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Winning Back Churned Users

Reactivation campaigns.

Why Win-Back Matters

A churned user already understood your value once, so reactivating them is usually cheaper than acquiring a stranger. Win-back is the resurrection stage of the lifecycle.

But not every churned user is worth chasing. The skill is identifying who is recoverable and matching the right intervention to the right reason for leaving.

Define Churn Precisely

Churn means different things for different products. For subscriptions it is a cancelled plan; for usage products it is a dormancy threshold beyond a user's normal rhythm.

Set the threshold from real data: the inactivity window after which return becomes statistically unlikely.

Subscription churn:
  status == cancelled OR payment failed

Usage / engagement churn:
  days_since_last_active > 2x typical interval
  e.g. daily app -> 14 days = churned
       weekly app -> 30 days = churned

All lessons in this course

  1. The Lifecycle Framework
  2. Onboarding for Retention
  3. Winning Back Churned Users
  4. Loyalty and Referrals
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