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Hot off the Press: Koala for Marketers

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      children: "We've learned that many of the best B2B companies — especially those with a PLG motion — have woefully inefficient sales conversion of enterprise accounts because they fail to recognize and act on enterprise buying signals."
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      children: [_jsx(_components.strong, {
        children: "Somewhat unintuitively, the strongest indicator for an enterprise sales qualified opp isn't product usage data, but rather when someone in your enterprise ICP does research on your website, help center, and technical docs."
      }), " Most enterprise buyers aren't early adopters sending production data without an Enterprise MSA, so you typically won't find them using the product but rather doing research on your enterprise offering."]
    }), "\n", _jsx(_components.p, {
      children: "Koala Content Reports are different from what you'll see in any other marketing attribution tool, so we wanted to dive deep into the origin story, show an example content report, and teach you how you can apply learnings to drive more pipeline and drive top-level company strategy."
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      children: "In our early days, during our quest to find product-market fit, we were interviewing as many fast-growing B2B PLG companies that would talk to us. We were trying to learn about the ways in which these companies were leveraging product usage data to drive upsell, cross-sell, and expansion. But what we found really surprised us."
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      children: "Much to our surprise, the most advanced PLG companies were not building models based on product data. Yes, somewhere in the company there was some BI dashboard that reported on all of the over-quota users and these companies had set up an inside sales team focused on getting those accounts right-sized, but that wasn't where they were really generating the majority of their pipeline."
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      children: "So what were the most advanced companies doing? They were working with their data science teams to build sophisticated MQL definitions. Specifically, they were trying to understand every single action that a prospect could take across the entire buying journey — including content consumption, form fills, product lifecycle events — and they were trying to understand which of these actions was most correlated with a sales qualified opp being created."
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      children: "What several of these companies had found is that high product usage wasn't actually the biggest predictor of true enterprise sales qualified opps. Enterprises buy software very differently from the initial \"PLG\" cohort of early adopters. Enterprises are much more risk-averse — for instance, a true enterprise probably isn't going to send real data into the system without a legal agreement in place. What they found is that enterprises were actively engaged and \"in\" the store, but instead of driving product usage, they were consuming a lot of very specific marketing content. They were trying to understand how the enterprise offering worked — checking out the security posture, whether or not existing enterprise systems could integrate with the product, how various advanced features worked, etc."
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      children: "If you zoom out slightly, this makes perfect sense: (most) people don't read technical docs for fun — people read this content because they have a problem they are trying to solve and they are a bit stuck, so they need help. And it turns out: if you try to start a conversation with someone who is stuck right at the moment they need help, they are about 50-100x more likely to start a sales conversation than they would be on the average Tuesday morning."
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        children: "Understanding different parts of the journey."
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      children: [_jsx(_components.strong, {
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      }), " A few of our customers have been surprised at the topics that were leading to SQOs. For instance, one customer realized that some of the features they had made available on the self-service plan were shooting off the charts as features that predicted a sales conversation. After layering in some qualitative research, they realized that despite the feature being available on self-service, it was often too complicated to actually use without support, so it was leading to Sales conversations. They are now shipping an update to pricing and packaging that removes this feature from the self-service plan (and instead are adding some other features that weren't actually leading driving sales conversations)."]
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      }), " You can slice and dice your Content Reports in lots of ways — for instance, if you want to see which blog post or case study converts the best, you can easily filter. We've seen customers use this to figure out which content is working so they can make more content like that, but also so that they can leverage their best content in sales plays."]
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      children: ["We obsessed over hundreds of Content Reports for leading hypergrowth SaaS companies to understand what type of content leads to a higher win rate... we compiled it into our own report. Check it out: ", _jsx(_components.a, {
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