- Mobile apps are facing engagement and retention crises, as many users only launch apps once or opt out of push notifications.
- To improve retention, companies should personalize experiences for user segments rather than broad groups, send fewer but better targeted push messages, and address churn risk early in the user lifecycle through predictive analytics.
- Case studies showed companies increasing retention rates by over 10% by identifying at-risk users and engaging them with personalized journeys to encourage continued app use.
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Mobile Tactics Improve Customer Retention
1. B a t t l e f i e l d Ta c t i c s t o I m p r o v e
C u s t o m e r R e t e n t i o n o n M o b i l e
H e n r y C i p o l l a , C o - f o u n d e r & C T O
2. • Expect immediate value every time
• Want a seamless mobile experience across devices
• Demand personalized content tailored to their specific
behavior, location and interactions
• Really don’t like to be annoyed by useless push
messages
• Perceive there to be an infinite number of apps
Consumer Demands
5. ▪ 25% of users will only launch your app once
▪ 35% of push messages are not segmented
▪ 50% of people already view push as annoying
▪ 48% of people opt-out of push
▪ The most popular metric for determining mobile
success is downloads
Signs point to tipping in the wrong direction
6.
7. Yet, we know users want push
Users with push
enabled have 88%
more app
launches
Source: Localytics, 2014
9. • Manage opt-in
• Personalize experiences with segments, not words
• Send fewer, better messages
• It is too late for retention campaigns
#feedyourapp
10. • Manage opt-in
• Personalize experiences with segments, not words
• Send fewer, better messages
• It is too late for retention campaigns
#feedyourapp
13. • Manage opt-in
• Personalize experiences with segments, not words
• Send fewer, better messages
• It is too late for retention campaigns
#feedyourapp
16. 3% of broadcast push
messages are clicked
7% of targeted push
messages are clicked
15% of users converted 54% of users converted
BROADCAST TARGETED
Segment your audience
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17. We’ve observed that granular, multi-factor targeting has an
immediate, material impact on retention across a range of
app sizes, categories, and business models.
+190%
+250%
+440%
7-DayRetention%
18. • Manage opt-in
• Personalize experiences with segments, not words
• Send fewer, better messages
• It is too late for retention campaigns
#feedyourapp
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21. • Manage opt-in
• Personalize experiences with segments, not words
• Send fewer, better messages
• It is too late for retention campaigns
#feedyourapp
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The Churn problem trumps the logic of
traditional segmentation and targeting…
…once you’ve observed a user to churn, it’s
already too late.
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Delivery Hero beat churn by getting ahead
of the problem.
THE RESULT:
> 11% increase in retention in first 30 days.
About:
- Takeaway and food delivery platform
- 2,000 Employees
- 34 international markets
- 10 million monthly orders
- $3.1 billion valuation (June 2015)
THE OPPORTUNITY: Predictive targeting &
personalization at scale.
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By identifying risky behavior early in the
user lifecycle…
Discovering the ‘aha!’ moments that lead to true product adoption
• 7+ friends in any given user’s first 10 days
For Delivery Hero…
- Users who performed 1+ Checkout Success
Events in their first 14 days were 16% less likely to
churn; and
- Users who performed 3+ Restaurant Tapped
events in their first 3 days were 13% less likely to
churn
- Chamath Palihapitiya
Growth @ Facebook
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…to segment and communicate
with churn risk users.
- Predictively segment which users are
at-risk of churn
- As users become flagged for churn
risk, put them on a ‘happy path’
towards retention
- Sequence of touch points optimized
towards maximizing ROI
26. S A L E S F O R C E
M A R K E T I N G C L O U D
I N T E G R AT I O N
27. The Localytics/SFMC integration solves these
challenges:
• Localytics Profile data is combined with
SFMC Contact data, giving you one
complete picture of your users across web
and mobile
• Create multi-channel engagement by
including Localytics messages in your
SFMC Journey Builder campaigns
Most importantly, the iPhone has completely changed consumers’ expectations.
Now, they look for brands they trust – if their main interactions with us are over their personal phones, trust is critical.
Now, they look for value at the exact moment they need it – today, that’s primarily being delivered through apps but is quickly changing to include things like push notifications and widgets.
Now, they interact with us for brief moments of time but multiple times a day.
This “rising action” in the story of the mobile revolution is critical, as it creates a huge opportunity for brands…but it’s an opportunity they haven’t figured out how to take advantage of yet.
Bad engagement happens, and it can be costly:
25% of apps are only used once
50% of users disable push notifications
First month retention is 3x higher when users have push
Personalized push campaigns drive 3x more conversions than broadcast push campaigns
Opposing forces are slamming together:
Consumers want personalized experiences, but they are concerned about privacy
Mobile promises great engagement – but it can also be a fierce, and largely misunderstood, distractor
Access to data, provided by technology and machine learning, gives us the power to do mobile right – and the temptation to do it wrong
Engagement is viewed as marketing jargon – but it’s very definition is different with mobile
Shift in the space as it matures to caring about retention
Is this the normal evolution of any new space – dot.com, get visitors to my site, now what do I do with those visitors, how do I monetize them and keep them coming back
Forrester data or quote
Harvard Biz Review
Based on the millions of campaigns run with the largest publishers in the app stores, we’ve seen that targeted, personalized push messaging can increase engagement by 400%.
But, less than 20% of marketers are including this kind of targeting in their push campaigns today, mostly because they don’t have the requisite data.
Include an example relevant to your prospect/customer here; Example: For ESPN, this may be sending push targeted to users’ location, the category of previous articles read, videos watched, and favorite sports teams.