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How can a sales-led company generate PQLs (product-qualified leads)?
Hereโs how Athennian does it using interactive demos ๐๐๐
One of the major benefits of a product-led strategy is that customers can easily experience your product and see the value before having to speak with sales.
Instead of generating MQLs that only measure the intent of buyer based on consumption of your marketing materials, product-led companies have PQLs that score leads based on engagement with their actual product.
For sales-led companies, this may seem impossible, but that isn't the case.
Companies like Athennian are using an interactive demo platform to generate their own PQLs.
Ok, so here's what they do.
1๏ธโฃ Create capability-focused demos
They started by creating a series of interactive demos, focused on specific product capabilities. This allowed them to keep each one short and digestible.
2๏ธโฃ Align demos with customer pains
They gave each demo a title that reflected an actual pain / job to be done in their platform.
3๏ธโฃ Build a self-serve "Demo Center"
They then created a hub where buyers could choose from their entire collection of demos, based on their need and interest.
4๏ธโฃ Capture emails to track engagement
They gated the Demo Center, letting them track what demos a prospect viewed (and finished).
5๏ธโฃ Created lead scoring rules
Finally, they created lead scoring rules in their CRM based on demo consumption.
Hereโs what this lets them do ๐
When a prospect starts to engage with these demos, Athennian is able to score them as if they were using a real product ๐
And since the tours are aligned to real customer pains, their marketing and sales team also knows exactly what messaging to use in their follow up ๐ฏ
A big shout out to Sydney Lawson, who talked about this strategy in Navattic's customer interview series lat week.
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