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From Product Management Back to Strategy

The Product Coalition

My personal passion is to bring back this very important dimension into product management and leadership. Product Leadership Is a Business Role I make a distinction between product management and product leadership. Product management is the name of the profession and also a description of what some levels do.

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The Must-Read Book List for Building New Product Ventures

The Product Coalition

Leadership and management books haven’t been included because when you’re just a small team, amping up leadership capability provides less leverage than solid execution of the topics that I will cover. The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 Million by Mark Roberge?—?Builds

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How to Give Your Product Managers Negative Feedback (Part 1)

The Product Coalition

Or how working on outbound product management would make them better inbound product managers. although that’s what the job requires. In the examples I gave above, you can talk about how to make the impact at the magnitude they want to make, management buy-in is a must.

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From frontline manager to SVP of Sales: How to stand out in your sales career

Intercom, Inc.

If you are new to sales management, it can be hard to know what concrete steps you can take to improve your skills, be recognized, and eventually, rise to a senior leadership role. When you’re a rep, you could be thinking about outbounding to prospects, building pipeline, or moving forward the opportunities already in play.

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The Activities of a Strategic Product Manager

ProductPlan

You must elevate these business-critical strategic components of your product leadership role into your schedule on a regular–even daily–basis. Try these inbound/outbound efforts exercise by dividing your PM activities into either an “inbound effort” or “outbound effort” bucket. Product planning.

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License to sell: 5 strategies to hit your sales quota

Intercom, Inc.

As an Inbound Sales Development Rep, I face the challenge of not having any control over the leads that get passed to me. If you’re an outbound SDR , you may not know if the phone number you have is going to connect you to the right person or if that person you’re calling is in the market for what you’re selling.

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Case Study: How ReadyTech Use Product-Led In The Workforce Sector

BrainMates

These product managers are driving inbound and outbound activities, so they are part of the product team and the GTM teams. We also need to work in close partnership with the other teams, such as customer success, marketing, support, development, sales, professional services and leadership.