Hila Qu
Growth Advisor @ Independent
Former growth leader at GitLab (IPO) and Acorns. EIR at Reforge.
βAdding a PLG motion, covering B2B products, growth systems, and team leadership.β
Career History
| Company | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Independent | Growth Advisor & Reforge EIR | ~2020-present |
| GitLab | Head of Growth | ~2019-2020 |
| Acorns | VP of Growth | ~2017-2019 |
| GrowthHackers | Product Manager, Growth | ~2015-2017 |
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βAwesome. I should have made it three posts, three part.β
The ultimate guide to adding a PLG motion | Hila Qu (Reforge, GitLab)
βMaybe I can give an example first and then we can talk about the other question. So I can use GitLab as an example since that's where I'm most familiar. GitLab actually have a enterprise sales team, v...β
The ultimate guide to adding a PLG motion | Hila Qu (Reforge, GitLab)
βYou can do a audit like this yourself, right. Just imagine if you are a B2C user trying to buy a product, you want it to be easy. Ideally, PLG for B2B can be that easy as well. So go through that proc...β
The ultimate guide to adding a PLG motion | Hila Qu (Reforge, GitLab)
βYou should probably start with activation. Activation is actually a common good starting place for most B2B software.β
The ultimate guide to adding a PLG motion | Hila Qu (Reforge, GitLab)
βAnd you can, again, a lot of similar tactics you use in activation conversion actually can be beautifully applied in expansion, because it's almost a combination of getting people to the aha of that f...β
The ultimate guide to adding a PLG motion | Hila Qu (Reforge, GitLab)
βI can share some of my example at a course my-β
The ultimate guide to adding a PLG motion | Hila Qu (Reforge, GitLab)
βAnd then you need to have an experimentation tool because, like I said, you cannot just imagine you build everything and everything works perfectly. So you need either like Optimizely, I know Amplitud...β
The ultimate guide to adding a PLG motion | Hila Qu (Reforge, GitLab)
βAnd in terms of conversion, I would say there are many product-led growth, product-led sales tools. I think those are great. If you want to build out your PQL/PQA conversion pass, think about Endgame,...β
The ultimate guide to adding a PLG motion | Hila Qu (Reforge, GitLab)
βYour customer success team can take a much deeper view in understanding what the clients are using, rather than just talk with the executives from the client and get a rough gauge of the situation. So...β
The ultimate guide to adding a PLG motion | Hila Qu (Reforge, GitLab)
βRight, what are the gaps? And you may need to do some reinstrumentation, reformatting and things like that before you even plug into a product analytics to make it useful.β
The ultimate guide to adding a PLG motion | Hila Qu (Reforge, GitLab)
βNo, you can bring me, but you don't have to bring me. I think there are, if you search on Google just the data dictionary, or data product usage, data audit, a lot of companies published template and ...β
The ultimate guide to adding a PLG motion | Hila Qu (Reforge, GitLab)
βAnd then you can just scroll through. Basically the key idea is go through your product experience, identify the key actions, and go through your data instrumentation and see, "Do they match?"β
The ultimate guide to adding a PLG motion | Hila Qu (Reforge, GitLab)