The Hustle achieved a 98% completion rate on 30-question onboarding surveys
Sam Parr · Brainstorming Million Dollar Ideas with Elaine Zelby | My First Million Ep. #175 · Apr 26, 2021 · at 46:25
Sam Parr shares user onboarding data from his newsletter company, The Hustle, during a discussion about quiz completion rates.
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“For the hustle, we get like 10,000 sign-ups a day, and we would ask them a question after they sign up, and we would do like, I would put two questions in, and then inevitably everyone at the company was like, Oh, that's already too many. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. Put five, and we put five, and then we put 10, and eventually we had like 30 questions, and it had like a 98% completion rate.”
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