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Top Customer Success Trends To Watch For In 2020

Gainsight

The industry is constantly evolving and it’s important to stay ahead of the curve with new concepts and trends. 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.

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

Pragmatic Marketing

5 Trends for Retraining Sales Teams to Hit Goals It’s no surprise that salespeople who are well trained and equipped to sell are the ones who outperform their peers. What’s odd, though, is that only 23% of companies consider their current sales training programs to be effective.

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How Communicating More Can Help You Succeed as a Product Manager

The Product Guy

Invite people not only from Product & Tech, but also Support, Sales, Training, and any other relevant group. Ask co-workers in Support about common user pitfalls and analyze Support case trends with them. Ask co-workers in Sales and/or Business Development about common sticking points that prevent a deal from closing. (Or

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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! “I’ve spotted a trend: a bad roadmap is a symptom of underlying issues in the company.

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What is the Product Operations Career Path?

ProductPlan

Summarizing trends and themes from feature requests, support tickets, and churn reasons. Own special projects including the creation of product documentation, creation of sales training tools, writing product requirement documents. Documenting existing processes and systems within the product team for broader circulation.

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

Pragmatic Marketing

5 Trends for Retraining Sales Teams to Hit Goals It’s no surprise that salespeople who are well trained and equipped to sell are the ones who outperform their peers. What’s odd, though, is that only 23% of companies consider their current sales training programs to be effective.

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How to build, manage and scale a sales team – 12 strategies from the experts

Intercom, Inc.

I’m often asked the question of “Why sales?” The “Why sales?” question becomes even more pressing given the trend toward “bottom-up” product adoption – i.e., offering a given product for free or without a formal top-down sales motion, as is common with SaaS. In fact, if this is your sales training, just quit now.