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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. It’s okay if you are ‘terrible’ at it.

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The Shortest Product Manager Job Ever!

The Accidental Product Manager

That’s why I was surprised when I got fired after two weeks on the job at my new product manager position. I had been working for a startup that had run into some financial problems. However, one of those weeks was filled with sales training for a batch of new sales people that had just been brought on.

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 Marrying Up: Partnering With Big Companies

Pragmatic Marketing

The competitive landscape for software companies, driven by venture-backed startups and disruptive business models and technologies, has only become fiercer in today’s economy. In the current economic environment, there has been an explosion of startups of all kinds. Big and Rich Matters. Clash of the In-Laws.

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 Marrying Up: Partnering With Big Companies

Pragmatic Marketing

The competitive landscape for software companies, driven by venture-backed startups and disruptive business models and technologies, has only become fiercer in today’s economy. In the current economic environment, there has been an explosion of startups of all kinds. Big and Rich Matters. Clash of the In-Laws.

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 Marrying Up: Partnering With Big Companies

Pragmatic Marketing

The competitive landscape for software companies, driven by venture-backed startups and disruptive business models and technologies, has only become fiercer in today’s economy. In the current economic environment, there has been an explosion of startups of all kinds. Big and Rich Matters. Clash of the In-Laws.

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

Business of Software Conference

Startups often struggle to communicate the value of their products, particularly in sales meetings. This is a talk about positioning, but a little bit more about how you communicate your positioning or share your positioning. And we’re a tiny little startup, some of those things look really expensive.

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Top 10 Instructional Design Software For Creating Customer Training Programs

Userpilot

Doesn’t work for employee training. It’s not affordable for really small startups: if $249 per month which might be a small fortune for some companies. On the positive side, customers say Articulate 360 is user-friendly and more engaging than creating simple PowerPoint presentations. What users say about Userpilot.