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Data: Onboarding Boosts Online Engagement

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In its “State of Community Management 2015” report, The Community Roundtable called a new-member onboarding program a “quick win” for organizations that host online communities. “This year’s research shows that personal (versus automated) welcome emails, welcome calls, webinars, and video welcome tours all have significant correlation to higher engagement rates,” the authors note.

Online Community Engagement

Legend:   Without New-Member Programs   With New-Member Programs

Inactive:

34%
28%

Lurkers:

35%
35%

Contributors:

16%
17%

Creators:

10%
12%

Collaborators:

5%
9%

Source: The Community Roundtable, “The State of Community Management 2015  (opens in a new tab)” Online Community Engagement

Tags: #fan engagement #Member Engagement #onboarding #online communities

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