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The Funnel is Dead. Long Live the Flywheel. With Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The age-old sales funnel has worked fine for decades…until now. Why is the sales funnel alone, no longer an appropriate way of thinking about customers? But a go to market advantage, business model advantage, that is much more sustainable. Make this much about the business model when you go to market.

Scale 106
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Product-Led Growth (PLG) Funnel vs. Flywheel

User Pilot

PQLs are highly likely to convert during the sales process and drive customer acquisition in the future. There are four main types of PLG funnels for you to choose from: Self-serve funnels. This stands in stark contrast to PLG flywheels that leverage users who use the product regularly as acquisition engines.

Scale 105
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The Funnel is Dead. Long Live the Flywheel. With Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The age-old sales funnel has worked fine for decades…until now. Why is the sales funnel alone, no longer an appropriate way of thinking about customers? But a go to market advantage, business model advantage, that is much more sustainable. Make this much about the business model when you go to market.

Scale 45
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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Capital

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? If you go back to thinking about what kind of company is a great fit for PLG, there are two important criteria: The first one is your target segment, your customer size. The sales team is more involved.

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Data Analytics Can Only Take You So Far. Confessions of a Data-driven CMO.

OpenView Labs

All we had to do was build a better product for an under-addressed, but large, market segment. The Internal Marketing Organization – Building around Real-life Sales Funnels. In this scenario, marketing is typically treated as a service because it takes on a supporting role in a product-led environment.

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