Episode description

On this episode of the Traction podcast, host Lloyed Lobo of Boast.AI welcomes Oji Udezue, Product Lead at Twitter (and former CPO at Calendly) and Michael Litt, Co-Founder and CEO at Vidyard.

The most successful IPOs and fastest-growing private companies of the past decade all started with a freemium, self-service product. Zoom, Atlassian, Slack, Dropbox are just a few.

But building a freemium, self-service product when you already have a successful enterprise business can seem like a daunting task.

There are a million questions: “Will it cannibalize my sales efforts? Do I need to build a new product? What mindset and skills do I need to have on the team?

In this session, Oji Udezue and Michael Litt join us for a masterclass on how to build a freemium, self-service offering to go from sales-led to product-led to drive massive growth. They'll be covering:

10:30 - The greatest risk to execution for a company

17:45 - Nuances and tactics involved in building a PLG strategy

24:20 - How to transition from sales-led to PLG

32:32 - How do you structure your product team?

43:42 - The concept of crossing the chasm

47:41 - The thought process of carving out a specific feature of functionality

50:01 - How to add virality, network effects, and viral loops to a product that isn’t necessarily viral

54:46 - Things Oji has done to create virality

57:29 - A good place to draw a line for paid versus free services

59:10 - How to create friction-free onboarding

1:05:09 - When is the right time to contact a customer?

1:09:00 - How to prioritize features with feedback from thousands of people

1:13:40 - Tips to empower customers to become ambassadors to grow your business

1:16:54 - Tools being used, from enabling to tracking


Learn more at https://tractionconf.io

Connect with Michael Litt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaellitt/?originalSubdomain=ca

Learn more about Vidyard at https://www.vidyard.com/

Connect with Oji Udezue: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ojiudezue/

Learn more about Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/

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