Elena's Growth Scoop

Elena's Growth Scoop

Growth Matrix

Winning formula for long-term growth.

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Elena Verna
Mar 02, 2023
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Have you asked yourself if your company should invest in Product-led Growth motion? Sales-led Growth motion? How about Marketing?

But that is the wrong question to ask.

Not IF, but WHEN

You must play across all growth notions and levers to create a predictable, sustainable, and competitively defensible growth model. The question you should ask is not IF, but WHEN. Because if you don’t invest across all growth motions available, you leave a window of opportunity for competition to enter and disrupt.

Introducing: Growth Matrix

Growth can be visualized via growth levers x growth motions.

Growth levers:

  • Acquisition: How do you acquire?

  • Monetization: How do you monetize?

  • Retention: How do you activate and engage?

Growth motions:

  • Product-led growth: The product is responsible for the growth lever.

  • Marketing-led growth: Marketing is responsible for the growth lever.

  • Sales-led growth: Sales responsible for the growth lever.

Playing across ALL squares is crucial to long-term growth strategy. But due to t…

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