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Dale HarrisonB2B Marketing Strategist

Customer Onboarding: Strategies for Success and Long-Term Loyalty

September 18, 2024
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Dale Harrison, a B2B marketing strategist, discusses how effective customer onboarding is crucial for reducing churn and fostering long-term loyalty, likening it to the dating process. He highlights common mistakes companies make, such as product blindness and treating onboarding with disdain, and emphasizes the need for an external perspective to identify and fix fundamental UX flaws. Harrison also critiques traditional churn analysis, advocating for cohort survival rates and the strategic acquisition of customers with inherently longer lifespans to improve long-term retention.

In This Episode

0:00The critical role of customer onboarding
0:33Onboarding as dating: building trust and relationships
2:12Biggest mistakes companies make in onboarding
10:13Product blindness and the need for external perspective
17:40Non-negotiable steps for successful onboarding
22:54Addressing fundamental UX flaws in product design
27:38Why marketing can't fix a bad onboarding experience
30:51Flawed churn analysis and cohort survival rates
36:37The stable nature of customer churn halflife
40:20Minimizing churn by choosing better customers

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