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Product-Led Marketing: How to get traffic and users for your product at a near-$0 CAC

Kyle Poyar · Lenny's Newsletter Free Intermediate

Concrete plays with named examples: Zapier's 70,000 programmatic pages, Airtable's template library, Figma's free editor. This is what marketing looks like when the product is the channel.

  • CAC needs to stay under about $1 per unique visitor for the PLG math to work.
  • Organic search drives roughly 40 percent of new users, product virality another 16 percent.
  • Zapier built more than 70,000 programmatic 'connect x + y' landing pages.
  • Make activated signups your north star metric, not traffic or raw signups.
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It answers 7 questions

  1. How do I decide what to write about so it brings in buyers and not just traffic?
  2. Our product is self-serve. How do we get users without a sales team?
  3. I just joined a PLG company as my first GTM job. What do I actually do all day if the product sells itself?
  4. Activation has been flat for three quarters despite a lot of experiments. How do I diagnose that as a leader?
  5. Which companies have genuinely fast time to value, and what did they cut to get there?
  6. How do the very best companies use pricing itself as the growth engine rather than a checkout screen?
  7. What does a genuinely great growth team look like, and how is it different from marketing?

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