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How to Survive the Hardest Part of Product Management by Janna Bastow

Mind the Product

Janna had a sales job in college and recounts how intense the training was – with role-playing exercises, secret shoppers, and scripts – and how focused it was on dealing with people. But the training was intense! How many acronyms and feature names are there that require you or a scrum master to translate?

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Scaling and Positioning Sprout Social’s Product Marketing Team

Pragmatic Marketing

Sales Enablement has helped us scale our sales training efforts by taking on much of the tactical execution and providing great insight into the varied needs of each sales team — something that was incredibly time intensive for us prior to them coming onboard.

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Scaling and Positioning Sprout Social’s Product Marketing Team

Pragmatic Marketing

Sales Enablement has helped us scale our sales training efforts by taking on much of the tactical execution and providing great insight into the varied needs of each sales team — something that was incredibly time intensive for us prior to them coming onboard.

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Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis on telling stories that sell

Intercom, Inc.

Doug Landis often sees an unsuccessful sales pitch stumble straight out of the gate. The problem, Doug says, is salespeople tend to focus too much on their company and the names on their client roster, rather than connecting with their audience. I went to Salesforce after that, and that’s where we coined the term “sales productivity.”

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Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis on telling stories that sell

Intercom, Inc.

Doug Landis often sees an unsuccessful sales pitch stumble straight out of the gate. The problem, Doug says, is salespeople tend to focus too much on their company and the names on their client roster, rather than connecting with their audience. I went to Salesforce after that, and that’s where we coined the term “sales productivity.”