About Forget The Funnel

 We believe that helping companies, especially in tech, to be more customer-led will help them deliver more value, be more successful, and be better places to work & grow.

We've been where you are

We've built best-in-class brands from the ground up and played key roles in revenue growth. We’ve been in the trenches as growth practitioners & leaders, figuring out what works and what doesn’t.

Here's what we know after helping to grow dozens of multi-million dollar SaaS companies: the answer to nearly every growth-related challenge you or your team experiences can be found in your customers. You just need a process for gathering customer insights and operationalizing them for your team to turn them into revenue-generating customer outcomes.

Oh, and by the way, we also offer services to help SaaS companies identify & act on high ROI opportunities. If you're curious to learn more, check out our Growth Sprints.

Meet the Co-founders

Georgiana Laudi

Co-Author of Customer-Led Growth, Georgiana Laudi

I've been building and launching brands online since Y2K was a thing. In 2009, I started working with tech startups and SaaS companies and never looked back.

Because SaaS lives and dies by the value delivered to customers — and retention over time — marketing's impact on revenue extends far beyond the more traditional acquisition focus. In SaaS, marketing (whether you call it that or not) has a huge role to play, and a critical seat at the table. To me, that makes marketing & CX in tech one of the most innovative, interesting, and increasingly in-demand areas of specialization.

It was while leading Marketing for Unbounce (a largely marketing-led SaaS) that I discovered customer experience mapping. One where the entire relationship with customers — from experiencing the problem to engagement and expansion — is measured not based on transactional moments and business metrics, but instead on customer’s success milestones.

I realized that if I could operationalize the process of helping customers reach their goals, we'd reach ours. And we did. The following year, we grew revenue nearly 900%.

Since then, I've worked with SaaS teams like Sprout Social, Appcues and dozens more to take customer insights and turn them into revenue-generating outcomes.

Claire Suellentrop

Co-Author of Customer-Led Growth, Claire Suellentrop

I've always been drawn to the process of uncovering hidden stories and crafting narratives.While these skills are a pretty obvious requirement in journalism (where I assumed for years I'd build my career), it wasn't until life took a major turn — and I began leading marketing at Calendly — that I really understood how critical those skills are to business growth, as well.

It was during those years at Calendly that I first learned about Jobs To Be Done: a research process that helps uncover a customer’s motivation for buying a product.

JTBD put language around a concept that I inherently "got," but had previously lacked the vocabulary for: that people "hire" a solution to improve their own life in some way, and they "fire" that solution when it no longer serves them (then switch to something else). Your product is just one little hire-able, fire-able detail in that person's larger narrative — their life.

I realized that if a company can stop talking about its own product, and instead tie its product to customers' needs and desires, that company will win more business.

Since then, I've used the JTBD process to help dozens of companies — including Wistia, FullStory, MeetEdgar, and many others — uncover the hidden stories of their customers' experience (why customers "fire" old solutions and decide to "hire" those companies), and weave those stories into customer-focused growth strategies & marketing narratives — to the tune of record-breaking new user signup rates and trial-to-paid conversion increases.

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