Onboarding

Explore 10 proven onboarding growth tactics with real examples and step-by-step ideas you can apply to grow your online business.

Discover actionable strategies, playbooks, and experiments for onboarding across acquisition, activation, retention and revenue. No fluff—just practical tactics that work.

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Aha!

Aha! Moment

Show the value of your product as soon as possible

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Artificial Advancement

Motivate users by giving them a head-start

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Easter Eggs

Increase word-of-mouth by hiding easter eggs

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What are you looking for?

Knowledge base

Write a message

Increase Support Requests

Convert more free trial users by increasing help requests

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Invite 7 Friends
Steve H.

Invite

Eleven

Invite

John C.

Invite

Shyam

Invite

Key Activation Metric

Find your key activation metric & double down on it

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Onboarding Checklist

Show users' progress during onboarding

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Free Trial Length
Get started

14-days free trial

No credit card required
Get started

7-days free trial

No credit card required

Shorten Free Trial

Increase conversion by decreasing trial length

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Marie Joe

Viral Loops becamse too expensive, do you know good alternatives?

Pierre Pal

Hi! Marie, I'm the founder of ReferList, we built a tool to help..

Steal Competitors Customers

Find your competitors' users and poach them

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Use Product Shots

Give previews of your product

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We're sorry to see you go!

Reason
What should we improve?
Delete account

User Offboarding

Turn churn into opportunities to learn

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