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How Communicating More Can Help You Succeed as a Product Manager

The Product Guy

Whether it’s your plans (roadmap), feedback you’ve heard from users, product usage data (analytics), or posing questions — getting what you’re doing and thinking in front of a cross-departmental audience will provide you with input that helps you make better decisions and will help align others with the goals you’re looking to achieve.

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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. If you ask; “How many customers did you speak to this week?” My view is that this evolution is bad for product management careers and the customers who benefit from what we do.

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9 essential sales steps you need to grow your SaaS startup

Intercom, Inc.

This makes sense given the likely resource constraints and the value to be gained from getting in front of customers from day one. As Jason Lemkin puts it , “The CEO/founder should close at least the first 10 (or 20 or whatever) customers. What matters is that somehow, someway, you still get those 10 paying customers closed.”.

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367: Radical product thinking for product managers – with Radhika Dutt

Product Innovation Educators

She has built products in industries including broadcasting, media, advertising, technology, government, consumer, robotics, and wine. We’ve been taught to keep iterating until you find product market fit—just keep trying different things. She also teaches entrepreneurship and innovation at Northeastern University.

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3 Proven Ways To Help Your Sales Team Beat Quota

The Secret PM Handbook

We’ll start with some assumptions: Let’s assume your product solves a significant problem, better than alternatives, for a particular segment, and you have some successful customers. There are parts we might not be as good at, if we don’t have a selling background and sales training, of course.).

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Top 10 Instructional Design Software For Creating Customer Training Programs

Userpilot

TLDR; Instructional design software helps you create custom eLearning courses and training material. Digital adoption platforms are specifically meant for user onboarding and customer training – showing new users how to use software applications. Happy customers = more revenue for you.

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How to build a billion dollar sales team like Stripe

Intercom, Inc.

But like so many other startups today, when they wanted to press the startup accelerator pedal down hard, they too looked to start building out a sales function. So how did they go from product-market fit to actually scaling a sales org around a repeatable sales process? Using data to drive outbound sales.