The kickoff call always goes well. Churn risk shows up around month two, once the honeymoon period's forgiving conditions are gone. Here's what actually determines whether month two goes well.
Sean Weisbrot- Founder, SparkVox
The kickoff call always goes well - new service, real enthusiasm, a content calendar everyone agrees looks great. The churn risk doesn't show up at kickoff. It shows up around month two, once the first wave of energy has worn off and the actual delivery quality is all that's left to judge the relationship on.
Early drafts get approved with light edits partly because the client is excited and partly because they haven't yet built a clear sense of what "good" looks like from this agency. By month two, both of those forgiving conditions are gone - the client has a baseline expectation now, and any gap between that expectation and delivery becomes much more visible.
Not the pitch, not the kickoff deck - whether the drafts sound like the client and whether turnaround stays fast once the initial slack in everyone's calendar is gone. Both of those depend on the underlying production system, not on how good the sales conversation was.
Client onboarded four weeks ago. Weeks one and two: drafts approved quickly, client excited, everyone happy. Week three: the account manager who onboarded them gets pulled onto a new client launch, and this account's drafts start coming from someone less familiar with the voice. Week four: the client notices posts feel slightly off, starts requesting more revisions, and the relationship's tone shifts from "this is great" to "let's make sure this stays on track." Nothing dramatic happened - just the ordinary strain of a growing roster meeting an account that no longer has anyone's full attention.
Treating each instance as a one-off - reassigning a dedicated account manager, apologizing for the dip - fixes the symptom for that client without addressing why it happened: quality was tied to one person's bandwidth rather than a system that holds up regardless of who's covering an account that week. Left unaddressed, the same pattern recurs with the next client whose onboarding coincides with someone else's ramp-up period.
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