Turn your SaaS product into a growth engine

Online course:
Product-Led SaaS Growth Course

By Wesley Bush, marketing scientist @ Traffic Is Currency

Course length: 8h 30m

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Ever wondered how Slack, Dropbox, or Trello grew to be such unbeatable juggernauts in their industry?

It’s because they executed on a product-led growth strategy.

When it comes to growing SaaS companies, most people are following a traditional, top-down approach and using demo requests as the main way of qualifying new business.

This course will show you how you can adopt a bottom-up marketing approach and build a sustainable, product-led growth engine.

Introduction video (2 min)

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Wes is a talented, passionate B2B marketer who goes far and beyond with everything he does. With his hands-on approach to B2B marketing, Wes is focused and dedicated to surpassing the goals he sets.One thing is for sure, if anyone asks me for a full-stack growth solution for their B2B business, I’m pointing at Wes.

Talia Wolf, Founder of GetUplift

In 8 sessions you’ll learn how to…

  • Put together a successful product-led growth strategy that will help you get some quick wins under your belt before the course is even finished
  • Avoid some of the most painful bottlenecks when it comes to acquiring and activating free trial and freemium users
  • Help more people experience the core value of your product and (actually) want to upgrade

This course will show you how you can adopt a bottom-up marketing approach and build a sustainable, product-led growth engine.

Wes always has a smile on his face and curiosity for life that is contagious to everyone around him. The thing I admire most about Wes is that he is never satisfied with the status quo, he is always searching for ways to better optimize our programs and elevate the business.

Kim Koserski, Demand Generation Manager at Vidyard

This course is right for you if…

  • You have a free trial or freemium offer and want more users to convert to paid customers
  • You are interested in implementing a free trial or freemium offer in your business and want to fast-track the time it takes to put together a successful strategy
  • You have tried to implement a free trial or freemium offer, but maybe it didn’t work out for you.

This course is probably not for you if…

  • You believe a free trial user should be treated the same way as a demo request
  • You think you can get free trial users to upgrade simply by bombarding them with hundreds of automated messages
  • You aren’t curious about how to make a new user of your product successful.

Skills you should have before taking this course…

The course is suitable for everyone, but it helps if you have:

  • Worked in a software-as-a-service (SaaS) business in the past
  • Experience in optimization
  • A base-level understanding of digital marketing

About your instructor, Wes Bush

Wes Bush

Wes would rather jump out of a plane than read about what skydiving feels like. Similarly, he rather test out a promising software product than read a whitepaper about how “life-changing” the product is going to be.

Last time Wes checked, he has generated well over 130,000 free trial users since founding Traffic Is Currency, an agency that specializes in this kind of thing.

Wes is a highly energetic, well-versed growth marketer with excellent instincts about what triggers the right responses from B2B SaaS audiences. He has a particular eye for finding opportunities for conversion optimization and crafting language that is both on-brand and gets conversions.

Matthew Levin, VP Marketing at Simplereach

Your full course curriculum

Product-led SaaS growth

1 Show, don’t tell

Learn the key elements that go into creating a product-led growth engine. Topics covered: Considerations when deciding between a free trial or freemium offerCore differences  between a traditional and product-led growth modelMaster three core fund …

2 Say goodbye to MQLs

If you’ve used Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) in the past, you need to dramatically change the way you approach lead qualification when building a product-led growth strategy. For this to work, you need to use Product Qualified Leads (aka PQLs) as yo …

3 Segment & conquer

Dive into two frameworks that you can use to find your best customers and multiply them. Topics Covered How to find your best customers in a sea of dataWhat you need to ask your favorite customers. Yes, this means actually talking to them (spoiler aler …

4 Identify your product’s aha moment

Learn what to look for when going through the user journeys of your favorite customers. Topics Covered Identify your product’s aha moment without pulling your hair outWhy you need to know your product’s “job-to-be-done” and how to define it for your bu …

5 Optimize for value

See how you can eliminate “busy work” in your current onboarding process (if you have one) and help more people experience the value of your product. Topics Covered What to look for when trying to find your product’s aha momentHow you can create an onb …

6 Create an onboarding track

Learn how to build several onboarding tracks that will help you get new users experiencing your product’s core value. Topics Covered What the top 1% of SaaS companies do differently when onboardingThe most painful mistakes to avoid when building an onb …

7 Customer success

Software is quickly becoming a commodity and as a result, it’s more important than ever before to help your users become successful or you risk a competitor stealing your hard-won customers. Topics Covered Why your free trial & freemium content eng …

8 Converting more free trial users to paid customers

In this final class, we’ll cover a battle-tested checklist that you can use to constantly fine-tune your onboarding experience. This is a timeless process you can use to find bottlenecks in your onboarding experience. Topics Covered How to dissect onbo …

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Once the course is over, pass a test to earn a CXL certification.

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