Build a More Valuable App By Adding a Little Customer Friction
An unconventional method to increase the lifetime value of your customer base
If you want real, valuable, revenue-generating customers, your app has to walk a perfectly balanced line between customer friction and data collection.
In other words, when you ask a customer to “sign up and get started,” your app needs to collect all the information you need to provide a great customer experience without the customer getting frustrated and abandoning the sign-up process altogether.
If you can find the right friction balance at the top of your customer funnel, you’ll fill that funnel with more valuable prospects.
And if you get really good at building digital products, you’ll maintain this balance in all aspects of user engagement throughout the entire customer lifecycle. You’ll foster deeper engagement, longer LTV, and ultimately, more revenue at lower CAC.
Or you can do what I did. Get sloppy. Get caught. And get hacked.
Be Careful What You Expose
In April, my app got hacked by a single bad actor, and it almost forced me to shut down my entire operation. The exposure came down to a flaw I left in the customer acquisition…
