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User Growth & Engagement: A Hacker Metric-Nir&Far

2018/10/22
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Nir Eyal
专注于行为科学和生产力提升的投资者、作家和讲师。
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我观察到Facebook的成功并非源于其IPO事件,而是其对用户数据的深刻理解和运用。Andrew Chen对Facebook用户数据的分析显示,自2009年3月以来,Facebook的每日活跃用户(DAU)与每月活跃用户(MAU)的比率始终保持在50%左右,这令人震惊。这个比率的稳定性暗示着某种成功的秘诀。 我认为,对于科技创业公司而言,如果只有一个关键指标需要关注,那就是每日回访用户的比例(DAU/MAU)。这是因为,在日益拥挤的数字世界中,习惯设计至关重要,它决定了创业公司的成败。高用户参与度的产品往往也是高增长产品,两者密不可分。高DAU/MAU比率是用户习惯强度的有力指标。 高DAU/MAU比率比竞争对手的规模或增长率更重要。Facebook战胜Myspace和Friendster等早期竞争对手,正是因为其高用户参与度带来的指数级增长效应。David Skok指出,增长的关键因素并非病毒系数,而是病毒循环时间。高DAU/MAU比率通过提高用户循环频率和扩大回应用户群体来缩短病毒循环时间,从而加速增长。 许多人将用户增长和用户参与度对立起来,认为两者只能选择其一。但我认为这是错误的,两者缺一不可。用户增长至关重要,但只关注用户增长而忽略用户参与度,会使公司陷入困境。Peter Thiel指出,分销渠道的有效性遵循幂律定律,公司通常只有一个主要的增长策略,容易被竞争对手模仿。 相反,用户参与度的驱动机制不遵循幂律定律。通过深入观察用户行为,发现用户未表达的需求并培养用户习惯,才能建立竞争优势。这个过程需要时间和反复试验,需要比用户更了解用户自身。分销策略通常是显而易见的,但行为洞察力是重要的秘密,只有通过严格的测试才能发现。 一些公司,如Zynga和Quora,虽然有明显的获客方式,但他们也通过行为洞察力来提升用户参与度。Instagram的成功也源于其对用户行为的深刻理解。行为设计难以被复制,因为竞争对手无法识别和利用这些洞察力。即使知道竞争对手的产品更好用,也难以知道原因,更难以复制。 习惯设计需要与增长黑客不同的技能,它结合了心理学和设计。能够快速培养用户习惯的公司具有巨大优势,因为用户会排斥其他解决方案,即使这些解决方案在技术上更优越。用户的时间和精力有限,高用户参与度会让用户放弃竞争对手的产品。 但只关注用户参与度而忽略用户增长也是失败的。病毒式传播机制需要融入产品核心,不能事后添加。无论你的服务多么吸引人,如果没有有效的获客方式,它仍然会停留在小众市场。高用户参与度和高用户增长需要强大的分销引擎,而这需要活跃用户的支持。因此,关注DAU/MAU比率,可以提高成功的几率。

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This chapter analyzes Facebook's remarkably consistent ratio of daily active users (DAU) to monthly active users (MAU), hovering around 50% since 2009. The author questions whether this ratio is a key predictor of internet success and explores its implications for business growth.
  • Facebook's DAU/MAU ratio consistently remained around 50% since March 2009.
  • The ratio's stability is surprising given periodic user reactions to site changes.
  • The author questions the ratio's significance as a predictor of internet success.

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If you’re like me, you’ve had enough of the Facebook IPO story. For tech entrepreneurs struggling to build stuff, the cacophony of recent press is just more noise. That’s why when my friend Andrew Chen posted an insightful analysis of Facebook user data, I was happy to get back to learning from what the company did right instead of debating what its bankers did wrong.

Chen calculated Facebook’s historical ratio of daily active users (DAU) to monthly active users (MAU) and the stats are startling. Since March 2009, when the earliest data is available, approximately 50% of Facebook users logged in daily.

You can read the Nir and Far blog post on: User Growth & Engagement: A Hacker Metric https://www.nirandfar.com/2012/05/never-take-your-eyes-off-this-hacker-metric.html

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