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by Georgiana Laudi
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Every SaaS company eventually hits the same wall. Growth stalls. Conversion rates plateau. The tactics that worked last quarter stop working this quarter. Teams respond by running more experiments, testing more headlines, tweaking more onboarding emails, and launching more paid campaigns. The result is almost always the same: more effort, more spend, and the same unpredictable outcomes.
**Author:** Georgiana Laudi **Estimated Reading Time:** 42 minutes
**What You'll Learn:**
- Why traditional marketing funnels fail to create predictable growth - How to extract deep insights from your best customers - A practical framework for mapping the customer experience - How to define metrics that actually measure customer value - A systematic approach to bridging gaps in your customer experience - How to build cross-functional alignment around customer insights
**Who This Book Is For:**
This book is for founders, marketers, product leaders, and growth practitioners at SaaS companies who are tired of guessing. If you have ever stared at a dashboard full of metrics and still felt unsure about what to do next, this book will change how you think. If your growth feels inconsistent, if your conversion rates fluctuate without explanation, if your team keeps running experiments that produce no meaningful lift, the problem is not your tactics. The problem is that you are operating without the right information.
Every SaaS company eventually hits the same wall. Growth stalls. Conversion rates plateau. The tactics that worked last quarter stop working this quarter. Teams respond by running more experiments, testing more headlines, tweaking more onboarding emails, and launching more paid campaigns. The result is almost always the same: more effort, more spend, and the same unpredictable outcomes. The reason is simple. Most companies are trying to optimize a system they do not actually understand. They have dashboards full of data about what users do, but very little insight into why they do it. They know how many people visited the pricing page, but not what those people were struggling with before they arrived. They know how many trial users activated, but not what those users were hoping to achieve when they signed up. They are flying blind while convinced they have perfect vision. Georgiana Laudi wrote Forget the Funnel to address this exact problem. Her central argument is both simple and profound: the information you actually need to fix inconsistent, unpredictable growth is found in one place, inside your best customers' heads. This is not a book about marketing tactics. It is a book about building a system for understanding your customers so deeply that every decision becomes clearer. When you understand what your best customers were struggling with before they found you, what triggered their search for a solution, why they chose you over alternatives, and how their lives changed after becoming customers, you no longer need to guess. You can build messaging that resonates, design onboarding that works, and prioritize features that matter. Laudi calls this approach Customer-Led Growth. The name is intentional. Most companies are led by their own internal assumptions, by competitor activity, or by…
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Get the complete summary in the appThe information you need to fix inconsistent growth is inside your best customers' heads.
Customers hire products to do jobs. Understand the struggle and the desired outcome.
Map the customer experience across three phases: Struggle, Evaluation, and Growth.
Focus on what customers are thinking, doing, and feeling at each milestone.
Define Customer-Led KPIs that measure customer success, not just activity.
Identify success gaps by comparing what customers need to what you provide.
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Motivated to help readers with the information you actually need to fix inconsistent, Georgiana Laudi wrote “Forget the Funnel” to package those ideas for a fast, focused read. In “Forget the Funnel”, Georgiana Laudi focuses on the information you actually need to fix inconsistent. Through “Forget the Funnel”, Georgiana Laudi distills the core ideas on business into lessons readers can absorb in a single short sitting. Readers turn to this work when they want Georgiana Laudi's perspective on the…
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