In a product-led world, sales needs to be able to leverage insights from all user activities to make their outreach relevant. How enabled is your sales team?
Want a PLG Consultation?1. More than ever VCs expect profitability
2. Consumers expect more of a B2C experience
To accommodate these changes, companies are turning to product-led growth which allows them to be more efficient with their buying cycles and to dramatically improve their products based on user wants and needs.
Buyers more informed, closer to point of purchase
Enables faster shorter sales cycles, lower CAC, better enabled customers
Creates tighter feedback loops and faster platform evolution
In fact, a recent OpenView report found that product-led companies were twice as likely to grow more than 100% YoY compared to sales-led companies. The opportunity is astronomical.
But there are many challenges to running an effective product-led strategy, including team alignment, data realization and visualization, and sales enablement. In fact, many companies outright fail.
We created a maturity model that will not only show how effective PLG can be achieved but also give you the diagnostic tools to evaluate your current motions and understand what can be done to reach the next level.
Most Companies approach their product-led with either a top down motion (sales led) or bottom up (freemium, free trial led) and connect the customer journey and more efficiently realize revenue.
Companies are very motivated in closing the gap between these motions because there is a massive amount of untapped pipeline sitting in a company’s product and/or their data warehouse. In fact, we recently polled a panel of CMOs and 67% reported that they are still trying to effectively monetize their product-led motions.
When you start looking into the data you’ll often find a combination of scenarios:
There are accounts that have signed up, are actively using your product and are prime for upsells but the sales team does not have access to user data or the correct signals.
Conversely, marketing may be feeding a high volume of user leads to sales teams that are not ready or willing to expand, creating frustration and wasting efforts.
There are also some users that have already become paying customers, swiping their corporate credit card and hoping to never talk to a sales rep and doing so will only alienate them.
These are common challenges even for the best PLG companies.
In a product-led world, sales need to be able to leverage insights from all user activities to make their outreach relevant.
This maturity model is meant to provide a quick assessment of where your company is at and how others have gotten to the next level. While the levels increment there is no need to go through all of them one by one.
How to recognize
When companies start to build a data strategy, the first inclination is to bring on data scientists and to build in depth dashboards. However, they are going to build them in tools of their choice, not tools that sales or go-to-market teams use on a daily basis and the result is awesome reporting with little adoption. If teams are not accessing or are confused by the data available, then it is still useless in the PLG cycle.
Why this is an issue for your business / pitfalls
You’ve wasted valuable company resources on unused dashboards
Further looks, deep dives require more queries and data scientists support
You have to dedicate training, retraining and sales enablement time and resources to get teams up and running on new tools and dashboards
Recommendation
Sales team is your end user so in building your dashboards you need to consider how they will use them. Look to incorporate it in tools they use everyday and limit the information to the most relevant points. Ideally, companies scaling their PLG motion will skip this step altogether.
Some Important Next Steps
Embed the dashboards in Salesforce to avoid switching tools
Contextualize the reports to be specific to the account being considered
Ensure the reports are highly actionable
How to recognize
The Data team bought a reverseELT tool and is pushing some aggregated product usage info into Salesforce.
Why this is an issue for your business / pitfalls
You run into overly complex workflows or Frankestack situations adjustments are dependent on engineering teams to maintain
You lose agility and timeliness with outreach
Recommendation
Operations or data teams should never define the go-to-market strategy. Instead, have sales share what data is most useful to them in their deal process and work to make those insights easily accessible in Salesforce or their tools.
Some Important Next Steps
Spend time with Sales to understand which data points are helpful and how they would use them
Spend time understanding what data is accessible and how it can be aggregated
From there work on putting together requirements for iterations
How to recognize
Multiple aggregated data points are used across the customer journey to prioritize, classify and trigger operations.
Why this is an issue for your business / pitfalls
You will need strong alignment between product & sales to understand what important milestones to trigger off of
Timeliness and strong messaging is key
Automation can help with your agility but with it, you can sacrifice personalization
Need to find a balance between Buddy A.I. and Police A.I.
Recommendation
Spend time with Product & Marketing to identify milestones of the customer journey (in product + education) in order to orchestrate outreach accordingly.
Some Important Next Steps
You’ll need to develop messaging and desired content for each milestone
Consider new channels for outreach and audience sizes
Figure our how to engage users the way they prefer to be engaged
How to recognize
You made it, PLG nirvana. Data is used to power operations and Sales is provided data driven recommendations. Each new product user is classified against personas defined by enablement to be allocated into the right sequences. Data about engagement fuels personalization and triggers.
Recommendation
Don’t get too comfortable. GTM has moving targets, the product evolves, your motions as well. Ensure you have a high pace of iteration and keep learning
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