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3 Proven Ways To Help Your Sales Team Beat Quota

The Secret PM Handbook

Co-opting product management into sales. My good friend Geoffrey Anderson ( @ganders2112 ) recently wrote about a situation we product managers sometimes find ourselves in. When sales are not going well, company leadership might ask product management come in to help hit the numbers. Often] not a great idea.

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Sustainable Product Strategy: How to Move from Outputs to Outcomes

Amplitude

Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. I want to make the case, informed by the writing of Marty Cagan , particularly his book Inspired and by learning from Teresa Torres , through her workshops and team coaching , that output or feature-based roadmapping is a thing of the past in product management.

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

Business of Software Conference

Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. And just for argument’s sake, let’s say the thing is, you know, I manage a sales team, or I manage training for a sales team. They’re teaching for differentiation. Upcoming Events.

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Intercom on Product: Accelerating your strategy after COVID-19

Intercom, Inc.

It may take a bit of a leap of faith to invest in a differentiation strategy that won’t immediately translate into ROI, especially in a pandemic, but you can’t sacrifice innovation and sustainability for short-term revenue. And, in those cases, when we look at an opportunity of something like managing holiday time for your support employees.

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The Great Silence

The Product Coalition

Why have Product Managers stopped speaking to customers? Very sadly, most product managers I meet today no longer talk directly to customers regularly. I ran a survey with industry insiders and at least 50% of all product managers who responded haven’t spoken to a customer recently. most invariably say zero.

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Pragmatic Live Transcripts (Prioritizing Your Product Launch)

Pragmatic Marketing

Hello and welcome to the Pragmatic Live podcast series where we tackle the biggest challenges facing today's product management, product marketing, and other market and data driven professionals with some of the best minds in the industry. So we generally know a lot about our target market and our customers going into something like this.

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Pragmatic Live Transcripts (Prioritizing Your Product Launch)

Pragmatic Marketing

Hello and welcome to the Pragmatic Live podcast series where we tackle the biggest challenges facing today's product management, product marketing, and other market and data driven professionals with some of the best minds in the industry. So we generally know a lot about our target market and our customers going into something like this.