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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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Saying Goodbye

The Product Bistro

I will be joining Open Text, a leader in Enterprise Content Management as the Senior Product Line Manager for the RightFax product line. Memories of note, and there are many: My first day, grabbing a flight to Singapore to participate in the APAC sales training. Sales training in 2004 in Europe.

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How Communicating More Can Help You Succeed as a Product Manager

The Product Guy

Guest Post by: Lonnie Rosenbaum (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Marc Abraham]. Sharing product information within your company is one of the most valuable things you can do as a product manager. Create slides to walk the audience through: What’s been happening with the product (e.g.,

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What is the Product Operations Career Path?

ProductPlan

Product operations is an increasingly important part of the product ecosystem. This supporting function enables the success of the product management team. As product operations staffing matures, so has the range of titles, responsibilities, and career pathways in this discipline.

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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. What can be cut first?

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Rules & Tools For Scaling Software Sales | Stephen Allott, Seedcamp| BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

Things like Qualifying the lead properly at the beginning, in fact sales qualification is one of the favorite topic of sales professions and I should add I’m not a sales professional. I’ve never worked in sales. And never had any sales training. Getting the clicks in.

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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.