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The Phenomenal Product Manager: Product Marketing versus Product Management

280 Group

We’ll be using the term Product Manager to refer to both Product Managers and Product Marketers. The easiest way to think about the difference between these two is to think of them as inbound and outbound. Market Analysis, Business Cases and Profit and Loss Investigation. Customer and Market Research.

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From first touch to qualified lead: How to use live chat for sales

Intercom, Inc.

For many years, B2B companies have executed their inbound sales funnel in a traditional manner that looked a little something like this: Visitor prospects. Marketing qualified lead (MQL). This can involve calls, emails, targeted messages, and other highly personalized one-to-one outreach. Sales qualified lead (SQL). Opportunity.

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How to Build Custom Funnel Reports in SaaS

Userpilot

Inbound marketing funnel reports focus on the effectiveness of marketing efforts in attracting the interest of potential customers and turning them into leads. Outbound marketing funnel reports help organizations evaluate the impact of and refine their outbound processes, for example, cold emailing.

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Marketing-Led Growth: How It Differs From Other Growth Strategies?

Userpilot

How is marketing-led growth different from product-led growth and sales-led growth? You will also learn how to choose the right growth strategy for your SaaS and how to leverage marketing-led growth to achieve your business goals. Paid advertising, like PPC or display ads, is another common marketing strategy used by SaaS companies.

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Creating An Enterprise SaaS Marketing Strategy

Userpilot

How is enterprise SaaS marketing different compared from acquiring and retaining users for an SMB? Inbound works really well for smaller SaaS businesses, whether B2B or B2C. Pair that with in-app communication and you’ve got a pretty good marketing strategy. What is enterprise SaaS marketing? Longer sales cycles.

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A New Inbound Approach To Customer Success

Gainsight

If you’re familiar with HubSpot, then the word that probably comes to mind is “inbound.”. In 2018, based on a new set of observations, we decided to update one of the core concepts of inbound marketing. Today, we’re going to adapt the inbound methodology to encompass tenets of customer success. How do you do it?

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Product Management Roles: Whose Job is it? [+Webinar]

280 Group

The two groups your Product Managers are likely to work with most closely are your engineering/development and sales and marketing teams… Cue the role confusion. Sales and Marketing teams. When separate individuals comprise these roles, both need an intimate understanding of the market the product is a part of.

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