April Dunford on product positioning, segmentation, and optimizing your sales process
with April Dunford · Jun 2022
Weak positioning often stems from misalignment across the organization—founder, marketing, sales, product, and customer success all have slightly different understandings. The only way to fix it is to get all these functions in a room together to build positioning collaboratively, ensuring everyone leaves singing the same song.
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