A quiet week in the support queue feels like a healthy customer base. It usually isn't. A queue sorts the people who raised a hand, so it can only ever show you the customers still bothering to complain. The account that argued with you every week and has said nothing in 90 days never shows up. That drop is the signal, and here is how to pull the list.

Aug 13, 2026 Read more →

Strategy 9 min read

How Long Should Your Free Trial Be? Start With Time to Value

Everyone argues about 7 versus 14 versus 30 days. It's the wrong argument. Trial length is downstream of one number: how long it takes someone to hit the moment your product clicks. Get that number, add a buffer for the decision, and your trial length falls out of it.

Aug 6, 2026 Read more →

Retention 9 min read

The One Screen Before Cancel That Saves 10-15% of Churn

Most SaaS teams treat the cancel click as the end. It is actually the one moment you have a leaving customer's full attention, and a plain "Are you sure?" popup throws it away. Here is the screen that goes in front of the button, and how to match every cancellation reason to an offer that actually lands.

Aug 4, 2026 Read more →

Retention 8 min read

B2C Churn Isn't a Product Problem. It's a Front Door Problem.

When B2C churn is high, everyone reaches for the roadmap. But most B2C churn is decided at the front door: who you let in and what you promised them. Here is how to tell a front door leak from a real product leak, and why shipping features won't help if the wrong people keep walking in.

Aug 2, 2026 Read more →

Strategy 10 min read

How to Keep Traffic Flowing After a Product Hunt Launch

A Product Hunt launch is a spike, not a heartbeat. Here is how to keep traffic and attention after the spike, using Tony Fadell's momentum framework, and the one move that stops your launch audience from evaporating.

Jul 26, 2026 Read more →

Strategy 10 min read

When Should You Fire Your Customer Success Platform? (2026)

Most teams keep an expensive CS platform their team barely opens, or rip out one that was actually working. Here is an honest keep, renegotiate, or replace framework, a value scorer, and how to switch without dropping renewals.

Jul 25, 2026 Read more →

Retention 3 min read

Churn Is an Offer Problem, Not a Price Problem

Lowering your price won't fix churn. Churn is an offer problem: raise value for the customers who actually fit and you can raise your price and cut churn at the same time.

Jul 24, 2026 Read more →

Strategy 10 min read

Retention Loops Explained for SMB SaaS (2026)

Growth loops beat funnels because they compound. Here is what a retention loop is, the anatomy of one, and how a small SaaS team builds its first one, with a calculator for how much it actually compounds.

Jul 23, 2026 Read more →

Strategy 9 min read

Should You Offer a Money-Back Guarantee? (2026)

A money-back guarantee is a conversion tool, not a retention one, and the refund math almost always works out. Here is when to offer one, when to skip it, and a calculator for the net revenue impact.

Jul 22, 2026 Read more →

Retention 6 min read

How to Fix Voluntary Churn (It's Really 3 Problems)

The cancel button isn't where you lost them. You lost them weeks earlier. Voluntary churn is three separate problems that happen at three different times, and not one of them gets fixed by a save flow at the door.

Jul 20, 2026 Read more →

Strategy 3 min read

Every Churn Tool Says It Works. None Show You What Actually Worked.

Every churn tool claims it works. Almost none tell you what actually worked, for which product, which ICP, which situation. Because what saves one customer does not save another. So I built that in.

Jul 19, 2026 Read more →

Strategy 3 min read

I Changed One Word on a Button and Conversions Went Up 20%

From "could you try it" to "would you try it." One word. Conversions up 20%. You cannot brainstorm that result and you cannot one-shot it from an LLM. You can only find it by testing.

Jul 18, 2026 Read more →

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