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Customer Retention: Reduce Churn and Improve Renewals
2 students

Customer Retention: Reduce Churn and Improve Renewals

Investigate churn patterns, improve onboarding and plan retention actions around customer evidence and renewal risks.
Created byDr. Law Payne
Last updated 11/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • Compare churn and retention across customer cohorts.
  • Identify onboarding barriers and early signals of renewal risk.
  • Prioritise a retention action against practical constraints.
  • Build a measurement plan for testing a retention action.

Course content

2 sections • 10 lectures • 1h 50m total length
  • The Decision and the First Useful Result10:50

    Define a retention cohort and calculate 90-day retention with clear starting and churn events. Use the downloadable worksheet to apply the lesson to the case.

  • Cohorts in Practice11:23

    Compare onboarding routes and calculate retention using a common mix of accounts. Use the downloadable worksheet to apply the lesson to the case.

  • Signals and the Evidence Behind It11:10

    Calculate precision and coverage for churn signals and compare the workload of two rules. Use the downloadable worksheet to apply the lesson to the case.

  • Onboarding Without Hidden Assumptions11:14

    Map the path to a first usable review and assign owners to onboarding dependencies. Use the downloadable worksheet to apply the lesson to the case.

  • The Foundation Case and Your First Deliverable11:09

    Use cohort evidence to choose a bounded retention intervention with a capacity limit. Use the downloadable worksheet to apply the lesson to the case.

Requirements

  • No specialist qualification or paid software is required. Bring a suitable work example or use the course case exercises.

Description

This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.


You worked hard to win the customer. They stopped using the service months before they declined to renew. What would you have needed to see earlier?


I’m Dr. Law Payne. My bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Marketing shapes how I approach these decisions. I designed this course for marketers, customer success professionals, founders and business owners who want to make a practical recommendation they can explain to a team.


Across ten lectures in two sections, you’ll learn to read churn by cohort, investigate onboarding and test a retention action. In the foundations section, you’ll work through the evidence behind the first decision. The applied section gives you a second case with a different constraint, so you can see where the same reasoning holds and where the decision needs to change.


I designed the case exercises to give you a decision to make before you see the worked reasoning. In the final workshop, you’ll put the work together into a churn diagnosis and a retention action with a measurement plan Write down which evidence supports your recommendation, where your assumptions might be wrong, and what you would check before acting.


Bring one decision you’re responsible for at work. Start with the first lecture, then use the case and workshop to practise explaining your recommendation in plain language. Enroll if you want a way to take the next decision from an open discussion to a concrete plan you can share with your team.

Who this course is for:

  • Marketers, customer success professionals, founders and business owners