20Growth: How to Use Influencers to Scale Growth Insanely Fast | How to Optimise User Onboaring for Growth | How the Best Growth Teams Create Organic Growth and Community | Why LTV/CAC Models are BS with Ketty Slonimsky
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Key Takeaways
- ✓Web Onboarding Economics: Palta drives 80% of new subscribers through web funnels instead of app stores, avoiding Apple's 30% cut while achieving higher retention through credit card payments and ability to charge premium pricing compared to mobile-first acquisition strategies.
- ✓Creative Volume Strategy: Successful paid acquisition on TikTok requires launching 1,000 creative variations weekly (70% permutations of winning concepts, 30% new formats), with TikTok needing 3x more creatives than Meta to achieve comparable performance and scale effectively.
- ✓Multiple Subscription Revenue: Companies should implement second and third subscription offerings embedded in the product (like body scanners or partner modes) which add approximately 20% to lifetime value, with first subscription covering customer acquisition costs and additional tiers driving profit.
- ✓Early Stage Unit Economics: Test new products with paid acquisition at 3-5k daily spend targeting 140-180% ROAS with three-month payback periods, using existing portfolio LTV models to estimate viability before twelve-month cohort data becomes available for validation.
- ✓Activation Over Acquisition: Users forget what features they purchased within premium subscriptions, requiring deliberate activation sequences post-purchase to demonstrate value and reduce churn, rather than focusing solely on acquisition efficiency or cancellation reduction tactics without addressing the gap between.
What It Covers
Ketty Slonimsky, Chief Growth Officer at Palta (builder of Flow, Simple, Xyng), reveals how to scale consumer subscription apps through web onboarding funnels, creative testing at volume, and building multiple revenue streams beyond single subscriptions.
Key Questions Answered
- •Web Onboarding Economics: Palta drives 80% of new subscribers through web funnels instead of app stores, avoiding Apple's 30% cut while achieving higher retention through credit card payments and ability to charge premium pricing compared to mobile-first acquisition strategies.
- •Creative Volume Strategy: Successful paid acquisition on TikTok requires launching 1,000 creative variations weekly (70% permutations of winning concepts, 30% new formats), with TikTok needing 3x more creatives than Meta to achieve comparable performance and scale effectively.
- •Multiple Subscription Revenue: Companies should implement second and third subscription offerings embedded in the product (like body scanners or partner modes) which add approximately 20% to lifetime value, with first subscription covering customer acquisition costs and additional tiers driving profit.
- •Early Stage Unit Economics: Test new products with paid acquisition at 3-5k daily spend targeting 140-180% ROAS with three-month payback periods, using existing portfolio LTV models to estimate viability before twelve-month cohort data becomes available for validation.
- •Activation Over Acquisition: Users forget what features they purchased within premium subscriptions, requiring deliberate activation sequences post-purchase to demonstrate value and reduce churn, rather than focusing solely on acquisition efficiency or cancellation reduction tactics without addressing the gap between.
Notable Moment
Palta killed WeatherWell despite strong retention because the migraine-focused product served too narrow a segment to reach 100 million revenue, demonstrating how portfolio companies get compared against Flow's 75 million MAU benchmark regardless of individual profitability or efficiency metrics.
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