Adam Robinson (founder of Retention.com and RB2B) and Nathan Latka discuss scaling playbooks and compare ClickFunnels' community model against Leadpages' churn issues.
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“He was able to grow that business, which was not that dissimilar from Leadpages to, like, several hundred million Leadpages, because of churn, stalled out at 17.”
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