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You need to make sure that next steps are clear to everyone so that they can work tougher as an integrated team. And you need to know that while you’re off raising money or converting a $1 million deal into a $5 million deal with your biggest customer, your team is doing what you expect of them, even when you’re not there. Her VP of Marketing was designing their new website, and he needed and actively sought a lot of buy-in from the team. When he says something, sometimes he’s just brainstorming, sometimes he’s offering a different perspective and sometimes he’s directing his team to do something.

If you still need a little more explanation on what a PQL is, I created a short video on the topic below: Before we dive into how to identify a PQL, I wanted to take a second to list out what PQLs are NOT: * PQLs are not people who upgrade their free planSomeone who signs up for a free trial does NOT qualify as a PQL Now that I’ve probably scared you away from thinking through what a product qualified lead could look like for your business, I recommend checking out some great PQL definitions so that you can see how simple they truly can be. To keep marketing aligned on driving quality signups, these are the top two metrics that need to be prioritized: When setting up metrics for teams, I always recommend having both a quantity and a quality metric to ensure that each team isn’t sacrificing quality in order to attain the quantity metric. When it comes to monitoring the success of the free trial for the engineering team, these two metrics are helpful: When engineers are responsible for key metrics that involve the product they’re building, I often find they can come up with brilliant ways to improve user adoption.

Andy Wilson is the Founder & CEO of Logikcull, a legal tech startup that’s revolutionizing how lawyers handle document discovery. In this episode, Andy explains why they pivoted from an annual subscription model to pay as you go and the implications this had on the business as a whole (spoiler: it changed everything). He also dives into how their mission drives decision-making and what they’ve done to help their customers have an amazing experience. Prefer to listen on iTunes?

Specifically, drilling into the question of why Customer Success fears owning revenue and examining the irrationality of that fear, why owning revenue is a natural extension of what Customer Success does and why it is good practice for the Customer Success executive to own revenue. Owning quota does not mean a CSM cannot do right by the customer and owning revenue does not mean that compensation must consist of revenue quota for individuals. If compensation models align driving vendor revenue with customer business value realization, and they encourage the right internal behaviors to promote that, then the decision to have quota carrying individuals or not becomes a pragmatic business decision based on available skill sets to carry out the plan. Start thinking of Customer Success owning revenue as a result of customers gaining business value and staying loyal versus a compensation model, and Customer Success will find the right structure for its resulting compensation model.