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Introducing the Service-Led Growth Group on LinkedIn

Liam Hannaford

The Service-Led Growth Group on LinkedIn is a virtual place to meet, interact and share ideas respectfully with each other on SLG. 

Service-led growth is an approach to growing resilient, adaptive and sustainable companies. Based on a growth flywheel that is kicked off with services that lead to subscriptions, data is gathered to generate insights that lead to new services. It is an alternative to product-led growth (PLG) that is less dependent on external financing.

The service-led growth flywheel works as follows: The initial engagement is a professional service that builds understanding and trust between the parties. The services are delivered through a software platform, service-led growth is every bit as reliant on software and user experience as product-led growth.

Build from professional services

Support software

Introduce a new technology

Integrate a mature technology

For further reading on the four paths to Service-Led Growth

“Fall in love with the problem (and the people who have the problem) not the solution.”

Service-led growth gives companies a new model to drive high profit and predictable revenues. If the problem you are solving requires human contact with your customers, long-term relationships, and can be delivered through software that gathers data and leads to insights, consider a service-led growth model.

Service-led growth is the best growth model for solutions solving complex problems in a scalable way.

Four paths to Service-Led Growth

Pricing for Service-Led Growth

Product-Led or Service-Led Growth: Which is a Better Fit for Your Business?

How to test if your Service-Led Growth flywheel is spinning

The Service-Led Growth checklist

Service-Led Growth is habit forming

What is Service-Led Growth?

Is Service-Led Growth relevant to manufacturers?

Metrics for Service-Led Growth

Introducing the LinkedIn Service-Led Growth Group (this post)

Five Growth Models and How to Price for Them

How growth models are used together (Sales-Led Growth, Product-Led Growth, Service-Led Growth, Relationship-Led Growth, Community-Led Growth)