While the company hasn't shared its product roadmap for the coming year, it wouldn't be hard to imagine it building out tools for retention and monetization later.
Private banking units desperately looked to compete with that, and they saw Kinexus' data aggregation as a tool for client retention and a way to get more assets under management.
These results suggest that Motivational Interviewing could be a useful tool for improving retention in education and employment programs, but clinicians should be attentive to how participant characteristics might enhance or diminish Motivational Interviewing effects.
Successfully integrating psychiatric and psychosocial treatment into HIV care, when possible, may serve as a tool for improving both retention in care and HIV clinical outcomes [ 43– 43].
"When we introduced it, we thought this is going to be a great recruiting tool for us, great for retention and the single best mental health facilitator you could get," FullContact's content director Brad McCarty said.
As the primary cable provider in most of the state of New York, its local news channels are a retention tool for cable subscribers; the channels are not available from competing services like Verizon FiOS.
"When you see that you'd be paying that for the internet alone, it's a deal," says Smith, who describes the package as having been devised primarily as a retention tool for Cox's customers on the verge of bolting.
Being widely considered a powerful tool for improving the capacity retention and rate capability of cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries, surface modification has never been applied for obtaining truly high-rate spinels.
Hence, private companies have come to realize that the allowance of secondary sales can be a powerful tool for talent recruitment and retention, as it allows employees with more financial flexibility, thereby allowing employees to maintain focus on growing company value (see Employee liquidity — good for private companies?).
Rocky was probably a little overzealous in saying that Groupon is poised for collapse, but there is no doubt that there are holes in its business model, just as there is no doubt that there are upsides to the model as a whole, both as an advertising channel and a tool for customer acquisition and retention.
