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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 make CX less ‘squishy’ and more data-driven

Gainsight

This mindset is as relevant to CX and CS managers as it is to sales reps because CX is a major growth engin e for your business. Because it’s a part of your go-to-market organization, every CX employee will benefit from learning the fundamental skill sets and techniques in which your salespeople are trained.

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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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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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What is the Product Operations Career Path?

ProductPlan

Managing projects related to feature development and maintenance that sit within the product, engineering, and design teams. Work with Product Management and Engineering to define, scope, and create new features to improve the classification & categorization engine. Monitor system performance and calculate success metrics.

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Scaling and Positioning Sprout Social’s Product Marketing Team

Pragmatic Marketing

Even more impressive, we've scaled a 50-person Sales team that was almost entirely inbound when I started to a proper inbound/outbound Sales Org with well over 300 people, comprised of Acquisition, Customer Success, Growth and Onboarding. "In

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Scaling and Positioning Sprout Social’s Product Marketing Team

Pragmatic Marketing

Even more impressive, we've scaled a 50-person Sales team that was almost entirely inbound when I started to a proper inbound/outbound Sales Org with well over 300 people, comprised of Acquisition, Customer Success, Growth and Onboarding. "In