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How to Build Habit-Forming Products

By Nir Eyal

Year Published: 2014
ISBN-13: 978-0241184837
Categories: Habits, Innovation, Products

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Users who continuously find value in a product are more likely to tell their friends about it.

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Hooked users become brand evangelists – megaphones for your company, bringing in new users at little or no cost.

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…products that require a high degree of behavior change are doomed to fail even if the benefits of using the new product are clear and substantial.

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User habits are a competitive advantage. Products that change customer routines are less susceptible to attacks from other companies.

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…naïve entrepreneurs often find that better products don’t always win – especially if a large number of users have already adopted a competing product.

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…old habits die hard and new products or services need to offer dramatic improvements to shake users out of old routines.

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The fact is that successfully changing long-term user habits is exceptionally rare.

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Companies that succeed in building a habit-forming business are often associated with game-changing, wildly successful innovation.

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…the habits you’ve most recently acquired are also the ones most likely to go soonest.

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The enemy of forming new habits is past behaviors, and research suggests that old habits die hard.

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