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Celebrating Women in CS: 5 Takeaways From Our Power Up Masterclass

Gainsight

Lets dive into our top 5 takeaways on how to tie CS to revenue generation. This involves: Training and Development Pursue sales training and value-based selling courses to strengthen your teams ability to identify growth opportunities within existing accounts.

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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! Frankly, selling pet food to adoring pet owners isn’t exactly a hard sell. Janna Bastow.

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How to build a billion dollar sales team like Stripe

Intercom, Inc.

How to bring formal sales into a growing startup. The post How to build a billion dollar sales team like Stripe appeared first on Inside Intercom. Thanks to the explosive growth of products like Dropbox, Asana and Slack, the self-serve model has been all the rage for close to a decade.

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3 Proven Ways To Help Your Sales Team Beat Quota

The Secret PM Handbook

We’ll assume the challenges in selling are that Marketing isn’t finding the right prospects and Sales doesn’t know how to sell to them effectively. There are parts we might not be as good at, if we don’t have a selling background and sales training, of course.).

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Get your team up and over the line with data-driven sales coaching

Intercom, Inc.

Sales has an unavoidable reality: sometimes, your team won’t hit their numbers. Every manager should know how to effectively coach their reps. This coaching helps them drive their team and their company to greater productivity and higher sales. One of the first things I teach new reps is how to manage up.

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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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367: Radical product thinking for product managers – with Radhika Dutt

Product Innovation Educators

Building products is how you create change. Your title is irrelevant—if you’re building products and thinking about how to engineer change, you’re applying product thinking. [9:05] I realized we need to change how we build products. Building products is how you create change. 22:13] Prioritization.