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I’ve abandoned “MVP”

Mironov Consulting

Almost without fail, I find that the “maker” side of software companies (developers, designers, product folks, DevOps, tech writers…) and the “go-to-market” side of software companies (sales, marketing, support, customer success.) The go-to-market organizations really want something to market and sell. Sound Byte.

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Two Development Team Configurations I Lobby Against

Mironov Consulting

2] Overflow or Special Project Teams Overflow or Special Project Teams tend to be pushed from the Sales/Go-To-Market side of the organization out of general frustration with perceived Engineering (and Product) throughput or velocity problems.    Here’s my thinking. [1]  We’ve gotten out of our own way.

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Creating a Product Launch Training Program

ProductPlan

To make this a home run, you need sales and marketing to come up to bat. Marketing needs to know the value of the new product. The first internal group to train is marketing. Marketing will ultimately craft the actual language for their pitch, but that doesn’t mean you skimp on training.

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Creating a Product Launch Training Program

ProductPlan

To make this a home run, you need sales and marketing to come up to bat. Marketing needs to know the value of the new product. The first internal group to train is marketing. Marketing will ultimately craft the actual language for their pitch, but that doesn’t mean you skimp on training.

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Correlation vs. Causation in Customer Success

Gainsight

Specifically, they are creating premium “Customer Success Plans” which often including premium support, training, professional services “points,” and advanced Customer Success. CSM Is Like Marketing: CSM as a Sales Input. Marketers created a well-defined (though often debated!) The concept of a “lead” was brilliant.

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Guide to Choosing the Best Customer Education Platform for SaaS

Userpilot

In this article, we’ll look at various customer training tools available on the market. Customer education refers to the process of teaching customers how to use and find value from your product. But before then, the features below are a must-have for any customer training software: Contextual in-app guidance.