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Product-Led Growth Strategy: Let Your Product Do the Selling

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Growth loops, activation, PQLs, freemium and pricing — the playbook for products that sell themselves
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What you'll learn

  • Define product-led growth precisely — and tell in one audit whether a product is actually PLG or just has a free tier bolted onto a sales motion.
  • Choose the right go-to-market motion (product-led, sales-led or marketing-led) from deal economics, product capability and buyer behaviour — not preference.
  • Design growth loops from first principles: the five loop types, loop anatomy, cycle time and yield — and stack loops the way Slack, Figma and Notion do.
  • Shorten time-to-value: find a real aha moment with data (and without it), and rebuild onboarding around patterns that earn their place.
  • Pick and design the right free offer — freemium, free trial or reverse trial — with limits on the value metric and paywalls at genuine upgrade moments.
  • Build a product-led sales motion: define and score product-qualified leads, and time sales-assist outreach to actual usage.
  • Engineer built-in virality and network effects — invites, templates, galleries and referrals that ride on work users already want to do.
  • Price for PLG: choose a value metric that passes the three tests, package tiers that guide self-serve buyers, and run price experiments without burning trust.
  • Run PLG by the numbers: pick a North Star, read cohorts correctly, write a tracking plan, and hold a weekly review that ignores vanity metrics.
  • Adapt PLG to context — B2B SaaS, B2C/prosumer, marketplaces, enterprise — and name the failure modes before they happen.
  • Write your product’s one-page PLG strategy — who, motion, loop, capture and the number — using the capstone workbook.
This course includes:
4 total hours on-demand video
0 articles
0 downloadable resources
50 lessons
Full lifetime access
Access on mobile and TV
Certificate of completion
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Course content

Requirements

  • No background in growth is needed — every framework is introduced from zero and tied to a product decision.
  • A basic familiarity with SaaS products (you’ve used or worked on one) will help you apply the frameworks faster.
  • For the capstone, you’ll want one real product to strategise for: your own, your employer’s, or a public product you know well. You don’t need to buy anything.

Description

This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

What if your product sold itself?

Most SaaS growth is bought: ads, outbound, demos, discounts. Product-led growth is the alternative — the product itself acquires, activates, converts and expands customers. Slack spread through companies before procurement ever saw a demo. Dropbox’s free links were its acquisition channel. Calendly’s scheduling links land in front of a non-user at the exact moment of need.

Product-Led Growth Strategy is a complete, applied playbook for that motion — 50 short, animated lessons across 10 sections (4 hours 10 minutes), built by a growth and lifecycle marketer. Every framework ends in something you can run the same day: a loop canvas, a friction audit, a PQL scoring sheet, a pricing test, a 90-day plan.

What makes this course different

  • It’s loops, not funnels. Funnels leak; loops compound. You’ll learn the five loop types, how to measure yield and cycle time, and how to stack loops — with Slack, Figma, Notion, Zoom, Loom and Canva dissected, not just named.

  • It covers the whole motion, not one trick. Activation and onboarding, the free-offer engine, product-led sales and PQLs, virality and network effects, pricing and packaging, metrics and analytics — then PLG by context (B2B, B2C, marketplaces, enterprise).

  • It teaches the failure modes nobody posts about. Loop cosplay, activation optimism, metric mirages, enterprise capture — the quiet ways PLG programmers die, named with their diagnostics.

  • It ends with a strategy, not a goodbye. In the capstone you’ll score your own product, design its loop, size its PQL tiers and write its one-page PLG strategy — using the downloadable PLG Strategy Workbook.

How the course is organized

You’ll start with PLG foundations and the motion decision, build your first growth loop on a whiteboard, then work through activation, the free offer, product-led sales, virality, pricing and metrics. Section 9 adapts everything to your context — B2B SaaS, consumer, marketplace or enterprise — and Section 10 turns it into a 90-day roadmap with a prioritization framework and a one-page capstone strategy.

If you market, manage or build a SaaS product, this course changes how you see every signup, every invite and every upgrade prompt. Your product is already selling something. This course teaches you to make it sell on purpose.

Who this course is for:

  • Growth marketers and lifecycle/email marketers who want the product, not just campaigns, to carry acquisition and expansion.
  • Product managers and founders deciding whether PLG fits their product — and how to build it if it does.
  • SaaS teams (product, growth, sales) aligning around usage: PQLs, sales-assist and the product-sales treaty.
  • Marketers moving from funnel thinking to loop thinking, with real-company teardowns to learn from.
  • Students and career-switchers who want a structured, case-study-driven tour of modern SaaS growth.
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