Use Problem-Focused Content to Generate Demand

The best way to generate demand as a PLG startup is to focus your content on the problems faced by individual users.


Rule of thumb: the more specific, the better.


Here's an example with Figma.


When Figma entered the scene, they were providing a fundamentally new experience for designers.


To "create demand" for the new way, they needed to point out of the deficiencies of the current way of doing design.


Current way:


  • Design tools aren't built for modern teams.
  • Design tools are single-player
  • Design tools are bulky


These create the opening for the game-changing capabilities of Figma:


New way:


  • Get a design tool built for modern design teams.
  • You can collaborate in the same files in 100% real time
  • You can edit in a web-browser with files stored in the cloud


But the problem themes (i.e. "design tools are single player") aren't enough to stop the scroll.


This is where providing real-life context and situations every designer could relate becomes so powerful.


For example:


  • Stakeholders keep sending you feedback on your designs in emails, and then you have to go and manually cross-reference them when you're making the changes in Sketch.
  • "Wait, I have that exact problem!"Ā 
    (this is what stops the scroll)


Here's the steps you can follow to achieve this for YOUR startup:


  1. start with a high level problem solved by your app
  2. break it into sub-problems that are experienced by teams
  3. use these sub-problems as content "themes"
  4. find specific examples of these themes experienced by users
  5. share these themes in your distribution channels

(i.e. organic content, ads, outbound email, etc.)


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