Getting someone’s attention can be difficult these days; people have so many interests and so little time that convincing them to swing by a website can count as a real victory. Unfortunately for Twitter, it’s also important to keep people around, and in this respect, statistics indicate that the micro-blogging service is failing rather miserably.
Nielsen Could Have Twitter’s Retention Rates Wrong
Nielsen Wire
Yahoo Cuts Data Retention Period To Three Months
Think about setting aside issues related to results and advertising for a moment; should better privacy standards be enough to make any given search engine your favorite? Yahoo no doubt wants everyone to consider this question very carefully, as a new move has made it the leader in terms of short data retention policies.
New Data Retention Laws in Germany
Last week, Germany’s ruling parties – a coalition of SPD & CDU, with efforts in the digital area recently spearheaded by minister of interior Wolfgang Schäuble (pictured) – passed a bill for new data retention laws*.
Top Web Sites Have Retention, Overlap
Nielsen//NetRatings has announced the leaders in three Web categories. Search, career development and multi-category travel have had high month- over- month visitor retention rates from June to July, but also had audience overlap with other competitors in their categories.
Google Reduces Data Retention Policy To 18 Months
Google’s Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer appears to be a master of textual undercurrents (what the reader understands as "between the lines"), responding to Privacy International’s recent condemnation of the company’s privacy policies without mentioning the group itself.
EU Challenges Google On Data Retention
Two years may be too long to keep search information without some kind of justification, according to the European Union.
Yahoo Miles Above Google for Retention
An interesting, albeit controversial, set of statistics was provided by Compete.com last week outlining the top 20 online properties that a pool of 2,000,000 people spent the most time on in December 2006.
HR Consulting Firm Provides Employee Retention Guidance
You attract them, you screen them, you interview them, you hire and train them, and then they leave you. It is estimated that employee turn over costs U.S. companies over one billion dollars annually.
10 Tips For Long Term Client Retention
Attracting and retaining long-term clients is a powerful strategy for growing your business. Long-term clients are likely to feel more satisfied, are more likely to refer others, and are more likely to purchase additional services from you.