Onboarding

A signup is not a customer yet. These cover trial funnels, onboarding emails and the first-run experience, the places where most new users quietly leave.

7 entries on this shelf, our first picks at the top

  1. How to Fix User Onboarding: 6-Step Framework with Examples from Canva, Grammarly & More

    Talk, Kate Syuma, 24 min

    Best forFounders with decent signups but weak activation who think onboarding means a product tour.

  2. Improving Your SaaS Onboarding Emails

    Episode, Mike Taber, Alli Blum

    Best forFounders with signups who never come back after day one.

  3. 3 Emails Every Early-Stage SaaS Should Be Sending

    Article, Christoph Engelhardt, 4 min read

    Best forEarly SaaS founders who want quick wins on trial conversion and involuntary churn.

  4. How Do You Learn Product? and Optimizing Your Trial Funnel (with Ruben Gamez)

    Episode, Rob Walling, Ruben Gamez, 44 min

    Best forFounders tuning a free trial that converts worse than they expected.

  5. SaaS Copywriting Secrets: 5 Mistakes Killing Your Conversions

    Talk, Lianna Patch, 45 min

    Best forTechnical founders whose homepage reads like a feature list and converts poorly.

  6. Product-Led Growth Explained: The 4 Pillars That Drive Real SaaS Growth

    Talk, Asia Orangio, 46 min

    Best forSelf-serve SaaS founders between roughly $100K and $5M ARR who want better trial conversion and retention.

  7. The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 1)

    Article, Rob Walling, 8 min read

    Best forDevelopers who would rather buy and repair a small struggling app than build from zero.