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How to Survive the Hardest Part of Product Management by Janna Bastow

Mind the Product

Janna had a sales job in college and recounts how intense the training was – with role-playing exercises, secret shoppers, and scripts – and how focused it was on dealing with people. But the training was intense! Frankly, selling pet food to adoring pet owners isn’t exactly a hard sell. Janna Bastow.

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The Editor’s Notebook: Privacy and Data Security, Retraining Sales Teams

Pragmatic Marketing

In fact, the survey found that 68% of companies find red-team exercises more effective than blue-team testing, and more companies are practicing red over blue. “It’s abundantly clear that regular and relevant red/blue team testing helps companies develop their security capabilities.”

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The Editor’s Notebook: Privacy and Data Security, Retraining Sales Teams

Pragmatic Marketing

In fact, the survey found that 68% of companies find red-team exercises more effective than blue-team testing, and more companies are practicing red over blue. “It’s abundantly clear that regular and relevant red/blue team testing helps companies develop their security capabilities.”

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The 3 core skills to master real-time selling

Intercom, Inc.

You execute demand generation programs to drive visitors to your website, qualify them, nurture them into sales opportunities and convert them into paying customers. The big difference is with the live chat funnel, you do this in real-time, which requires sales teams to exercise a few new muscles.

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Managing Manufactured Products: Growth and Decline

Mind the Product

Increased sales training, promotion, and product improvements are some of the actions to be considered. If your business plan is for sales of new product A to replace legacy product B, the S&OP forecast will give you early indication if that is indeed happening. Cannibalization effects, intended or unintended.

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Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis on telling stories that sell

Intercom, Inc.

I realized I get way more value out of helping other sales people figure out how to tap into their full potential. Then I went to go work for Google, running sales productivity, which was really sales training development. I went to Salesforce after that, and that’s where we coined the term “sales productivity.”

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Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis on telling stories that sell

Intercom, Inc.

I realized I get way more value out of helping other sales people figure out how to tap into their full potential. Then I went to go work for Google, running sales productivity, which was really sales training development. I went to Salesforce after that, and that’s where we coined the term “sales productivity.”