7 Ways to Take Control of Churn in Q1


Churn is coming, and it’s going to be bad. You don’t lack urgency—you feel it already. The challenge is knowing what to do.

Churn feels like it’s controlling you, but it doesn’t have to. Let’s flip the script and put you in control of churn.

Over the next week and a half, I’ll share 7 specific actions you can take right now to regain control and stabilize Q1.

Each is a practical step designed to help you secure renewals, turn the tide, and protect your revenue.

In the "Save Customers in Q1" workshop on Jan-15 (16 in Australia), we’ll dive deeper into each step, providing scripts, tools, and techniques you can implement immediately.

But here’s a quick preview of the seven ideas we’ll cover:

  1. Urgent but Unspoken Save Tactics
  2. Save the Right Customers; Ignore others
  3. Decide When to Contact, If at All
  4. Use Time Scarcity to Stop Churn
  5. Short-Term Behavioral Engineering
  6. Run Effective Save Meetings
  7. Offer Concessions not Just Discounts

Stay tuned for tomorrow’s email, where we'll start strong (and controversial) as we dive directly into the first step: Urgent but Unspoken Save Tactics.

~ Lincoln

BTW: We're doing two sessions on Jan-15 (Jan-16 in Australia) that cover most time zones. So you don't have an excuse to not join live.

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Lincoln Murphy

I help SaaS companies Maximize LTV through Customer-centric Upselling

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