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11 Books To Read As A Product Manager

Bain Public

Here are our top 11 best books to read as a product manager: The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo This handbook is about the perfect book for those new to the job and want to learn how to become the manager you’ve always wanted. What better way to do so than by reading! Goldstein, Steve J.

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5 Business ‘Rules’ Worth Breaking

Business of Software Conference

Here’s the analogy: None of those things are going to make or break the startup either’, he explains. You set the rules and write the handbook. But there’s so much guidance out there that it can be hard to weed through all the noise and determine what’s going to be the best plan of action for your startup. This is liberating.

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2018 on Inside Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

Intercom, the product, continued to develop at a fast pace with hundreds of new features big and small – from an entirely reimagined Messenger to a thriving Intercom App Store to next generation chatbots, Custom Bots and Answer Bot. Lessons learned from scaling a team. It has been a year of extraordinary growth at Intercom.

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The 13 Proven Customer Retention Strategies For SaaS Companies [A Guide]

Userpilot

But how the marketing team decides to tell your story will determine who it connects with. vs. A Product Onboarding Tool for Startups. vs. The Product Growth Tool for Product Teams. If you’re a mid market company with a product team you’d probably go for ‘the Product Growth Tool for Product Teams’.

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Close.com’s Steli Efti on balancing competition and collaboration in sales

Intercom, Inc.

This is the recipe for a mediocre sales team. Like a sports franchise, a top team should be both collaborative and competitive. It’s a timely conversation for us, coming hot on the heels of the release of our book Intercom on Sales last month and Steli’s own book The 2020 Startup Sales Playbook this week. to Close.com.

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Interactive Walkthroughs in 2021: The Ultimate Guide for SaaS

Userpilot

Given how much time and money you’re spending developing new product features, it would be a great shame to have nobody want to use them. This is more effective than an employee handbook since humans tend to retain more information when they actively participate in something, as opposed to passive reading. Speed is of the essence here.

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8 steps to craft a winning sales strategy, according to industry leaders

Intercom, Inc.

Developing a sales strategy is one of the core activities every business will have to undertake. When done correctly, your sales strategy will help your sales team execute with focus – SMB or enterprise, inbound or outbound, hunting or farming. Get your free copy of The Sales Handbook. Want more advice like this?

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