Customer Onboarding Statistics 2020 · 216 people
Customer Onboarding Statistics 2020
When thinking about ways to grow a business, most people immediately think about reaching more people and acquiring more sales. But what about the people who sign up? How important is customer onboarding as an overall piece of the user journey puzzle? To find out, we surveyed 216 people in early 2020. We asked them about their experiences as customers, about the role onboarding has played in those experiences, how they feel brands do when it comes to onboarding – and how they feel it could be improved.
86%
of people say they’d be more likely to stay loyal to a business that invests in onboarding content
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- Respondents
- 216
- Fieldwork
- Early 2020
- Audience
- Customers
- Findings
- 10
Over90%
of customers feel that the companies they buy from ‘could do better’ when it comes to onboarding new users/customers.
86%
of people say they’d be more likely to stay loyal to a business that invests in onboarding content that welcomes and educates them after they’ve bought.
8 in 10
users say they’ve deleted an app because they didn’t know how to use it.
55%
of people say they’ve returned a product because they didn’t fully understand how to use it.
63%
of customers say that onboarding – the level of support they’re likely to receive post sale – is an important consideration in whether they make the decision in the first place.
Video is the onboarding tool of choice….
91%
of people have watched a video to understand how to use a physical product better.
74%
of people have watched a video to understand how to use a new app or website better.
97%
of people think that video is an effective tool to welcome and educate new customers.
69%
When asked how they feel companies could improve re. onboarding, 69% of people say that they feel more video should be used.
65%
of customers say video is their favourite way to get to know how to use a product or service.
Methodology and citation
We surveyed 216 people in early 2020. We asked them about their experiences as customers, about the role onboarding has played in those experiences, how they feel brands do when it comes to onboarding – and how they feel it could be improved.
Every finding on this page is also available as a spreadsheet, with its figure and a link to it.
Each finding has its own link and citation, so you can point readers to the exact figure.
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