Smart way to get users to complete their profile
Here's how Geni did it. Simple and sweet!
Geni indicates your progress in completing your profile by displaying it in a large percentage format, e.g. -- Your profile is 30% complete.
Profiles are usually lengthy and cumbersome, but this seems to be a simple way to incentivise users to complete it. I like how they've gone the extra mile to tell me how I can complete it faster, with breakdowns of what they consider to be important sections.
Nice work, Geni -- keep it up!
Related links:
Geni indicates your progress in completing your profile by displaying it in a large percentage format, e.g. -- Your profile is 30% complete.
Profiles are usually lengthy and cumbersome, but this seems to be a simple way to incentivise users to complete it. I like how they've gone the extra mile to tell me how I can complete it faster, with breakdowns of what they consider to be important sections.
Nice work, Geni -- keep it up!
Related links:
- Praveen Rajan: Tracing my family tree with Geni
Labels: user experience, web 2.0
posted by Praveen at
1:52 AM
2 Comments:
This is in refrence to a post you made a while back about flikzor and their "number of passes left" routine. I realized that this was a scam after I registered as a member, but haven't seen anyone call them out yet. Just go back to flikzor.com and see for yourself.
Hey, thanks for the heads up! Just went back to Flikzor. It does seem like it was simply a gimmick, probably tied to a cookie. The page source includes some Javascript that calculates the time between your last request for a password. It prompts you to request again after 24 hours.
(Original post: Nice spin to a private beta)
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