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Sean Ellis
CEO GrowthHackers
UNLOCKING ADVOCACY WITH EFFECTIVE
CUSTOMER ONBOARDING
Overview
• How user experience drives advocacy
• How optimizing onboarding unlocks advocacy
• Overcoming organizational inertia for growth
Who Advocates?
ü Have a great experience
ü Remain active customer
ü Proud of association
USE AN IMAGE,
ICON(s), ANIMATED
GIF, VIDEO
Gateway to Advocacy is Onboarding
Goal: Deliver a great experience – quickly
“Invest 50% of your product development
resources into new customer onboarding”
James Currier
Managing Partner at NFX Guild
LogMeIn Example
Goal: Fix ROI issues & broken onboarding
• Presented data case to CEO
• CEO drove undivided focus on onboarding
Result: Hockey stick growth
• $1M+/month spending with positive ROI
• 80% of new users via word of mouth
$6B Company
Dropbox Example
Goal: Eliminate external growth dependencies
• Obsessive about optimizing onboarding
• Implemented incentivized referrals
• Built early cross-functional growth culture
Result: 100% of new users via referral
Growth Process to Improve Onboarding
• Analyze to understand onboarding issues
• Ideas to improve onboarding
• Prioritize top scoring ideas to test first
• Test to impact onboarding objective
• Repeat (analyze for impact)
More Testing – Faster Improvement
• Set weekly test launch target
• Fix what prevents testing
• Add resources to improve throughput
Challenge: Organizational Inertia
• Marketing drives visits or signups
• Product builds great core experience
• No one focuses on first user experience
Marketing
Product	/	
Engineering
Onboarding	
(no	man’s	land)
Breaking through Organizational Inertia
• Executive offsite to break through inertia
• Define team’s mission based on impact
• Measure impact with a North Star Metric
• Define who and how to optimize onboarding
Request recommended agenda for offsite
sellis@growthhackers.com
North Star Metric
• Reflects expansion of value delivered to all
customers
• Provides lens for measuring growth
• Every winning experiment improves North
Star Metric
Experience Drives Advocacy
Facebook
Core benefit: See friends’ updates
NSM: Grow Daily Active Users (DAU)
AHA Moment: 7 friends in 10 days
Advocacy: To enhance great experience
3 Key TakeAways
• Advocacy key to sustainable growth
• Experience drives advocacy
• Obsessively optimize onboarding

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Unlocking Advocacy With Effective Customer Onboarding

  • 1. Sean Ellis CEO GrowthHackers UNLOCKING ADVOCACY WITH EFFECTIVE CUSTOMER ONBOARDING
  • 2. Overview • How user experience drives advocacy • How optimizing onboarding unlocks advocacy • Overcoming organizational inertia for growth
  • 3. Who Advocates? ü Have a great experience ü Remain active customer ü Proud of association USE AN IMAGE, ICON(s), ANIMATED GIF, VIDEO
  • 4. Gateway to Advocacy is Onboarding Goal: Deliver a great experience – quickly “Invest 50% of your product development resources into new customer onboarding” James Currier Managing Partner at NFX Guild
  • 5. LogMeIn Example Goal: Fix ROI issues & broken onboarding • Presented data case to CEO • CEO drove undivided focus on onboarding Result: Hockey stick growth • $1M+/month spending with positive ROI • 80% of new users via word of mouth $6B Company
  • 6. Dropbox Example Goal: Eliminate external growth dependencies • Obsessive about optimizing onboarding • Implemented incentivized referrals • Built early cross-functional growth culture Result: 100% of new users via referral
  • 7. Growth Process to Improve Onboarding • Analyze to understand onboarding issues • Ideas to improve onboarding • Prioritize top scoring ideas to test first • Test to impact onboarding objective • Repeat (analyze for impact)
  • 8. More Testing – Faster Improvement • Set weekly test launch target • Fix what prevents testing • Add resources to improve throughput
  • 9. Challenge: Organizational Inertia • Marketing drives visits or signups • Product builds great core experience • No one focuses on first user experience Marketing Product / Engineering Onboarding (no man’s land)
  • 10. Breaking through Organizational Inertia • Executive offsite to break through inertia • Define team’s mission based on impact • Measure impact with a North Star Metric • Define who and how to optimize onboarding Request recommended agenda for offsite sellis@growthhackers.com
  • 11. North Star Metric • Reflects expansion of value delivered to all customers • Provides lens for measuring growth • Every winning experiment improves North Star Metric
  • 12. Experience Drives Advocacy Facebook Core benefit: See friends’ updates NSM: Grow Daily Active Users (DAU) AHA Moment: 7 friends in 10 days Advocacy: To enhance great experience
  • 13. 3 Key TakeAways • Advocacy key to sustainable growth • Experience drives advocacy • Obsessively optimize onboarding