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Keep the conversations going: engagement-based customer segmentation on online social service platforms

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  • Nripesh Trivedi

    (Banaras Hindu University)

  • Daniel Adomako Asamoah

    (Wright State University)

  • Derek Doran

    (Wright State University)

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Most businesses and organizations develop online services as a value-added offering, which is a significant revenue stream from their existing user base. Such services may be enhanced with social elements to serve as value-added tools for user attraction and retention. Social elements may allow users to post content, share information and directly interact with each other. Investments in these social features are for naught if they do not encourage users to engage on the platform effectively. However, common ways to segment customers by their engagement is hindered by the statistical nature of behavioral data based on social elements. To address this important concern, this paper presents a methodological framework for engagement-based customer segmentation able to appropriately consider signals from social elements. It argues why the traditional approaches for user segmentation is ill-suited and advocates for the integration of kernel functions with clustering to segment, identify and understand user engagement profiles. The framework is demonstrated with real data from a large, very active OSS.

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  • Nripesh Trivedi & Daniel Adomako Asamoah & Derek Doran, 2018. "Keep the conversations going: engagement-based customer segmentation on online social service platforms," Information Systems Frontiers, Springer, vol. 20(2), pages 239-257, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:infosf:v:20:y:2018:i:2:d:10.1007_s10796-016-9719-x
    DOI: 10.1007/s10796-016-9719-x
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