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Pure Freemium
it was important to get as many users as possible to help us rank higher organically and improve our product. We saw the importance of tapping into a customer feedback loop as quickly and efficiently as possible.
So we decided to go all-in on a pure freemium model.
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Our Core Differentiators
Product-led growth has a customer-centric mentality and prioritizing which is vital to success.
- Delivering Value Fast
- Make onboarding easy, don't make users do anything too complicated, and create a quick path to the "Aha! moment."
- Play the long game
- We succeed ...
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The Bottom Line
The main goal of starting as a product-led organization is that we were able to get the product used by more users than if we had started as sales-led. In addition, giving users a free product to use eliminates a barrier to entry – pricing.
From there, we received real insights into the ne...
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Limited Freemium
We noticed that other quiz apps on the Shopify platform applied a limited freemium option, which meant you'd be allocated 5,000 quiz engagements every month for free. Anything over that, you would be bumped up to the basic plan at $39 a month.
We didn’t find this a good model because, by t...
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Undermining Revenue Potential
Users have to experience a product without any sales pressuring them to try it or buy it.
We then went through a slew of doubts about our product:
- What if our product is not an MVP?
- What if it has limitations?
- What if it has shortcomings other apps in the market ...
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The Value Of Free
The biggest challenge might be that users don’t value the product if they don’t pay for it. We know users typically always value a product they have a stake in. If it’s free, it’s easy to fall into that pile of tools that are left behind and forgotten.
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Challenges of Making Freemium Work
To be competitive on the PLG platform, you need to:
- Get feedback from users.
- Bring greater value to the product from the feedback.
- Improve marketing, messaging, and copy.
- Have reviews that comment on these differences.
- Finally, get revenue from your prod...
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The Business Model
We found the majority of the apps on the Shopify App store are product-led; however, nobody was giving users free access to the entire product before they bought it.
We established that we needed the following to be competitive on the Shopify platform:
- Get feedb...
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14-day Free Trial
When we thought about our product-led approach, we had to think about the steps for a user to derive value. The onboarding phase had the following steps:
- Decide on the quiz questions needed.
- Put the quizzes together.
- Implement it.
- Design it.
The use...
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Product-Led Growth(PLG): A Case Study
The PLG model is about showing users what your product can do for them.
Our goal was for our product to be an MVP, and in doing so, it was essential to have a tight feedback loop between our users and the product. Basically, we needed as many people to use the app to gathe...
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Competitive Analysis
We discovered from looking at the organic ranking that the following factors came into play:
- Number of Customer Reviews
- Overall Rating
- Price
- Feature Set
- Word-of-Mouth/Referral
Word-of-mouth became more important than we initially anticipated....
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