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What a strawberry-scented squishmallow cow can teach you about churn

Published about 4 hours ago • 1 min read

SPECIAL | ALL 9 CHANGE FLAGS

Once upon a churn

A daily cleanup song. A tedious accounting task. A strawberry-scented squishmallow cow.
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Each of those hides a churn story.

Every episode of Churn Flags unpacks one Change Flag. This Special Episode gives you all nine:

Ideas from this episode you don't want to miss:

(00:00) How a scented strawberry cow turned the most helpful saleslady in town into the one standing in my way

(02:33) Why the first initiative your team names for growing NRR is probably the wrong kind

(04:55) Why your prospects understand your product better than the customers paying for it

(06:55) Which stretch of the customer lifecycle we're not "allowed" to talk in

(08:15) Why churn and expansion aren't two problems, and the 9 moments where the coin flips

(09:20) Why Cohley's ten-year customers were still submitting decade-old briefs – and why your new feature launch falls in the same trap

(11:21) How a Paperform power user found its newest product nearly six months after launch

(12:08) What a customer asking Bitly for "something like Linktree" reveals about the link shortener in everyone's head

(13:21) How a daily 4:45 cleanup song should change what Suno upsells me

(15:33) Why switching from sole proprietor to LLC is the exact moment Stripe should pitch me Sigma

(16:36) Why the most accurate support reply on the page can still end in "I left for a competitor"

(17:57) What ThriveCart emailed course creators the year everyone said "courses are dead"

(19:28) How one podcast episode kept me on Kit when I was halfway to Substack

(20:45) Why I only saw Zoom's whiteboard three years after it shipped

(21:54) What all nine flags have in common that makes them the easiest expansion work you'll do this year – no roadmap required

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