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How to Give Your Product Managers Negative Feedback (Part 1)

The Product Coalition

The answer is, of course, yes?—?most Even people with a developed growth mindset?—?ones No one likes to see their gaps pointed to, and for people who don’t have a developed growth mindset, it’s twice as hard. Or how working on outbound product management would make them better inbound product managers.

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From frontline manager to SVP of Sales: How to stand out in your sales career

Intercom, Inc.

Sales managers looking to stand out among their peers would do well to focus on four things: prioritizing work that will move the needle, making sure the right people are on their team, thinking about initiatives that will improve the business (not just themselves and their reps), and developing a solid decision-making framework.

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Sales Hacker?s Max Altschuler on selling more with less

Intercom, Inc.

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. That means your focus should be on building the right customer profile and developing precise messaging to reach them. Short on time?

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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.) Some frequent bad outcomes from this confusion: We never finish our MVP. Here’s why…. What To Do?

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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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A Product Manager’s Approach to Building Integrations for SaaS Software

Mind the Product

While working on a knowledge management solution aimed at custom support and sales teams, we integrated with several customer support desks and CRM. Integrations that can delight several current customers or help you to close deals with several prospects of course get prioritized. Maintain Good Data Quality for Outbound Integrations.

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How support leaders measure (and improve) the quality of their customer support

Intercom, Inc.

That’s why we partnered with Klaus , the conversation review and QA platform for support teams, to get a deeper understanding of what “quality support” actually looks like. Together, we surveyed hundreds of CX professionals, team leads, managers, and executives to get a deeper understanding of how they measure and improve support quality.