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Saying Goodbye

The Product Bistro

It is long, so get a fresh cuppa… Without further ado, here is the message I sent: Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 8:05 AM. I will be joining Open Text, a leader in Enterprise Content Management as the Senior Product Line Manager for the RightFax product line. Sales training in 2004 in Europe. Where am I?

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

Pragmatic Marketing

What’s odd, though, is that only 23% of companies consider their current sales training programs to be effective. Bob Kelly, chairman of the SMA, said the association’s research identified five specific areas of focus correlated with high levels of improved training effectiveness and higher sales performance.

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

Pragmatic Marketing

What’s odd, though, is that only 23% of companies consider their current sales training programs to be effective. Bob Kelly, chairman of the SMA, said the association’s research identified five specific areas of focus correlated with high levels of improved training effectiveness and higher sales performance.

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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  This is a must-close.”

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The Great Silence

The Product Coalition

This is especially true in enterprise software and it’s this idea that talking with sales teams is broadly fruitful. Reason one: New deals don’t keep customers happy Most sales compensation plans are focused on new deals only , not on keeping existing customers happy. For two specific reasons. One meeting births another.

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Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis on telling stories that sell

Intercom, Inc.

Doug: Here’s a little background on Emergence: we are hyper-focused on B2B enterprise SAAS companies. 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.