PLG Strategies to Grow Users from the Bottom Up with Yaakov Carno

2023-02-13

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This episode of the Live Better Sell Better Podcast features Yaakov Carno, Founder of Valubyl. Is PLG the right strategy for you? Yaakov breaks down the questions companies must first answer before deciding that PLG is the one for them.He then discusses the differences between PLG and a traditional sales-led motion which flows from the buyer down to the user. Yaakov shares some experience best practices for successful PLG which primarily includes finding and getting feedback from real users and then sharing this data...

This episode of the Live Better Sell Better Podcast features Yaakov Carno, Founder of Valubyl. Is PLG the right strategy for you? Yaakov breaks down the questions companies must first answer before deciding that PLG is the one for them.

He then discusses the differences between PLG and a traditional sales-led motion which flows from the buyer down to the user. Yaakov shares some experience best practices for successful PLG which primarily includes finding and getting feedback from real users and then sharing this data across the organization.

HIGHLIGHT QUOTES

The top 3 qualifiers for PLG - Yaakov: "I like to break it down into 3 categories that each company has to ask themselves to see if PLG is the right fit for them. And there is a huge misunderstanding that complex products don't fit PLG. That's not true at all, but there are certain things that don't work as well. So the 3 things are self-servability, user motivation, and permissions and accessibility."

PLG prioritizes the value provided to the end user - Yaakov: "The alignment that needs to be between product leadership and sales leadership to even understand the different roles of packages and pricing because the packages are going now have to be redesigned in a way that expresses the increase in end-user value rather than organization value, even on the enterprise level where classic motions... just has organizational value."

Share the end user feedback across departments - Yaakov: "Feedback should be prioritized in the deepest sense across the organization. So one thing that I see that companies struggle with, but if you get this right, it's such a fuel for growth, is sharing feedback across departments because sales, the feedback they're getting should be affecting the product roadmap and product data that the product managers are getting and analyzing should be affecting the way that CS is interacting with the customers and the next marketing campaign."

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