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

Mind the Product

There is probably one part of the product management job we can all agree is the hardest – people. We all come to product management from different backgrounds, but one thing that has long been true and is only just starting to change, is that when we start this job our training generally consists of Googling.

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Scaling and Positioning Sprout Social’s Product Marketing Team

Pragmatic Marketing

At Sprout Social, Product Marketing's key stakeholders have remained Product Management, Sales and Marketing. This is partially true simply because Product Marketing traditionally does not scale in headcount at the same rate that the rest of the Product and Sales Orgs do," he said.

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Scaling and Positioning Sprout Social’s Product Marketing Team

Pragmatic Marketing

At Sprout Social, Product Marketing's key stakeholders have remained Product Management, Sales and Marketing. This is partially true simply because Product Marketing traditionally does not scale in headcount at the same rate that the rest of the Product and Sales Orgs do," he said.

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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. What can be cut first?

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Pragmatic Live Transcripts (Prioritizing Your Product Launch)

Pragmatic Marketing

Hello and welcome to the Pragmatic Live podcast series where we tackle the biggest challenges facing today's product management, product marketing, and other market and data driven professionals with some of the best minds in the industry. Yes, my name is Marcus. I'm a principal product marketer here at HubSpot.

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Pragmatic Live Transcripts (Prioritizing Your Product Launch)

Pragmatic Marketing

Hello and welcome to the Pragmatic Live podcast series where we tackle the biggest challenges facing today's product management, product marketing, and other market and data driven professionals with some of the best minds in the industry. Yes, my name is Marcus. I'm a principal product marketer here at HubSpot.

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It’s time to get your Ph.D. in Sales Comp

Product Beautiful

The product team I managed was responsible for the integration, product management, and transition. What I learned during this time about Sales behavior was a shock to my system – and may help you as well. The first time we trained one of our hundreds of new Sales teams, we knew we had an issue.

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