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9 essential sales steps you need to grow your SaaS startup

Intercom, Inc.

In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. Despite that value, however, there’s a drawback – a lack of formal sales training and sales process can seriously undermine those initial efforts. Meet your target users and get feedback.

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What is the Product Operations Career Path?

ProductPlan

A product operations manager at a smaller technology company may engage in different activities than someone at a larger firm. Meanwhile, smaller companies need more tactical support around managing data, tools, and communications. What do the sales or marketing teams need to know about a product?

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The Editor’s Notebook: Privacy and Data Security, Retraining Sales Teams

Pragmatic Marketing

Data Security Becoming Increasingly Important for Consumers With data breaches becoming increasingly common, consumers are realizing that their personal information is at the mercy of the organizations they’re doing business with—resulting in changing attitudes around security. So, what will make consumers feel more comfortable?

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How Communicating More Can Help You Succeed as a Product Manager

The Product Guy

Sharing product information within your company is one of the most valuable things you can do as a product manager. Invite people not only from Product & Tech, but also Support, Sales, Training, and any other relevant group. Research initiatives (e.g., recap the last release, usage data). What’s coming up soon (e.g.,

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Sustainable Product Strategy: How to Move from Outputs to Outcomes

Amplitude

I want to make the case, informed by the writing of Marty Cagan , particularly his book Inspired and by learning from Teresa Torres , through her workshops and team coaching , that output or feature-based roadmapping is a thing of the past in product management. Then they solicit feedback from internal stakeholders to inform planning.

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Stop Selling Your Product, Start Selling Your Point of View | April Dunford | BoS USA Online 2020

Business of Software Conference

April Dunford BoS USA Online 2020 from Business of Software Conference. Get Weekly Advice From Software Experts. But they don’t necessarily know what the state of the art is on these technologies. And but then after a while I spalunk around and I figured out, there’s actually a category software for doing this stuff.

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How to Build a Solid SaaS Onboarding Strategy: Step-by-Step Guide

Userpilot

Having an effective SaaS onboarding strategy is essential to user success and, by extension, customer retention. In this article, we’ll go over why you need a SaaS customer onboarding strategy, the key components of a successful customer onboarding process, and how to create your customer onboarding strategy in 10 steps.