

CHURN FM
Andrew Michael
CHURN FM is the podcast for subscription economy pros. Every Wednesday we hear how the world’s fastest growing companies are tackling churn and using retention & engagement to fuel their growth.
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May 8, 2019 • 46min
EP8 | Shaun Clowes (Metromile) - Retention and engagement lessons learned building Atlassian’s growth team from 0 to 50 people strong 💪
In today’s episode, I chatted to Shaun Clowes, the Chief Product Officer at Metromile and previous Head of Growth at Atlassian.We talked about how Atlassian measured success in the early days and their relentless focus on delivering value. We also touched on why enterprise users are more similar to their SMB counterparts than you think, Atlassian’s land and grab strategy that fueled their expansion revenue and the differences in tackling churn between B2B and B2C companies.This was one of my favorite interviews to date, I hope you enjoy the show.Churn FM is sponsored by Vitally, the all-in-one Customer Success Platform.

May 1, 2019 • 43min
EP7 | Pulkit Agrawal (Chameleon) - How to build a churn busting user onboarding experience
On the show today we welcome Pulkit Agrawal, Co-founder & CEO at Chameleon, a platform that helps companies build user onboarding without writing a line code. Tune in as we discuss why you should care about your user onboarding experience, its relationship to churn and retention, and user onboarding tests you can run in your business.Churn FM is sponsored by Vitally, the all-in-one Customer Success Platform.

Apr 24, 2019 • 41min
EP6 | Nir Eyal (Hooked) - Frequency is the key to building habits into your product
In this episode, I share the mic with Nir Eyal, author of the best-selling book Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. Listen in as Nir explains the Hook Model, the role of frequency and why frequency is the number one reason your product is not going to become a habit, the ethical way to build habit-forming products, and his new book Indistractable. Churn FM is sponsored by Vitally, the all-in-one Customer Success Platform.

Apr 17, 2019 • 1h 5min
EP5 | Heidi Gibson (GoDaddy) - GoDaddy's magic metric for crushing churn
Today on CHURN.FM we have Heidi Gibson with us. Heidi is a Senior Director of Product Management at GoDaddy. Heidi was tasked with building a cross-functional growth team of product and marketing, focused on acquisition, retention, and engagement over the last 3 years at GoDaddy. Tune in as Heidi explains how they measure retention across their different products, their magic metric to success, how they use support as a secret weapon, and how GoDaddy is transitioning themselves from a commodity service company to a software as a service business.Churn FM is sponsored by Vitally, the all-in-one Customer Success Platform.

Apr 10, 2019 • 45min
EP4 | Pedro Magrico (Typeform) - Integrations are sticky
Today on CHURN.FM we’re featuring Pedro Magriço. Pedro was previously the Director of Product Growth at Typeform. In this episode, Pedro shares what he learned working at Typeform over the last 5 years.We dive into the experiments they tried to reduce churn, their success with integrations, how to A/B test pricing and much more.Churn FM is sponsored by Vitally, the all-in-one Customer Success Platform.

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Apr 3, 2019 • 43min
EP3 | Janna Bastow (ProdPad) - Value-based pricing for the win
Janna Bastow is the Founder and CEO of ProdPad. On CHURN.FM today she shares their unique approach to gamifying onboarding and how experimenting with value-based pricing helped them cross over the magic threshold to negative churn.Churn FM is sponsored by Vitally, the all-in-one Customer Success Platform.

Mar 31, 2019 • 47min
EP2 | Savvas Zortikis (Viral Loops) - Winning with customer success
Today on CHURN.FM our guest is Savvas Zortikis, the CEO & Founder of Viral Loops. Savvas talks about the importance of customer success at the very early stage and how they go about tackling churn and retention as a team.Churn FM is sponsored by Vitally, the all-in-one Customer Success Platform.

Mar 31, 2019 • 37min
EP1 | Brian Balfour (Reforge) - Churn is the silent killer
Brian Balfour is the founder and CEO of Reforge, previously VP of Growth at HubSpot. Today on CHURN.FM we discussed his thoughts on why retention is the one metric that rules them all, why churn is the silent killer, and what metrics you should be tracking.Churn FM is sponsored by Vitally, the all-in-one Customer Success Platform.

Mar 31, 2019 • 2min
EP0 | Andrew Michael (Churn.fm) - Intro
CHURN.FM is the podcast for subscription economy pros. Every Wednesday we hear how the world’s fastest growing companies are tackling churn and using retention & engagement to fuel their growth.


