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Saying Goodbye

The Product Bistro

Memories of note, and there are many: My first day, grabbing a flight to Singapore to participate in the APAC sales training. Sales training in 2004 in Europe. Singapore for sales training – Déjà vu. March 10 2009, my 6th anniversary. Where am I?

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3 Proven Ways To Help Your Sales Team Beat Quota

The Secret PM Handbook

There are parts we might not be as good at, if we don’t have a selling background and sales training, of course.). So, we should be good at least at some parts of selling it.

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The Editor’s Notebook: Privacy and Data Security, Retraining Sales Teams

Pragmatic Marketing

What’s odd, though, is that only 23% of companies consider their current sales training programs to be effective. Bob Kelly, chairman of the SMA, said the association’s research identified five specific areas of focus correlated with high levels of improved training effectiveness and higher sales performance.

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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.

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The Universal Product Management Framework: 3 Questions and an Org Chart

Product Management University

If you’re in product marketing , the answers to these questions are the foundation of your market materials, sales tools, campaign messages, sales training, etc. If you’re in sales , there’s a 1:1 correlation between your win rate and your ability to get the answers to these questions. Related Articles.

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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.

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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.