An honest re-choice at renewal

• Diagnostic question

  How customers pay

  revenue model question

  Finds the revenue model, which decides whether paying should wait for a habit or is itself the value event.

• Diagnostic question

  Weekly sign-ups or orders

  traffic volume question

  Sizes the traffic at the step that matters, which decides whether a standard A/B test can read in time or small-sample designs apply.

• Diagnostic question

  The key action at each stage

  desired actions question

  Names the one action wanted from users at each lifecycle stage, so every lens rates the right behavior.

• Diagnostic question

  Runway and revenue priority

  cash mode question

  Checks runway and whether revenue is the top metric, which can make paying co-binding with the main constraint.

• Diagnostic question

  Quick scan: the work users put in

  investment quick scan

  The fifth of Hooked's five fundamental questions, used as the default quick scan of the investment link.

• Diagnostic question

  User quick ratio

  growth accounting question

  Computes new plus resurrected over churned users for the last 28 days, and how long it has been below 1.

Sources

• Influence · Robert Cialdini

  Ch.3 · Ch.3, p.79

Source IDs: INF-Q-056 · INF-T-CC-31

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