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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. this time in conjunction with the 2006 Strategic Thinking exercise. Singapore for sales training – Déjà vu. Where am I?

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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! Frankly, selling pet food to adoring pet owners isn’t exactly a hard sell. Janna Bastow.

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The 3 core skills to master real-time selling

Intercom, Inc.

You execute demand generation programs to drive visitors to your website, qualify them, nurture them into sales opportunities and convert them into paying customers. The big difference is with the live chat funnel, you do this in real-time, which requires sales teams to exercise a few new muscles.

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Intercom on Product: Accelerating your strategy after COVID-19

Intercom, Inc.

” And so we went through this exercise, looking for these big areas of additional investment. I’d like to go back to your earlier piece just to help folks who are in the middle of this exercise. Maybe we should have a team on that. Or, “Hey, this part of the product over here does have a team working on it.

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Sustainable Product Strategy: How to Move from Outputs to Outcomes

Amplitude

Earlier last year, before we transitioned to outcome-based planning, the leadership team at Yesware did a thought exercise during an offsite. You can create sales training and prepare go-to-market plans for upcoming feature launches months in advance. Putting all the themes together, you could see a rough annual roadmap.

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Scaling and Positioning Sprout Social’s Product Marketing Team

Pragmatic Marketing

Sales Enablement has helped us scale our sales training efforts by taking on much of the tactical execution and providing great insight into the varied needs of each sales team — something that was incredibly time intensive for us prior to them coming onboard.

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Scaling and Positioning Sprout Social’s Product Marketing Team

Pragmatic Marketing

Sales Enablement has helped us scale our sales training efforts by taking on much of the tactical execution and providing great insight into the varied needs of each sales team — something that was incredibly time intensive for us prior to them coming onboard.