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Nudge Coach Happy Hour

What happened at Nudge Coach in 2020

Transparency time! “Things were not good last January.” This week we talk about our 2020 journey at Nudge Coach, and how our singular focus on reducing customer has us in a position of strength going into 2021.


We talk about what we did to reduce customer churn by 70% in 2020 and how coaching businesses can benefit from a similar focus to set the foundation for scale.


From spinning out of a huge strategic partnership that left us to pick up the pieces of a fledgling SaaS business, to radically altering our business model, and finally entering 2021 on a high with a huge product update just days away - here’s our 2020 year in review.


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