I read every onboarding book worth reading.
Nir Eyal's Hooked, Donna Webber's "Onboarding Matters," Ramli John's "EUREKA," Wes Bush's "Product-Led Onboarding," Samuel Hulick's "The Elements of User Onboarding," and many more.
Plus my 20 years of experience watching hundreds of products struggle with the same problem: treating onboarding as a one-time event instead of a continuous cycle of value delivery.
Then I fed all of it into Claude and distilled it into this: one master class that covers everything, in plain language, without the jargon, explained so anyone on your team can pick it up and run with it.
I also keep it updated. Books go stale the day they're printed. This doesn't.
Chapter 2: Onboarding Is Not a Feature
Chapter 2: Onboarding Is Not a Feature
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Part 1: The Problem
Chapter 3: What "Value" Actually Means to Your Users
Chapter 3: What "Value" Actually Means to Your Users
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Part 2: The Activation Loop
Chapter 4: The Same-Day Win
Chapter 4: The Same-Day Win
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Part 2: The Activation Loop
Chapter 5: The Straight Line to Value
Chapter 5: The Straight Line to Value
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Part 2: The Activation Loop
Chapter 6: Friction Is a Feature (Sometimes)
Chapter 6: Friction Is a Feature (Sometimes)
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Part 2: The Activation Loop
Chapter 7: The Journey After the First Win
Chapter 7: The Journey After the First Win
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Part 3: The Retention Loop
Chapter 8: Bumpers, Not Guardrails
Chapter 8: Bumpers, Not Guardrails
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Part 3: The Retention Loop
Chapter 9: The Psychology of Sticking Around
Chapter 9: The Psychology of Sticking Around
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Part 3: The Retention Loop
Chapter 10: When Users Sell For You
Chapter 10: When Users Sell For You
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Part 4: The Expansion Loop
Chapter 11: One Size Fits Nobody
Chapter 11: One Size Fits Nobody
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Part 4: The Expansion Loop
Chapter 12: Run Your Own Onboarding Sprint
Chapter 12: Run Your Own Onboarding Sprint
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Part 5: Making it Real