article thumbnail

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. More About The Product Mentor The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Management Mentors and Mentees around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals….

article thumbnail

Saying Goodbye

The Product Bistro

I will be joining Open Text, a leader in Enterprise Content Management as the Senior Product Line Manager for the RightFax product line. 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. Where am I?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Mismatched Expectations: Product Information and Sales Teams

Mironov Consulting

Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and the go-to-market side (sales, marketing, customer success) of tech firms, especially at B2B/enterprise software companies.  That  This is a must-close.”

article thumbnail

How to build a billion dollar sales team like Stripe

Intercom, Inc.

But even for companies with this early viral growth, there comes a point in time when this organic growth needs to be supplemented with formal sales. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team. But as it started selling more and more into the enterprise, it staffed up with a deep and strong one.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

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.