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How Communicating More Can Help You Succeed as a Product Manager

The Product Guy

Hold a recurring meeting once per month that gets you in front of a cross-departmental audience. Invite people not only from Product & Tech, but also Support, Sales, Training, and any other relevant group. Sync with certain people in advance of this meeting to prepare material. Aim for a 50-minute meeting.

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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. Meeting with Dow and others. All the visits and furious meetings with ASE Global, PPT, Nanya, and Ibiden. Need I say more? How naive he was then.

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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.

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Get your team up and over the line with data-driven sales coaching

Intercom, Inc.

Sales coaching is a series of teaching methods used to improve the performance of reps. The concept of coaching is different from sales training: sales training is usually the same for everyone, while coaching is based on the individual needs of each rep. 5 data-driven sales coaching tips for managers and leaders.

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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! Go meet your stakeholders. Janna Bastow. Ask questions. Get in the building.

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The Great Silence

The Product Coalition

Very sadly, most product managers I meet today no longer talk directly to customers regularly. too many meetings. They ask questions, make demands, which lead to the very meetings product managers seem to drown themselves in, preventing them from seeing customers or doing meaningful work. most invariably say zero.

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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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