “on the other side”, so I joined Barclaycard International as Head of Strategy and Planning. It requires you to set a vision and bring people with you. Yes, the data is so essential.

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Top Customer Success Trends To Watch For In 2020

Gainsight

This is a partial transcript of Nick and Gainsight’s vision of the future of customer success. Sometimes CSPs [Customer Success Professionals] didn’t have this cause they hadn’t gone through sales training, they didn’t understand all the basics that maybe a salesperson might. Nick Mehta.

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

Business of Software Conference

Startups often struggle to communicate the value of their products, particularly in sales meetings. From pitches that drown customers in a word-soup of features, to high-concept vision pitches that leave customers confused and sceptical – many companies struggle to connect authentically with customers in a way that generates deals.

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The Seven-Part Guide to Portfolio Product Management & Marketing

Product Management University

Customer-Facing Vision & Strategy. If you have 20 products, that equates to 20 product visions and 20 product strategies. Create one customer-facing vision for the portfolio, something that’s strategic to every customer, and then create a tactical business goal for each product that supports the portfolio vision.

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Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis on telling stories that sell

Intercom, Inc.

His time at the latter culminated in the title of Chief Storyteller, where he rewrote the script for how Box sales team talked to and about their customers. I think of it as go-to-market consulting. I realized I get way more value out of helping other sales people figure out how to tap into their full potential. It was so fun.

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Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis on telling stories that sell

Intercom, Inc.

His time a the latter culminated in the title of Chief Storyteller, where he rewrote the script for how Box sales team talked to and about their customers. I think of it as go-to-market consulting. I realized I get way more value out of helping other sales people figure out how to tap into their full potential. It was so fun.