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Jun 27Liked by Elena Verna

Love those layer cake charts, really drives the point home.

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This is so great, thank you. Finally someone articulated this. It's exactly why the marketing term should also prioritize customer marketing - not slough it off to a CX team. My last company failed to do this and the churn is pretty bad. Marketing can never drive enough new business to succeed with a leaky boat.

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I love this! Small improvements in churn can lead to significant revenue gains, far outweighing the benefits of marginal increases in conversion rates. The layered cake analogy nails this.

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Great post. Interestingly I’ve always heard that it was “Net Revenue Retention” rather than “Net Dollar Retention” - wondering if those are the same thing?

Also, at Eventbrite when we IPOed we indeed had the “layer cake” chart - but we referred to it as “Rainbow Mountain” lol.

Great stuff

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NRR and NDR are interchangeable. But RAINBOW MOUNTAIN??? I've never heard of that, but I LOVE IT.

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