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9 essential sales steps you need to grow your SaaS startup

Intercom, Inc.

In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. Despite that value, however, there’s a drawback – a lack of formal sales training and sales process can seriously undermine those initial efforts. Meet your target users and get feedback.

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What is the Product Operations Career Path?

ProductPlan

A product operations manager at a smaller technology company may engage in different activities than someone at a larger firm. Meanwhile, smaller companies need more tactical support around managing data, tools, and communications. Documenting existing processes and systems within the product team for broader circulation.

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How to Build a Solid SaaS Onboarding Strategy: Step-by-Step Guide

Userpilot

Having an effective SaaS onboarding strategy is essential to user success and, by extension, customer retention. In this article, we’ll go over why you need a SaaS customer onboarding strategy, the key components of a successful customer onboarding process, and how to create your customer onboarding strategy in 10 steps.

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How Communicating More Can Help You Succeed as a Product Manager

The Product Guy

Whether it’s your plans (roadmap), feedback you’ve heard from users, product usage data (analytics), or posing questions — getting what you’re doing and thinking in front of a cross-departmental audience will provide you with input that helps you make better decisions and will help align others with the goals you’re looking to achieve.

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Sustainable Product Strategy: How to Move from Outputs to Outcomes

Amplitude

Then they solicit feedback from internal stakeholders to inform planning. Ideally, stakeholders come to the table with informed and researched perspectives as to how they would force rank feature priorities and what the features could achieve once delivered. Align on opportunities before diving into solutions.

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Scaling and Positioning Sprout Social’s Product Marketing Team

Pragmatic Marketing

Sprout Social , which develops social media management, advocacy and analytics software for businesses, has mushroomed to 500 employees in its short, nine-year history. There is so much more to the commercialization of product strategy, which is how I would define product marketing in a nutshell.

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Scaling and Positioning Sprout Social’s Product Marketing Team

Pragmatic Marketing

Sprout Social , which develops social media management, advocacy and analytics software for businesses, has mushroomed to 500 employees in its short, nine-year history. There is so much more to the commercialization of product strategy, which is how I would define product marketing in a nutshell.