Sept. 11, 2025, 9 a.m.

What are the first principles in onboarding?

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When you’re onboarding new customers, you obviously want them to complete whatever steps you’re asking – but you also probably want them to feel like they have some amount of agency. This can happen for a variety of reasons:

  • Your customer base exists at a variety of experience levels, and one of those is “just show me the stupid product”

  • People might not be ready to provide the information that you want or need them to enter

  • There may be many different routes into your product, with onboarding less linear or direct

  • Customers behave in all sorts of unexpected ways that might surprise the team; towards this end, a strict onboarding process might be too constraining or even unnecessary

So in this paid lesson, we’ll go deep on how to make your onboarding short and skippable – and what you need to do to make sure your customers are signing up in a way that’s helpful to them and diplomatic for you.

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