Framework
Emotional Retention Strategy
Customers remember how they felt. Retention shifts from functional to relational.
How it works
- 1Design for how your product makes users feel, not just what it does.
- 2Use AI to surface emotional signals within user behavior and interactions.
- 3Relational retention survives competitive pressure that functional retention does not.
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