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All SaaS teams influence the customer experience<\/a> in some way. Product teams shape what users see inside the app, marketing drives engagement across channels, customer success supports adoption, and sales helps customers realise value. The challenge is making all of those interactions feel like part of the same journey.<\/p>\n

When they don’t, customers notice: 62% say they’ll lose loyalty<\/a> to a brand if experiences aren’t personalised, and more than half feel like they’re interacting with completely separate departments. On the other hand, companies that align teams around the customer experience grow 19% faster and are 15% more profitable<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In this guide, I’ll share a five-step product lifecycle marketing framework for aligning teams around the customer journey, moving users from activation to advocacy, and operationalizing the process with Userpilot Workflows.
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First things first: What does product lifecycle marketing mean in SaaS?<\/h2>\n

The exact definition of product marketing has undergone a few revisions. The classic one is Kotler’s model that reflects the product’s life in the market, including phases such as introduction, growth, maturity, and decline. That view is useful for high-level positioning and resource allocation, and you can find the four stages explained in any standard product marketing reference.<\/p>\n

The second is the customer’s lifecycle inside the product, the path a user takes through activation, adoption, expansion, advocacy, and retention. Awareness, consideration, conversion, retention, and advocacy are the customer-journey stages that sit alongside it. Since this framing is more relevant to PLG-led SaaS, this is what I structured this guide around.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udca1 Read related blog posts:<\/strong> Customer churn in the era of AI products: Easy to use, easy to cancel?<\/a><\/div>\n

The 5 steps to build a unified product marketing strategy<\/h2>\n

Everything above is the why. The rest of this guide is the how, broken into the five steps I work through whenever I set up product lifecycle marketing for a new stage of the business. None of them is complicated on their own, and the value comes from running them in order and as a team.<\/p>\n

Customer experience is a team game<\/h3>\n

Start with the customer experience itself, which, inside a SaaS product, shows up in three layers.<\/p>\n