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Get your team up and over the line with data-driven sales coaching

Intercom, Inc.

Sales has an unavoidable reality: sometimes, your team won’t hit their numbers. If your team isn’t reaching their goals, what are you doing as a leader to help them get up and over the line? This coaching helps them drive their team and their company to greater productivity and higher sales.

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9 essential sales steps you need to grow your SaaS startup

Intercom, Inc.

Despite that value, however, there’s a drawback – a lack of formal sales training and sales process can seriously undermine those initial efforts. In this post, I outline how SaaS founders should modify their approach and implement a simple sales methodology to increase their odds of success. .

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367: Radical product thinking for product managers – with Radhika Dutt

Product Innovation Educators

Other diseases are pivot-itis and obsessive sales disorder. I learned from these product diseases and developed an intuition after really hard lessons. A vision with this level of detail gives teams enough direction to make decisions. Why does that world need changing? When will we know we’ve accomplished our mission?

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The Shortest Product Manager Job Ever!

The Accidental Product Manager

Product managers are generally considered to be valuable members of the product team who work on the product development definition and we can have a direct impact on the bottom line of the product project that we are involved in. Was I a bad person? I actually worked for this company for a total of three weeks.

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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! “I’ve spotted a trend: a bad roadmap is a symptom of underlying issues in the company.

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Mismatched Expectations: Product Information and Sales Teams

Mironov Consulting

” Product: “We’re endlessly creating and updating demos, decks, product bulletins, release dates/roadmaps, FAQs, technical docs, checklists, cheat sheets -- but Sales hardly uses any of them, and still expresses deep frustration with us.  Sales  There’s something more systematic here.

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How to build a billion dollar sales team like Stripe

Intercom, Inc.

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. But even for companies with this early viral growth, there comes a point in time when this organic growth needs to be supplemented with formal sales. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team.