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Gamification for Product Excellence

You're reading from   Gamification for Product Excellence Make your product stand out with higher user engagement, retention, and innovation

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837638383
Length 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mike Hyzy Mike Hyzy
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Bret Wardle Bret Wardle
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Mr. Gabe Zichermann Mr. Gabe Zichermann
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Gamification Basics 2. Chapter 2: Gamification for Product Managers FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Gamification Frameworks and Experts 4. Chapter 4: Understanding Your User 5. Chapter 5: Game Mechanics and Psychology 6. Chapter 6: Designing a Gamification Strategy 7. Chapter 7: Implementing Your Gamification 8. Chapter 8: Challenges and Limitations in Gamification 9. Chapter 9: Selling Your Gamification Strategy 10. Chapter 10: Gamifying Your Product Development Processes 11. Chapter 11: Case Studies and Best Practices 12. Chapter 12: The Future of Gamification 13. Index 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Reward systems

Reward systems can be a powerful motivator. By rewarding your users, you can drive several valuable KPIs, including daily/weekly/monthly average users, retention rate, transaction values, and referrals, to name just a few. There are several ways to reward users, but the most successful rely on having meaningful and attainable rewards. You can accomplish that by using one or more of the tactics discussed in this subsection.

A product such as our hypothetical Product Manager Media product would rely on many of these features. The goal of any social platform is to motivate others to spread it to their friends and family. Providing the users with rewards for continued use can encourage them to log in daily and see what’s new.

Point redemption

These systems rely on users earning points or credits for activities. This can be a transaction, filling out a profile, answering questions to better tailor ads, or any number of things. Point systems work particularly...

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