PLG Cohort 3 - Q3 2023

Understand Product-led Growth to formulate a strategy that includes PLG without wrecking your existing business.

Leah Tharin

Product & Growth executive / PLG Advisor

Product-led Growth in B2B

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_____________07:00 PM (19:00), GMT+2, five sessions over 2.5 Weeks_____________ The top quartile SaaS companies between 5 and 20m in revenue are growing over 70% year over year, with an 8 month CAC payback, 110% Net dollar retention while having an 85% Gross Margin with an average Annual Revenue of over 250’000$. (Source: Growth Unhinged 2023 Report) And at the heart of most them sits a deep understanding of Product-led Growth. * How do we in B2B adress the growing problem of everyone asking for an improved buying experience and self-serve? * How do you package your offering with freemium, trial and/or interactive demo? * How do we activate individuals, teams and accounts in B2B as cost efficient as possible to drive our pipeline? * How does Product-led Growth work with an existing Sales motion? * How do we structure a strategy to bring product-led growth into our business? Leah Tharin brought product-led growth as an operative, executive, and advisor to dozens of scale up companies to optimize their user acquisition, retention, and monetization. She's recognized as an Industry leader on the topic having written some of the most referenced Product-led Growth &amp; Sales material to date. Learn how to structure a (product-led) growth strategy that works for your business. It is designed for leaders from all functions who want to understand and not just blindly execute. The course runs over 2.5 weeks (5 live recorded Zoom classes). All sessions have prerecorded material for you to study in your own time, the live sessions are solely focussed on world-class guest speakers, collaborative group exercises and your questions. You can expect per week about 2-3 hours of study for the asynchronous material at your own pace + 60-75 minutes per live session. Over 20 Guest speakers from past cohorts for example :* Adam Fishman, SVP new products @ Mozilla, Investor &amp; Advisor* John Cutler, ex- Evangelist @ Amplitude &amp; Toast* Itxaso Del Palacio, General Partner @ Notion VC* Benjamin Lamson, Head of Paperspace Revenue @ DigitalOcean* Casey Hill, Sr. Growth Manager @ Active Campaign* Henrique Cruz, Head of Growth @ Rows.com* Sara Gattoni, Senior Lead Growth PM @ Lokalise* Andrew Davies, CMO @ Paddle...and many more This course is not a good fit for: * Companies pre product market fit which are extremely early in their journey. * Non-software or D2C companies * Highly regulated industries that deal with government contracts

How experienced Growth operators use PLG in B2B SaaS

Senior level product, growth &amp; marketing leaders in B2B who want to understand and leverage PLG as a distribution model to optimize growth.

Ideal for companies in B2B with some revenue traction post product-market fit.

GTM leaders wanting to understand why PLG is disrupting many classical distribution models.

Who is this course for

What you’ll learn

<ul><li>Review the core principles of product-led growth (PLG), beyond just trials and freemium</li></ul> <ul><li>Look under the hood of leading industry examples</li></ul>

Understand PLG and its impact on B2B growth initiatives

<ul><li>How to objectively measure customer success and operationalize it with meaningful, outcome-driven team goals</li></ul> <ul><li>How to establish growth in your organization that sticks with growth teams and culture</li></ul>

Increase the efficiency of your distribution model

<ul><li>How to move from activating individuals to teams and subsequently to accounts.</li></ul>

Individual vs. Team vs. Account Activation

<ul><li>How to find, define, and identify meaningful ICPs (Ideal customer profile)</li></ul> <ul><li>Driving them through our acquisition funnel and retaining them for long-term revenue</li></ul>

Find ICPs in Product-led Growth

<ul><li>How to combine the best from PLG and Sales-led Growth: Product-led Sales</li></ul> <ul><li>How to apply the principles of customer success signals, and their ICPs to qualify deals and drive efficiency in mid-market / enterprise segments.</li></ul>

Combine sales and Product-led Growth: Product-led Sales

<ul><li>Create a long-lasting Strategy to acquire customers while they are small and grow into bigger clients with time.</li></ul> <ul><li>Creating the conditions to have a product that grows with your customers</li></ul>

Drive expansion revenue through PLG

<ul><li>Community sessions to network and discuss with other cohort participants</li></ul> <ul><li>Access a dedicated Discord community after the course</li></ul>

Interactive community & special material

…the definition of PLG…where PLG sits in the market…when you might do PLG…PLG vs Saled-led Growth…Enterprise vs. Midmarket vs. Micro businesses…Best Conditions

What is product-led Growth

…freemiums…trials…reverse-trials…case studies, examples in the wild

Freemium, trial, reverse-trial

…understanding customer success stages…segmenting your users into ICPs (Ideal customer profiles)…turning funnels into loops, focussing on what matters

Defining customer success & ICPs

…separating the creation from capturing value…smart goal setting company wide

PLG strategy and goal setting

…Classical vs Growth Teams…(Growth) Product Skills…Your first Growth hire

"Growth” teams & PMs

…What is Product-led Sales…Shifting your perspective from users to teams… Product-qualified Accounts &amp; Leads…Expansion Revenue

Combining PLG with Sales: PLS

Course syllabus

PLG - The death of classical Sales in B2B SaaS

Interim Executive, Program Partner and Exec in Residence, Advisor for Product and Growth, Board Member

Growth Product Management Lead, Growth at 7Shifts

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We use the majority of the time to discuss as a group your specific challenges and questions you had from the async learning materials and to address Q&amp;A questions.

6 x one - hour long sessions with Leah

Before every session you get ~30min videos to ease you into the topics including some interactive exercises for you to prepare beforehand.

Asynchronous learning material

Miss a session? Not a problem, you will have access immediately afterwards.

All sessions are recorded

Course schedule

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