Product Led Sales for Revenue Leaders
This course is a “how to” guide on launching a hybrid sales motion on top of your PLS flywheel to maximize your revenue potential. Students will learn how to surface the best opportunities to convert from your existing user base and target them with PLS Playbooks, as well as run retention and expansion plays to protect your Net Dollar Retention (NDR).
Sandy Mangat, Instructor
Sandy is currently the Head of Marketing at Pocus, a Product-Led Sales platform that helps go-to-market teams turn their product data into revenue. She is a go-to-market expert, specializing in product-led motions. Sandy has spent the better part of the last decade working at the intersection of strategy, creativity, data, and product. Prior to joining Pocus, she held various marketing and growth leadership roles at venture-backed startups, scale-ups, and fortune 500s.
Course curriculum
This course is designed for GTM leaders across Sales, Success, and Marketing who are interested in optimizing revenue levers through more value-driven sales tactics. You should already be familiar with PLG and are now looking for strategic advice and tactical information you can use to layer in sales to your self-serve flywheel.
Session 1:
Setting up your Product Led Sales (PLS) Motion
By the end of this class, you will be able to:
- Define and test PQL/PQA through hypothesis formulation, running experiments, metrics to track, iterating, and refining
- Understand which tools are required (including PLS platform and DIY workarounds)
- Set up your first playbook
Session 2:
PLS Data and Metrics
By the end of this class, you will be able to:
- Select PLS metrics to track including how to measure, analyze, and optimize
- Understand common examples of product usage data used in PLS playbooks
- Map product usage triggers to your playbook goals
Session 3:
GTM Team Structure
By the end of this class, you will be able to:
- Lead cross-functional efforts including assigning owners at different stages
- Assign playbook ownership by teams according to goals
- Identify compensation best practices
Session 4:
PLS in Real Life
By the end of this class, you will be able to:
- Define and test PQL/PQA through hypothesis formulation, running experiments, metrics to track, iterating, and refining
- Understand which tools are required (including PLS platform and DIY workarounds)
- Set up your first playbook
Expected Results
By the end of this school, you will have the knowledge and skills to be able to:
- Increase net new revenue: surface and action better quality leads for free to paid conversions
- Increase revenue expansion: spot and act on opportunities for expansion, consolidation, up-sell, and cross-sell
Increase NDR: Take a proactive approach to churn prevention with the right product signals - Lower CAC: Increase sales efficiency by surfacing warm leads – and leave the rest to automated marketing nurture
- Discover how a hybrid motion can level up your product-led philosophy by refining your ICP definition, informing your product roadmap, and helping users unlock value
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