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10 Reasons Your Product is Hurting Your Sales Team

The Product Coalition

I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” I’ve struggled to find many examples detailing how to bond product and sales teams ( Antonia Bozhkova offers a good perspective ). Your teams will realign and strengthen their partnership as they see the product through each other’s eyes.

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How Can Product Managers Recenter Goals for the Rest of the Year?

ProductPlan

Let’s begin this process by reflecting and reviewing. User behaviors changed a lot since January, so many of the key metrics companies and product teams care about have also been impacted. Regular roadmap reviews. They might have some powerful and valuable insights to share with the product team. Were KPIs met?

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How to drive retention with the right growth stack

Mixpanel

If your product and marketing teams are the “brains” designing your experience, your technology stack is undoubtedly the “brawn” making it possible. . But we know it’s not simply product or marketing know-how that gets the job done—it takes a strategically built stack and free-flowing data. Strength in numbers. Analyze this.

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Customer Experience author Elizabeth Dixon on the CX that makes an impact

Intercom, Inc.

From the CEO and the management team to the intern fresh out of college, every employee or business owner has unique qualities that position them to bring excellent customer experiences to life. No, “I get to be a part of this team, and we get to make an impact on people.” While in college, I started my first business.

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To manage a Product Roadmap, you must be a Diplomat, Strategist and Defender

Bain Public

By leaning on empathy, we can build an open-minded work culture that encourages collaboration, opinions, and feedback, allowing us to gain a variety of perspectives from the people on our teams and beyond. Everyone’s opinion matters, and when they trust that we’re listening, a culture of respect develops. How big is our technical debt?

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Intercom on Product: Accelerating your strategy after COVID-19

Intercom, Inc.

That’s the advice of the Sequoia team in their last memo, “ COVID Accelerated the Future, Now Seize It ,” and for the last couple of months, that’s certainly been on the top of our minds here at Intercom. We’ve been focused mostly on looking at how we can grow our team and what might new teams do and what might new people do.

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Are you Solving Customer Problems or Just Building Features?

ProductPlan

Added functionality, new capabilities, a more robust feature set…these are the talking points product marketers salivate over and executives search for on product roadmaps. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Why do product teams become feature factories? But are you solving for actual customer problems?