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Customer-Led Growth™

Say goodbye to guesswork and make smarter decisions that drive predictable revenue.

What is Customer-Led Growth™?

Customer-Led Growth™ (CLG) is a strategic approach that leverages customer insights to qualify and quantify customer value, then operationalize and optimize the end-to-end customer experience.
Customer-led growth does not presume what marketing, sales, or product experience your business should offer. Rather, it begins with creating organization-wide understanding around what experience is most appropriate for the company's best customers. Value to customers is then delivered — whenever, wherever, and however they need it — throughout their relationship with the company.


In a customer-led organization, both customer-facing and technical teams rely on KPIs representative of value to customers (rather than business metrics), above all else, to build acquisition, engagement, retention, and expansion strategies. Companies who unambiguously and rigorously qualify and quantify the value created for customers across the organization will thrive.

Deeply understanding your best-fit customer influences whether you implement strategies that are product-led (like Slack, Ahrefs), sales-led (like Salesforce, Marketo), engineering-led (like Facebook, Stripe) or marketing-led (like Buffer, Drift).

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on Customer-Led Growth™

Say goodbye to guesswork.


You'll learn the systematic, repeatable method we use to help companies — like Bitly, dbt Labs, Sprout Social, FullStory, Wistia, Appcues, EverCommerce, and hundreds more — calm the marketing chaos and hit ambitious revenue targets.
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The Forget the Funnel Podcast

If you're a SaaS founder or exec looking to help your GTM teams make smarter decisions that drive more predictable revenue — because you know what got you here won't get you there — this show is for you.
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We work with SaaS and AI teams who...

Have happy customers, but you struggle to cut through the noise and acquire new ones
Know there’s a ton of growth levers you could pull, but aren't sure what to prioritize
Have low (or slowed) signups, conversions, worrisome churn or have hit a revenue plateau
Offer a robust, feature-rich product, but most customers only use a fraction of the feature set
Serve a broad range of customers without alignment on which ones have the highest growth potential
There's been a shift in the market and you need to adapt your positioning, messaging & team accordingly
Pretty well every team faces at least one of these challenges as they grow. When it's your team...
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Customer-Led Growth Resources

Georgiana Laudi & Claire Suellentrop

Forget The Funnel

[Live Replay] Understanding Customers' Needs When All Bets Are Off

Live Session

Rand Fishkin

Co-founder & CEO of SparkToro

How Rand Fishkin Uses Customer Insight to Make Critical Decisions for SparkToro

Expert Interview

Georgiana Laudi & Claire Suellentrop

Forget The Funnel

How to use Jobs To Be Done for SaaS Growth Strategy

Workshop

Georgiana Laudi & Claire Suellentrop

Forget The Funnel

The Growth Framework for Customer-Obsessed SaaS Teams

Workshop

Georgiana Laudi & Claire Suellentrop

Forget The Funnel

Checklist: Conversion Best Practices for Messaging [Google Doc]

Tool

Georgiana Laudi & Claire Suellentrop

Forget The Funnel

How to Plan Feature Launch Messaging to Maximize Adoption

Workshop

Georgiana Laudi & Claire Suellentrop

Forget The Funnel

How to Quickly Create a Killer SaaS Value Proposition

Workshop

Ashley Greene

CEO of the Instratify Group

How SaaS Leaders Can Cultivate and Maintain Customer Empathy at Scale

Workshop

Tara Robertson

Head of Customer Marketing at Sprout Social

Retention Optimization: How to 10x Growth Through Customer Marketing

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Co-Founder & CEO, Nektar
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