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3 Proven Ways To Help Your Sales Team Beat Quota

The Secret PM Handbook

Co-opting product management into sales. My good friend Geoffrey Anderson ( @ganders2112 ) recently wrote about a situation we product managers sometimes find ourselves in. When sales are not going well, company leadership might ask product management come in to help hit the numbers.

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How Communicating More Can Help You Succeed as a Product Manager

The Product Guy

Guest Post by: Lonnie Rosenbaum (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Marc Abraham]. Sharing product information within your company is one of the most valuable things you can do as a product manager. Create slides to walk the audience through: What’s been happening with the product (e.g.,

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What is the Product Operations Career Path?

ProductPlan

Product operations is an increasingly important part of the product ecosystem. This supporting function enables the success of the product management team. As product operations staffing matures, so has the range of titles, responsibilities, and career pathways in this discipline.

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Sustainable Product Strategy: How to Move from Outputs to Outcomes

Amplitude

Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. As a product person, and the VP of Product at Yesware , I’ve never come to fully embrace the discussion of what each team would deliver, in what sequence and within a long timeframe. You can sell to the future of where the product is headed.

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Mismatched Expectations: Product Information and Sales Teams

Mironov Consulting

 This post lays out a related challenge: finding a scalable way for product management to support sales organizations rather than individual sales opportunities.  So a product manager might have 5% of their time in total for deal-specific sales support.  This is a must-close.”

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Product Management System Basics

ProductPlan

What is a Product Management System? As a product manager , you’ll want to answer a series of questions before you start work. And at least one dedicated software application to help you take your products from concept to launch. So, what do we mean by a product management system? Task management.

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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?