Been running a bootstrapped ed-tech B2C SaaS startup since January 2023, started charging in April. We’ve been growing in revenue around 9-15% MoM but our churn is ridiculous, it’s around 21% and has been flat there for around 2 months (was previously 30-25%). Our growth in other metrics is great, we’ll hit $10k MRR this month but that churn number frightens me and I don’t know what I can do about it.
We are a freemium site and around 2% of our users are returning users (this lines up pretty much exactly with our conversion rate from free to paid accounts). Currently have around 125k users total, of which around 4k have paid for something and 1.7k have active subscriptions.
That high churn means you’re not meeting customer expectations. Talk to the customers who stayed and those that didn’t
Recovering churned clients is on of the most cost effective customer acquisition channels you can find.
I don’t think you’re doing so well since 21% MOM means people are cancelling after they figure out you expectations are met and those that stayed probably just forgot to remove the subscription since in 5 months they’re all gone