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

Product Innovation Educators

Your title is irrelevant—if you’re building products and thinking about how to engineer change, you’re applying product thinking. [9:05] Logistics: How does the solution get to customers (support, sales, training customers, professional services)? I’ve realized that product is a way of thinking.

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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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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. They relied on a great product, with a passionate userbase that helped kickstart an organic growth engine which sold the product for them. The first stage is building an organic growth engine.

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Managing Manufactured Products: Growth and Decline

Mind the Product

In this final post in my series on managing manufactured products I examine the specific touch points that exist between the operations, engineering, and finance functions when managing the lifecycle of manufactured products. Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP). Value Analysis and Value Engineering (VAVE).

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Mismatched Expectations: Product Information and Sales Teams

Mironov Consulting

Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and the go-to-market side (sales, marketing, customer success) of tech firms, especially at B2B/enterprise software companies.  That  Plus frequent updates on everything for the C-suite.

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Do It For the Portfolio Instead of Every Product: Five B2B Product Management Best Practices

Product Management University

Here are five B2B product management best practices that’ll give product management teams the coveted “strategic” moniker among executives, marketing, sales, engineering and customer success teams. Sales Training. When it comes to sales training, products play a supporting role, not a leading role.

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Sustainable Product Strategy: How to Move from Outputs to Outcomes

Amplitude

Output-based product roadmapping frequently looks like jostling and negotiating to sequence a given set of features over time and across several swimlanes, each representing an engineering team. You can create sales training and prepare go-to-market plans for upcoming feature launches months in advance.