Allen: ROWViGOR Targets 85% to 95% Customer Retention
Kevin Allen · #18 ROWViGOR · Mar 3, 2025 · at 7:53
Kevin Allen, co-founder of ROWViGOR, responds to Charles Hudson's question about customer retention expectations for their digital fitness service on The Pitch.
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“We want to be north of 85% in terms of keeping people engaged. We think we can do better than that. We're, you know, we're looking at this in the ninety-ninety-five percent range just because of the elements that we talked about.”
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