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Win-back

Some of the people who left will come back. Most will not.

Win-back is the easiest campaign to run badly: send everyone a discount, count the returns, ignore the ones who would have come back on their own. Tenure treats it like every other decision here — targeted, capped and measured against a control.

Asked · 16

Left for a reason that has since changed, on a plan that still fits, inside the window where returns happen.

Held back · 10

Worth asking, deliberately not asked. Some of them return anyway, and that is the number a campaign has to beat.

Left alone · 74

Chronic discount-seekers, people who churned in their first month, anyone already asked this quarter.

A hundred people who cancelled. An illustration of the shape, not a customer cohort.

Who is actually worth asking

A former subscriber is not a lead, and treating them like one is how you get unsubscribes.

  • Segments built from why they left, how long they stayed and what they were paying
  • Excludes the people your own data says will not return
  • Timing rules, so the ask lands when it might land well
  • Frequency caps, so nobody is asked twice in a quarter

Measured like everything else

Including the part most tools leave out: the people who would have returned anyway.

  • A control group on win-back campaigns, not just on the cancel flow
  • Return rate reported net of the control group
  • Offer cost tracked against the revenue the return actually produced
  • Whether returned subscribers stay, or churn again within a cycle

Ask the right ones, and only once.

Win-back runs with its own control group, so a return is not counted twice.