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    • Stage 1: Baseline Fact Gathering — Building Your Intelligence Foundation
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    • Stage 4: Battlecards & Enablement — Turning Intelligence Into Sales Motion
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    Free Website Chat. A Great Product Led Growth Story

    Today I experienced one of the best new product implementations since I…

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    The Cost of Non-Customer Acquisition: The Ugly Truth

    Acquiring customers is the biggest challenge any B2B software company has. Unless…

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    Open Source Competitive Intelligence for Product Managers

    White Hat competitive intelligence is a skill every product manager should have…

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    21 Lessons From Jeff Bezos’ Annual Letters To Shareholders

    Excerpted from the CBInsights article.  Read the entire piece here: https://www.cbinsights.com/research/bezos-amazon-shareholder-letters/ Since…

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    Prioritizing Agile Backlogs

    Prioritizing Agile epics, user stories, and backlogs is something contemporary product managers…

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    Competitive Intelligence: Finding Revenues of Private Tech Companies

    As a product manager, it is helpful to understand the relative size…

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    Why Your Firm Should Sponsor an Annual Survey

    I admit that I am a data junkie. I have found that…

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    Moneywheel – A Revenue Sourcing Analysis Technique for Product Managers

    20 years ago I learned a technique for analyzing product line sales…

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    Should You Ever Fire a Customer?

    The polite answer to this question is “no”. In some circumstances the…

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    Pareto Principle & Product Management

    This post focuses on leveraging Pareto Analysis in product management.  We will…

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