Re: [Coworking] Who's tracking their membership churn?

2014-04-02 Thread Alex Linsker
I track churn and am fascinated in ways we might reduce it. For example, raising rates for future members only (as long as people stay members, they keep the rate they signed up at) seems to work well. Changing rates of current members up or down seems to cause severe churn. Can seasonality be

Re: [Coworking] Who's tracking their membership churn?

2014-04-01 Thread rachel young
We've tracked member usage since almost day 1, which was 4yrs ago, so we can see how long a member has been here, when their anniversary date is, and what their usage patterns are. including when they change membership levels and to what level when. We also track when a person came in for a tour so

Re: [Coworking] Who's tracking their membership churn?

2014-04-01 Thread Glen Ferguson
I recently started calculating average monthly recurring revenue, average member lifetime, average lifetime of past members, member lifetime value, % renewal rates (which is the opposite of churn, but its a more emotionally positive metric) and cost to acquire new members. How? A lot of sweat and

Re: [Coworking] Who's tracking their membership churn?

2014-04-01 Thread Jacob Sayles
Fun stuff! Yes, we track this stuff in Nadine and have some staff facing stats pages that show us some basic data. I'd love to dive deeper and I'm always trying to recruit data nerds that want to help develop new views into our historical data. One page we have now lists how long everyone has be

[Coworking] Who's tracking their membership churn?

2014-04-01 Thread Alex Hillman
As the business aphorism goes, it's a lot easier to keep an existing customer than it is to get a new one. I know there are a variety of systems out there that people are using, I'm wondering if anyone is actively keeping track of things like churn and member lifetime value? I know that most peop