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What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape

Harvard Business Review

The AIDA model and its variants are the basis for sales funnels at many B2B firms. The typical funnel starts with a marketing-generated lead for a “suspect” that, after qualification, becomes a “prospect,” and then a customer through steps that are measured and managed. Don’t believe the hype.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

If the company is building a SaaS CRM, there may be more requirements around experience with go-to-market and customer lifecycles than how the product itself is built. Eriksson, Banfield and Walkingshaw ’s book Product Leadership has a section that has a lot more detail on this topic).