Increase The Retention Rates In Your Online Community

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Social Psychology Hacks To keep members active

by  Richard  Millington

# Members Conversion rate

0 - 100 30%

100 - 1k 1% - 10%

1k - 10k 0.5% - 1%

10k - 100k 0.25%

100k+ 0.1%

1% of visitors will register to join

15% who register will contribute to the community

20%WHO participate will still be active in 6 months

we need 3.3m visitors to get 1000 actively participating members

(0.01 * 0.15 * 0.2) = 0.00031000/0.0003 = 3,333,333

Churn > sector growth = Death

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Churn > sector growth = Death

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Interest in ‘online communities’

Interest in ‘social media’

a life and death struggle for

retention

We need to fuse Technology, Psychology, with our DATA

..and escape the digital dark-ages

LEvel 1 Converting Traffic

Gate it

create multiple entrances pages

bigger and brighter registration box

‘nyt-it’ (10 clicks)

‘nyt-it’ (3 clicks)

INSERT a CTA INTO Places Members visit

What is a good CTA?

I can’t wait to connect, share, and be welcomed

today!!!

No appeal

Pleasure

Pain

Hope

Fear

Social inclusion

Social rejection

No appeal “Join the community”

Pleasure “The funniest HR tales on the net”

Pain “Swap time-saving teacher hacks”

Hope “Using social tech to find the right applicants"

Fear “Get help to make your business hack-proof”

Social inclusion “The World-Class Community for World-Class Bartenders”

Social rejection “join 17000 models at ….”

LEvel 2 participation hooks

what we do now…

what we should be asking people to do…

Disclosure hooks

doing thinking feeling fearing

or drive peopleto your most

popular discussions

Sticky Thread

Notification

Autoresponders

Welcome e-mails

Tell members where to go next

(use a bit.ly link) to track it

level 3: members for life

level 3: members for life3 - 5 years

INFORMATION SEEKERS

THE PROBLEM WITH

everyone is too busy to participate

Check e-mail

Your community

Check Facebook

Check the news

Priorities

competence autonomy relatedness

competence

if members feel they can make unique contributions, they will

ASK MEMBERS ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE

label their experience and Expertise

Find and referencetheir expertise

be specific where they contribute expertise

HIGHLIGHT gREAT CONTRIBUTIONS

…AND DOCUMENT THEM!

turn members into experts

autonomy

autonomyperceived

support

we participate in groups which support our beliefs & values

how do we create an autonomy-supportive group ?

www.selfdeterminationtheory.org/perceived-autonomy-support/

Measure your group’s PAS

autonomy begins with feeling understood

Design options to be involved Tackle questions

on key topic

Run column/ group/category

Find experts

Give feedback

How would you like to be involved?

train volunteers IN ‘ALCO’Ask Listen Create options

Joins

Joins

Participate

Joins

Participate

Autoresponder ask about goals - reply to e-mail

Joins

Participate

Autoresponder ask about goals - reply to e-mail

Replies go to you / volunteers - individual contact

e-mails appear from you.

Replies go to you

Joins

Participate

Autoresponder ask about goals - reply to e-mail

Replies go to you / volunteers - individual contact

Set reminders to sustain interest

set reminders

Use inbox.google.com

Social relatedness

what to look for

References to past events

Mentions of other members by name

Inside jokes

High levels of self-disclosure

Off-site bonding

Sub-groups forming

Introduce RITUALS

unique experiences

deeper level discussions

More specific

More detailed

More researched

More emotive

More self-disclosure

More funny

More ……….?

Ask clarifying questions, push for more information,

for most disclosure

Firstritual

EngagementExperience

Introduce to similar member

etc…

Identifywants

Createopportunities

Recruitvolunteers

Followup

Identifyexpertise

Explain whereto use expertise

Highlightexpertise

Give ownership

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