01/Product-led · sales-led

Growth for B2B, whichever way the funnel runs.

Marque is the growth copilot for B2B companies between $1M and $25M ARR, whether the product is the funnel or the funnel runs through sales. Either way, your founding marketer can't run every experiment alone. Marque gives them a team of agents that can.

02/The fork

Two funnels. The same loop.

B2B growth comes in two shapes. In product-led, the funnel ends at a paying account: signup, activation, free-to-paid. In sales-led, it ends at qualified pipeline your reps close: AEO, demand gen, intent. The work underneath is identical: diagnose what's stuck, draft the experiment, ship it, read the result, start the next one smarter.

Product-led
#11

Free-to-paid

Variation B won
Improvement
+9.2%
vs. control
StageMetricDeltaInsight
ActivationFirst-week PQL rate+11.0%Prompt moved to the value moment
LifecycleD7 activation email+4.0%Keyed to whether the user activated
Revenue14-day reverse trial+9.2%Beat pure freemium
Ends at a paying account
Sample readout
Sales-led
#14

Demand gen

Variation B won
Improvement
+18%
vs. control
StageMetricDeltaInsight
Acquisitionvs / alternative-to pages+31%Built to get cited by answer engines
ConversionDemo-request page+12%Led with the outcome, not the feature list
PipelineMQL → SQL routing+18%Intent-scored, high-intent first
Ends at qualified pipeline
Sample readout
03/The pain

Where growth gets hard.

01

Your founding hire owns content, SEO, paid, lifecycle, and the site. The growth backlog has 40 ideas and ships close to zero a quarter.

Both motions
02

PostHog, Stripe, HubSpot, Google Ads, Search Console: five dashboards and no single picture of what's actually stuck.

Both motions
03

You track logins and feature clicks, but can't name the first action that predicts a paying account, so every test optimizes the wrong thing.

Product-led
04

The SEO that carried you is going zero-click, AEO rewrites the rules monthly, and CAC climbs as you buy back traffic you used to earn.

Sales-led
04/The surfaces

Where we go deepest here.

AEO & programmatic
Comparison, alternative-to, and use-case pages built to get cited, measured on what converts, not just what ranks.
Sales-led
Landing & CRO
Demo-request and signup pages tested against outcome-led copy, wired to your real conversion event.
Both motions
Lifecycle & nurture
Activation emails to paid for product-led; intent-keyed nurture to qualified pipeline for sales-led.
Both motions
Analytics & attribution
Activation diagnosis, PQL/MQL scoring, and finding where your conversion data quietly breaks.
Both motions
In-product
Upgrade prompts and onboarding nudges timed to the value moment, not the paywall.
Product-led
05/Example experiments

Experiments we'd run here.

If you run product-led
01

Diagnose the first-week action that separates 90-day accounts from week-one churn, and make it your activation metric.

02

Trigger the upgrade prompt at the value-realized moment, not when a user hits a wall.

03

Test a 14-day reverse trial against pure freemium.

04

Rewrite the pricing page around outcomes per tier instead of feature lists.

If you run sales-led
05

Build the comparison and "alternative-to" pages answer engines cite, and track which ones convert downstream, not just rank.

06

Rewrite the demo-request page around the buyer's outcome; test it against the feature-list control.

07

Score leads on product and site intent; route the high-intent ones to sales first.

08

Sequence a nurture track keyed to where the lead went quiet, not a generic drip.

For sales-led teams, the loop runs acquisition → lead → nurture → qualified pipeline. We hand the qualified opportunity to your reps. We don't run the sales conversation.

06/Request access

Now taking design partners.

A small number of founding partners. If you're product-led and somewhere between $1M and $25M ARR, we'd like to talk. Limited spots.

A 30-minute call with the founders. No forms, no automated sequences.