What are some good retention tips?

[flashfreak]

Originally posted by Sausage@Mar 29 2005, 07:55 PM
What level of interactivity do you think members look for?

I am actually designing a new members area as we speak and am leaning towards making it as interactive (games, members board, model chat etc) as possible. Have you found that more a site being more interactive helps retention or maybe even damages it? Just interested in what some of you more experienced folk think..

I agree, interactivity is the key to improve retention.
Surfers become more and more sophisticated, video and pic galleries is just not enough for them nowadays, they trade dvds with content from various sites and they can find it for free too on p2p networks.

they key is to create a community, to make them feel they belong to the site and this can be done only through interractivity.

ask them what they want to see next, install a voting script so they can give a score for each scene, install polling systems, start contests ( using our games of course ) giving away prizes like monthly memberships, mugs, t-shirts etc.