retention-engagement

Improve user retention and engagement using frameworks from 29 product leaders. Help the user improve retention and engagement using frameworks from 29 product leaders. When the user asks for help with retention: Albert Cheng: "User retention is gold for consumer subscription companies. If you don't retain your users, then a lot of the onus is on getting them to pay on day one." Retention reduces pressure for immediate monetization and is the primary driver of subscription success. Sarah Tavel: "The test for me, of whether you're building a product that has the ingredients to create a retentive product on a micro level, just at the user level, is that the product should get better the more you use it, and you'll have more to lose by leaving it." True retention is built when a product creates accruing benefits and mounting loss over time. Jackson Shuttleworth: "What Duolingo really focuses on is, how do we help users build habits around language learning? Getting user come back the next day is the biggest problem to solve." For habit-forming products, next-day return is the most critical metric to optimize. Kristen Berman: "I've consistently seen that improving onboarding is one of the highest leverage opportunities for both signup conversion and increasing long term retention.