Episode 115: Product-Led Sales, Community-Led Category Creation, and Unlocking Revenue Data with Alexa Grabell
May 2, 2023
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Alexa Grabell, a tech professional, shares insights on Product-Led Sales strategy and community building. She discusses Pocus' founding story, product roadmap, and hiring lessons. She advocates for gender equality in tech and emphasizes the value of a community-driven approach to product growth.
Focus on customer feedback for product roadmap development.
Treat community growth like product development, prioritize quality interactions.
Deep dives
Prioritizing Product Development
For prioritizing product development, it is crucial to focus on listening to customers, community insights, and prospective customers to determine the most critical needs to incorporate into the product roadmap. By constantly learning and iterating based on feedback, the team can ensure that the features added align with the highest value propositions for users.
Creating a Valuable Community
Building a strong community involves treating it like a product, where constant learning and evolution are key. By providing value through events, AMAs, and discussions, while focusing on quality over quantity, a sense of authenticity and trust is fostered within the community, leading to its sustained growth.
Advice for Female Entrepreneurs
For smart, driven female entrepreneurs looking to start their own company, the advice is simple: take the leap and just do it. Overcoming imposter syndrome and the fear of failure is crucial. Starting with small steps, like talking to prospective customers and developing ideas, can lead to valuable learnings regardless of the outcome.
Alexa Grabell is the co-founder and CEO of Pocus, a Revenue Data platform that is purpose-built for GTM teams to analyze, visualize, and action data about their prospects and customers without needing engineers.
Alexa’s passion for Product-Led Sales started when she led sales strategy & operations at Dataminr, where she built internal solutions to equip sales teams with data. She studied engineering at Vanderbilt University and received her MBA from Stanford University.
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