SOLUTION · BY FUNCTION

Sign-ups that
convert.

PLG funnels don't fail at traffic — they fail between sign-up and habit. We point SEO at activation intent, join in-product journey data to search data, and make the pricing page earn the traffic it already gets.

2.9xActivation-intent traffic
38%Sign-up → PQL lift
96%Renewal rate
/ PROFILE

Who this is for

Model
Free trial / freemium
ARR
$5M–$200M
Team
Growth + product mktg
Motion
Self-serve + sales assist
/ THE CHALLENGES

Traffic isn't the problem

01

Traffic is up, activation is flat

The blog ranks, sign-ups trickle in, and almost none reach the aha moment. Content built for readers produces readers. Nobody wrote for the person about to become a user.

02

Search data and product data never meet

You can't see which keywords produce users who activate, retain, and pay. So content strategy optimizes for traffic — the one metric that provably doesn't pay the bills.

03

The pricing page leaks

It's the highest-intent page on the site and it hasn't been tested in quarters. Every point of conversion left on that page is the most expensive traffic you'll ever waste.

04

Sales-assist can't find the PQLs

Usage signals that scream "ready to buy" — seats added, limits hit, integrations connected — never reach the CRM. Sales works a list of sign-ups instead of a list of buyers.

/ THE PLAYBOOK

How we run it

01
Phase 01 · Weeks 1–8

SEO for activation intent

Enterprise SEO re-targeted at jobs-to-be-done queries — templates, integrations, "how to X" — and Programmatic SEO for the long tail of use cases. Pages built to produce users, not readers: every one lands in product, not on a newsletter form.

02
Phase 02 · Weeks 4–10

Join product data to search data

Analytics & Attribution connects keyword → sign-up → activation → revenue in one model, on server-side tagging. Now you know which queries produce paying users, and the content roadmap stops guessing.

03
Phase 03 · Weeks 6–16

Pricing-page CRO

CRO & Web puts the pricing page and sign-up flow on a weekly test-and-ship cadence: plan framing, trial mechanics, friction audit of every field. This is routinely the fastest payback in the entire program.

04
Phase 04 · Ongoing

Scale what activates

Paid Search budget steered by activation-per-keyword instead of cost-per-signup, and Marketing Operations routing PQL signals into the CRM so sales-assist calls buyers, not sign-ups. Reviewed at a quarterly QBR against the activation forecast.

/ PROOF

What it looks like

All case studies
DevTools · Freemium · Self-serve + sales assist

"MMIO was the first partner who optimized for activated users instead of traffic. Sign-up quality changed within a quarter — and the pricing-page tests paid for the whole engagement."

0%
Activated sign-up growth
0%
Pricing-page conversion lift
0
Days to first shipped test
/ FAQ

PLG questions

Because it ranks for reader intent, not user intent. "What is X" traffic reads and leaves; "how to do X with a tool like yours" traffic signs up and activates. We rebuild the keyword map around activation queries and route every page into product. Traffic may stay flat for a quarter — activated sign-ups won't.
If any revenue comes from a sales-assist motion, yes — that's where the money hides. PLG companies typically see 10x deal sizes on accounts where sales engages at the right usage signal. The wiring is a few weeks of work and usually the highest-leverage fix after the pricing page.
A Sprint from $24k/project is a common entry point — pricing-page CRO or an activation-intent audit with the keyword-to-revenue model. The full program runs on Engine from $48k/month, our most-chosen plan. Embedded (custom) for growth teams that want operators in the room. Details on the pricing page.
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