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Five Opportunities for CS in a World Full of AI-Driven Change

Gainsight

Tip 2: Invest in Sales Training for Your CSMs An easy step to get CS closer to the revenue and expansion pipeline is to give CSMs access to the type of training that their Sales team gets. “If If you break down what Sales and CS do, a lot of the activities are the same,” says Dhaliwal. “If

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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 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! Frankly, selling pet food to adoring pet owners isn’t exactly a hard sell. Janna Bastow. Ask questions.

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Top 10 Instructional Design Software For Creating Customer Training Programs

Userpilot

On the positive side, customers say Articulate 360 is user-friendly and more engaging than creating simple PowerPoint presentations. Converts PowerPoint presentations into mobile-friendly courses. Brainshark is a sales training and readiness platform that trains client-facing teams on how to perform better.

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Top Customer Success Trends To Watch For In 2020

Gainsight

It’s been lightly edited for clarity and length and includes slides from Nick’s presentation. Sometimes CSPs [Customer Success Professionals] didn’t have this cause they hadn’t gone through sales training, they didn’t understand all the basics that maybe a salesperson might. Nick Mehta.

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Do It For the Portfolio Instead of Every Product: Five B2B Product Management Best Practices

Product Management University

Sales Training. The goal is to make sure sales dialogues lead with a strong vision and a differentiating value story that’s supported by all products. When it comes to sales training, products play a supporting role, not a leading role. Doing It For the Portfolio vs. Every Product: Netting it Out!

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Mismatched Expectations: Product Information and Sales Teams

Mironov Consulting

 Plus time with Marketing (launch, messaging, product marketing content), Finance (packaging, pricing, forecasts), Support, Customer Success/Implementation, and broad Sales training and enablement.  Plus  So a product manager might have 5% of their time in total for deal-specific sales support.