Product Management playbook/Module 5 · Metrics

Day 45 / 100 · Metrics · Activation

Find the aha moment.

Activation is the earliest action that predicts a customer will stick around. Get more people there, sooner.

How To Find It

1 · List candidate actions

First call, first voicemail, first app login, first routing rule.

2 · Compare groups

What did customers who stayed do early that leavers didn't?

3 · Set the threshold

The action, plus how many times, within how many days.

4 · Design onboarding for it

Remove every step that doesn't lead there.

Get them to value, fast.