Once we've set strategic direction, and we have a better idea of who our customers are and the product benefits that they look for, we should consider which go-to-market approach to execute.

Product-Led growth is an approach which uses your company products as the main vehicle to acquire, activate, and retain customers. If you’ve used Dropbox, JustPark or the Revolut Payment Card you’ve witnessed this first-hand — you didn’t read a lengthy whitepaper or have a sales-person contact you. You just signed-up and started using it.

Unlike sales-led companies where the whole goal is to take a buyer from Point A to Point B in a sales cycle, product-led companies flip the traditional sales model on its head.

Product-led companies invite the buyer to use the product and help them experience a meaningful outcome whilst using the product.

Once they’ve seen the benefit, paying for the service becomes a no-brainer.

Understand the value to your customer

In order to build a successful product-led business, you need to understand what value you are giving to your customer. This is part of being a customer-centric organisation. Then you need to make sure you communicate that value to your customer in a way that is relevant to them. Once you communicate your value, then you need to make sure that you deliver that value.

Product-Led growth will save you from the flood of rising customer acquisition costs and decreasing willingness to pay for your product.  

If you'd like to discuss how a product-led approach to business can reduce your cost to acquire customers, then we'd be pleased to have an introductory call.

Get in touch

Implementing a product-led organisational structure also delivers significant benefits, which is explored in another post.

A Product-Led Organisational Structure
We believe that time-honoured organisational structures and funding methods are no longer relevant. In order to create a customer-centric business it’s time to pivot the organisation and place Enterprise Architecture, Product Management and Engineering at the heart of the company.
David SeacombeDigital Transformation Leadership

Next: Products, Architecture & Value

If each business had unlimited time, money and resources, it would ace its revenue growth, and dominate its market.  But this is rarely the case.  In Products, Architecture & Value we discuss the need to design Products  to meet your organisation’s Enterprise Architecture principles. Otherwise well-meaning activities will result in products that cause a drag on the corporate ability to support them, and the wins from delivering value to your customers will be diluted.

Products, Architecture & Value
Driven by innovation, competition and/or acquisition, the design of products becomes more complicated and they are introduced to the market at a quicker pace. We need to ensure that our products properly architected and we need to stay focused on the value that they deliver to our customers.
David SeacombeDigital Transformation Leadership