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This book is priceless source of hands-on gained insights in analyzing and dealing with churn-related problems. The case studies are pure gold.
Don’t let your hard-won customers vanish from subscription services, taking their money with them. In Fighting Churn with Data you’ll learn powerful data-driven techniques to maximize customer retention and minimize actions that cause them to stop engaging or unsubscribe altogether. This hands-on guide is packed with techniques for converting raw data into measurable metrics, testing hypotheses, and presenting findings that are easily understandable to non-technical decision makers.
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Part 1: Building an Arsenal
1 The World of Churn
1.1 Why You are Reading this book
1.1.1 The Typical Churn Scenario
1.1.2 What this book is about
1.2 Fighting Churn
1.2.1 Interventions that reduce churn
1.2.2 Why churn is hard to fight
1.2.3 Great customer metrics: weapons in the fight against churn
1.3 Why this book is different
1.3.1 Practical and in depth
1.3.2 Simulated case study
1.4 Products with recurring user interactions
1.4.1 Paid consumer products
1.4.2 Business to business services
1.4.3 Ad supported media and apps
1.4.4 Consumer feed subscriptions
1.4.5 Freemium business models
1.4.6 In-app purchase models
1.5 Non-subscription churn scenarios
1.5.1 Inactivity as churn
1.5.2 Free trial conversion
1.5.3 Upsell/downsell
1.5.4 Other Yes/no (binary) customer predictions
1.5.5 Customer activity predictions
1.5.6 Use cases that are not like churn
1.6 Customer behavior data
1.6.1 Customer events in common product categories
1.6.2 The most important events
1.7 Case studies in fighting churn and winning
1.7.1 Klipfolio
1.7.2 Broadly
1.7.3 Versature
1.7.4 Social network simulation
1.8 Case studies in great customer metrics
1.8.1 Utilization
1.8.2 Success Rates
1.8.3 Unit cost
1.9 Summary
2 Measuring Churn
2.1 The Definition of the Churn Rate
2.1.1 Calculating The Churn Rate and Retention Rate
2.1.2 The Relationship Between the Churn Rate and Retention Rate
2.2 Subscription Databases
2.3 Basic Churn Calculation: Net Retention
2.3.1 Net Retention Calculation
2.3.2 Net Retention Calculation SQL
2.3.3 Interpreting Net Retention
2.4 Standard Account Based Churn
2.4.1 Standard Churn Rate Definition
2.4.2 Outer Joins for Churn Calculation
2.4.3 Standard Churn Calculation SQL
2.4.4 When to Use the Standard Churn Rate
2.5 Activity (Event) Based Churn for Non-Subscription products
2.5.1 Defining an Active Account and Churn from Events
2.5.2 Activity Churn Calculation SQL
2.6 Advanced Churn: Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) Churn
2.6.1 MRR Churn Definition and Calculation
2.6.2 MRR Churn Calculation SQL
2.6.3 MRR Churn versus Account Churn vs Net (Retention) Churn
2.7 Churn Rate Measurement Conversion
2.7.1 Survivor Analysis (Advanced)
2.7.2 Churn Rate Conversions
2.7.3 Converting any churn measurement window in SQL
2.7.4 Picking the Churn Measurement window
2.7.5 Seasonality and Churn Rates
2.8 Summary
3 Measuring customers
3.1 From events to metrics
3.2 Event data warehouse schema
3.3 Counting events in one time period
3.4 Details of Metric Period Definitions
3.4.1 Weekly behavioral cycles
3.4.2 Timestamps for metric measurements
3.5 Making measurements at different points in time
3.5.1 Overlapping measurement windows
3.5.2 Timing metric measurements
3.5.3 Saving metric measurements
3.5.4 Saving metrics for the simulation examples
3.6 Measuring totals and averages of event properties
3.7 Metric quality assurance
3.7.1 Testing how metrics change over time
3.7.2 Metric Quality Assurance Case Studies
3.7.3 Checking how many accounts receive metrics
3.8 Event quality assurance
3.8.1 Checking how events change over time
3.8.2 Checking events per Account
3.9 Selecting the measurement period for behavioral measurements
3.10 Measuring account tenure
3.10.1 Account tenure definition
3.10.2 Recursive common table expressions for account tenure
3.10.3 Account tenure SQL program
3.11 Measuring monthly recurring revenue (MRR) and other subscription metrics
3.11.1 Calculating MRR as a metric
3.11.2 Subscriptions for specific amounts
3.11.3 Calculating subscription unit quantities as metrics
3.11.4 Calculating the billing period as a metric
3.12 Summary
4 Observing Renewal and Churn
4.1 How to Observe Customers
4.1.1 Observation Lead Time
4.1.2 Observing Sequences of Renewals and a Churn
4.1.3 Overview of Creating A Dataset From Subscriptions
4.2 Identifying active periods From Subscriptions
4.2.1 Active periods
4.2.2 Schema for Storing active periods
4.2.3 Finding active periods that are Still Ongoing
4.2.4 Finding active periods Ending in Churn
4.3 Identifying active periods for Non-Subscription Products
4.3.1 Active period Definition
4.3.2 Process for dataset Formation From Events
4.3.3 SQL For Calculating Active Weeks
4.4 Picking Observation Dates
4.4.1 Balancing Churn and Non-Churn Observations
4.4.2 Observation Date Picking Algorithm
4.4.3 Observation Date SQL Program
4.5 Exporting a Churn Dataset
4.5.1 Dataset Creation SQL Program
4.6 Exporting the current customers for segmentation
4.6.1 Selecting active accounts and metrics
4.6.2 Segmenting customers by their metrics
4.7 Summary
Part 2: Waging the War
5 Understanding Churn and Behavior with Metrics
5.1 Metric cohort analysis
5.1.1 The idea behind cohort analysis
5.1.2 Cohort analysis In Python
5.1.3 Cohorts of product use
5.1.4 Cohorts of account tenure
5.1.5 Cohort analysis of billing period
5.1.6 Minimum cohort size
5.1.7 Significant and insignificant cohort differences
5.1.8 Metric cohorts with a majority of zero customer metrics
5.1.9 Causality: are the metrics causing churn?
5.2 Summarizing customer behavior
5.2.1 Understanding the distribution of the metrics
5.2.2 Calculating dataset summary statistics in Python
5.2.3 Screening rare metrics
5.2.4 Involving the business in data quality assurance
5.3 Scoring metrics
5.3.1 The idea behind metric scores
5.3.2 The metric score algorithm
5.3.3 Calculating metric scores in Python
5.3.4 Cohort analysis with scored metrics
5.3.5 Cohort analysis of monthly recurring revenue
5.4 Removing unwanted or invalid observations
5.4.1 Removing non-paying customers from churn analysis
5.4.2 Removing observations based on metric thresholds in Python
5.4.3 Removing zero measurements from rare metric analyses
5.4.4 Disengaging behaviors: metrics associated with increasing churn
5.5 Segmenting customers using cohort analysis
5.5.1 Segmenting process
5.5.2 Choosing segment criteria
5.6 Summary
6 Relationships between customer behaviors
6.1 Correlation between behaviors
6.1.1 Correlation between pairs of metrics
6.1.2 Investigating correlations with Python
6.1.3 Understanding correlations between sets of metrics with correlation matrices
6.1.4 Case study correlation matrices
6.1.5 Calculating correlation matrices in Python
6.2 Averaging groups of behavioral metrics
6.2.1 Why You Average Correlated Metric Scores
6.2.2 Averaging scores with a matrix of weights (loading matrix)
6.2.3 Case study loading matrices
6.2.4 Applying a loading matrix in Python
6.2.5 Churn cohort analysis on metric group average scores
6.3 Discovering groups of correlated metrics
6.3.1 Grouping metrics by clustering correlations
6.3.2 Clustering correlations in Python
6.3.3 Loading matrix weights that make the average of scores a score
6.3.4 Running the metric grouping and grouped cohort analysis listings
6.3.5 Picking the correlation threshold for clustering
6.4 Explaining correlated metric groups to the business
6.5 Summary
7 Segmenting customers with advanced metrics
Part 3: Special Weapons and Tactics
8 Forecasting churn probability
9 Accuracy and machine learning
10 Segmenting with descriptive data (Demo/Firmographics)
About the Technology
Churn is the bane of any subscription business, such as content subscriptions, software as a service, and even ad-supported freemium apps. You can improve customer retention through product changes and targeted engagement campaigns based on data-driven interventions. Data scientists and business analysts employ huge datasets of user behaviour to determine why customers leave and implement processes to stop them from doing so.About the book
Fighting Churn with Data is your guide to keeping your customers for the long haul. Chief Data Scientist at Zuora Carl S. Gold provides a clear overview of churn concepts, along with hands on tricks and tips he has developed through years of experience analyzing customer behavior. Packed with project-based examples, this book teaches you to convert raw data into measurable customer metrics, develop and test hypotheses about churn rates, and present your findings clearly to non-technical decision makers in marketing and sales. Using this book, anyone with a modest data analysis background can get churn analysis right and reap the revenue benefits of high customer retention.What's inside
- Calculate churn metrics from a subscription database
- Spot the user behavior that is most predictive of churn
- Master churn reduction tactics with customer segmentation
- Apply churn analysis techniques to other business areas
- Communicate data-based findings to non-technical stakeholders
About the author
Carl Gold is the Chief Data Scientist at Zuora, Inc, a comprehensive subscription management platform and newly public Silicon Valley “unicorn”. Zuora is widely recognized in a leader in all things pertaining to subscription and recurring revenue, with 1,000 customers across a range of industries worldwide. Carl joined Zuora in 2015 and created the predictive analytics system for Zuora’s subscriber analysis product, Zuora Insights.
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