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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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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. Here at Intercom, we use live chat to qualify our inbound leads. It happens for a multitude of reasons — loss of budget for the project, change of leadership, better competitive offering.

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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 Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Startups That Win by Steve Blank?—?This Venture Building 1.

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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. At the director and VP level, you should be thinking about strategy and proactive, not reactive, work. Get the right people on – and off – the bus.

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The 7 Best Free SaaS Software Training Resources

Userpilot

We’ll be discussing topics spanning from Product Management, Product Marketing, to Analytics and Leadership. It will help you develop a solid strategy in four simple lessons. HubSpot Academy’s Inbound Marketing Course. Developing a solid social media strategy. Best Free Online SaaS Training/Courses. CXL Institute.

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The Activities of a Strategic Product Manager

ProductPlan

How can you take responsibility for the vision and shape the future of your product when you don’t control strategy at the corporate level?”. Developing a Product Strategy. You must elevate these business-critical strategic components of your product leadership role into your schedule on a regular–even daily–basis.

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Building a sales team in a high-growth environment

Intercom, Inc.

Whether you’re bringing on your tenth or hundredth salesperson, you need to discuss the “must-haves” with your leadership team. We’ve adopted a strategy of consultative, value-based selling – one that is transparent and informative and meets buyers where they are in the purchasing process. Start with your non-negotiables.

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