Showcase Your Product’s Value In 7 Minutes or Less
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May 29, 2025
Wes dives into creating seamless onboarding experiences that highlight product value in under seven minutes. He introduces the Bowling Alley Framework, which maps a clear path from sign-up to success. Learn how to streamline onboarding by eliminating unnecessary steps and employing strategic bumpers, like tooltips and progress bars. Profiling questions add a touch of personalization, while conversational bumpers keep users engaged even after they drop off. This method boosts retention and increases the chances of upgrades.
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Effortless Onboarding Drives Retention
Most users drop off early because onboarding creates friction and they never see product value.
An effortless onboarding experience drastically increases the chances users will return and upgrade.
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Use Bowling Alley Framework
Deploy the Bowling Alley framework to create an effortless onboarding journey that boosts user value realization.
Simplifying the onboarding path can increase revenue without extra marketing costs.
question_answer ANECDOTE
Canva's Targeted Onboarding Example
Canva tailored onboarding by letting users quickly start creating posters based on their goals.
This personalization cut their time to product value by half, improving user success.
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This book provides a detailed, practical guide to crafting the perfect user onboarding experience. It introduces the EUREKA framework, which includes six steps: Establish your onboarding team, Understand your users' desired outcomes, Refine your onboarding success criteria, Evaluate and optimize your onboarding path, Keep new users engaged, and Apply changes and repeat. The book emphasizes the importance of starting onboarding from the acquisition phase, minimizing the time to value perception, and using behavior-based communication methods. It also references the BJ Fogg Behavioural Model and highlights key onboarding milestones such as Value Perception, Value Experience, and Value Adoption[2][3][5].
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Wes Bush
In today’s episode, Wes explores creating a frictionless onboarding experience to showcase a product’s value in under seven minutes. He introduces the Bowling Alley Framework, a strategy to direct users quickly to the value of a product by mapping out the shortest path—from sign-up to success. Wes explains that effective onboarding should eliminate unnecessary steps, label essential ones, and set up “bumpers” to guide users back if they stray. Product bumpers, like tooltips and progress bars, keep users on track, while conversational bumpers, such as emails and support messages, re-engage users who have dropped off. This combined approach helps retain new users and boosts their likelihood to upgrade.
Key Highlights:
00:44: Importance of an effortless experience for retention.
02:09: Overview of the Bowling Alley Framework.
04:36: Building a straight line for users to see value.
10:08: Adding profiling questions to personalize the user journey.
14:28: How to streamline onboarding and reduce the number of steps
19:05: Role of product and conversational bumpers to re-engage users
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