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The Shortest Product Manager Job Ever!

The Accidental Product Manager

The end can come for a product manager when they least expect it Credit: Bill Selak. So here’s a quick question for you: what is the shortest time that you’ve ever worked at a product manager job? That’s why I was surprised when I got fired after two weeks on the job at my new product manager position.

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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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How to build, manage and scale a sales team – 12 strategies from the experts

Intercom, Inc.

Growing a sales team isn’t as simple as putting a bunch of A players in a room and getting them to start selling your product. If you want to build a revenue engine that will fuel long-term growth, you need to build and scale your sales org with intention. 12 steps to build a world-class sales team.

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Mismatched Expectations: Product Information and Sales Teams

Mironov Consulting

 This post lays out a related challenge: finding a scalable way for product management to support sales organizations rather than individual sales opportunities.  Sales teams inundate us with urgent-but-repetitive ‘does product X do thing Y?’

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The Great Silence

The Product Coalition

Why have Product Managers stopped speaking to customers? Very sadly, most product managers I meet today no longer talk directly to customers regularly. I ran a survey with industry insiders and at least 50% of all product managers who responded haven’t spoken to a customer recently. most invariably say zero.

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16 Most Common Product Marketing Manager Job Interview Questions And Answers

Userpilot

Aspiring product marketers – are you worried about nailing your product marketing manager job interview? Product marketing managers’ role is to communicate a product's value to the market, promote and sell the product to the target audience. What is the product marketing manager role?

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16 Most Common Product Marketing Manager Job Interview Questions And Answers

Userpilot

Aspiring product marketers – are you worried about nailing your product marketing manager job interview? Product marketing managers’ role is to communicate a product's value to the market, promote and sell the product to the target audience. What is the product marketing manager role?