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How to Survive the Hardest Part of Product Management by Janna Bastow

Mind the Product

Janna had a sales job in college and recounts how intense the training was – with role-playing exercises, secret shoppers, and scripts – and how focused it was on dealing with people. But the training was intense! “I’ve spotted a trend: a bad roadmap is a symptom of underlying issues in the company.

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The Great Silence

The Product Coalition

Very sadly, most product managers I meet today no longer talk directly to customers regularly. I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. too many meetings. most invariably say zero. Not enough time?—?too

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Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis on telling stories that sell

Intercom, Inc.

The problem, Doug says, is salespeople tend to focus too much on their company and the names on their client roster, rather than connecting with their audience. Previously, however, he ran sales productivity for teams at Google, Salesforce and Box. How are they running their meetings? The easiest way to do that?

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Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis on telling stories that sell

Intercom, Inc.

The problem, Doug says, is salespeople tend to focus too much on their company and the names on their client roster, rather than connecting with their audience. Previously, however, he ran sales productivity for teams at Google, Salesforce and Box. How are they running their meetings? The easiest way to do that?

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Rules & Tools For Scaling Software Sales | Stephen Allott, Seedcamp| BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

It’s an online website which is really a catalogue for cloud services and products and consultants and developers to build Government digital and cloud implementations and I think it’s transacted over £3 billion since it started. Serious business of Sales. Which is more recent 2012 to 2018.