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#JUMP THE SHARK TV#

And the more advanced warning you’ll have to stave off any of the things we’ve covered above. The more you can educate yourself on the mathematics of growth and virality, the more carefully you can plan. In other words, you’ve achieved reverse growth. You suddenly lose your ability to acquire users more and more every day – and now you LOSE users quicker than you can acquire them. You’ve overexposed your marketing channel to your product, and fewer and fewer people are buying.

Network saturation then smacks you in the face.

acquisition rate increases, or churn rate decreases). Once you reach 5,000 users you’ve got a customer acquisition rate that equals your churn rate, and all growth stops until something changes (i.e.

Your carrying capacity refers to the moment when your churn rate equals your customer acquisition rate. Let’s say you are adding 500 users per week.

This means each week, 500 users become non-users. Let’s say you have 5,000 users, and your churn rate is 10% per week.

Your churn rate refers to the amount of users you lose during a predefined time period.

If two happen at once, you better have an incredible team ready to solve a big problem.īut if all three happen at once, you’re sunk.īut why does this happen? Let’s take a closer look. If any of these were to happen by themselves it sucks, and would take time and effort to overcome. In growth engineering, “ jumping the shark” refers to the perfect storm of awfulness when a company… We’re going to be borrowing the “ j ump the shark” idiom to describe our very own turning point where user growth begins to decline. (A use case that was made famous by Andrew Chen.) How the Hell Does This Relate to Viral Marketing?

Okay, so the million dollar question now becomes. So let’s all agree to take this as the origin of the idiom, shall we?)

#JUMP THE SHARK TV#

However, this site is not about debating the viewership stats of 70’s TV shows. ( NOTE: It has come to my attention that there are, as ridiculous as it may sound, arguments on whether or not the “jump the shark” moment was the true moment when Happy Days began its decline. To sum up, the idiom “ jump the shark” refers to the turning point where a once popular and high-quality TV show that has since leveled off starts to decline and is never the same again. While the scene did briefly capture the attention of viewers, it was clearly a one-off gimmick that was a far cry from what the show had been known for, and was a blatant a last ditch effort to maintain the popularity they had enjoyed in years prior.Īlthough Happy Days continued to air for a few more seasons, fans noted that after the moment Fonzie “jumped the shark” the show continued to decline in quality and was never the same again. So in the season five premiere, the writers decided to engineer an incredibly odd situation that resulted in Fonzie on water skis jumping over shark infested waters. Their viewership started to level off, and in an act of desperation the writers decided to get “creative.” Your Happy Days Are Over, Fonzie However, after four seasons the writers were running out of ideas – and the viewers knew it.