product-led-growth

SKILL.md

Product-Led Growth is a go-to-market strategy where the product itself drives acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization. Instead of relying on sales to close deals before users can try the product, PLG lets users experience value first and buy later.

The core insight: In PLG, the product does the selling. Users sign up, experience value through self-serve, and either convert themselves or become qualified leads for sales.

PLG is fundamentally Data-Led Growth (DLG). When you give away a free product, you get two things in exchange: broader reach (lower barrier to entry) and usage data that tells you which features correlate with conversion and retention. Without this data foundation, you're giving away your product for nothing.

Use when asked about "product-led growth", "PLG strategy", "self-serve growth", "freemium model", "free trial design", "product-led sales", "PQL", or "bottoms-up growth". Helps design and optimize product-led growth motions where the product drives acquisition, activation, and monetization. Based on frameworks from Elena Verna and Hila Qu. Source: wdavidturner/product-skills.

View raw