The contract renews in month twelve. The renewal was decided in week three.

Most renewal conversations are settled long before anyone opens the renewal conversation, and the evidence for the outcome is already sitting in the first month's activity.

By Steve 5 min read
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A business with a 90% annual retention rate tends to treat the missing 10% as a renewal problem. Someone reviews the account in month eleven, discovers the relationship has gone quiet, and books a call to rescue it. The call rarely works. By then the customer has spent most of a year deciding whether the purchase was worth making, and the decisive evidence arrived in the first few weeks: long before anyone on the supplier’s side was paying attention. This is not a customer service failure. It is a structural…

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