Engagement & Retention project | OneAssist
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Engagement & Retention project | OneAssist

Understand & Define

Product callout (assumptions) ​

My organisation operates in a B2B2C zone. Hence for me, w.r.t. engagement and retention, the primary users are the partners I tie up. Hence, users for the E&R project will be the businesses who use my products (hence the sales drivers of my partner businesses are the key subjects of this project). The end customer will be the business partner's customers who buy their core products.

We will adhere to these assumptions for all the analysis given in this project.


What is the core value prop of your product?

πŸ‘‰πŸΌ PROTECTING EVERYDAY THINGS THAT MATTER THE MOST TO YOU​


How do users experience the core value prop of the product?

πŸ‘‰πŸΌ By placing/ pushing the card protection plan / digital fraud protection plan along with any basic product Customers buy from NBFCs (generally a personal loan)/ fintechs (while Customers are making payments/ bill payments/ recharges)​


Define the action makes a user an active user?

πŸ‘‰πŸΌ For online partners like fintechs β†’ placement of my product at at least 30% journeys of checkout page so that my product can be clubbed with their core purchase/ bill payment

β€‹πŸ‘‰πŸΌ For partners like NBFCs β†’ Pitching my product with at least 30% of their core product sales like loans


Define customer segmentation

πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ ICP Deep Drive​

Metrics

On-ground sales representative

Cluster head/ regional sales head

Partnership SPOC

Typical Job title

Agent, SDR, BDR

Inside Sales Manager, SDR Head

KAM (Key accounts manager)

User Segmentation

Power

Core

Power

Decision making

Low

Moderate

High

Tech stack adoption

Medium

High

High

Spend Authority on Tech Tools

Low

Medium

High

Professional Goals

Increase lead conversion rates

Meet or exceed monthly and quarterly sales targets.
Provide training and resources for sales reps to improve their performance.

Ensuring the team meets overall targets for the month & year

Continuously learn about new products/services to effectively pitch to potential clients.

Enhance communication skills and negotiation skills to have alignment with good service providers

Analyze sales data to identify trends and areas of improvement - allows for knowing on trend items the customers want
Establish and maintain key business relationships.

Consumption Pattern

Prefers short, easily digestible content like clips, highlights, or brief tutorials.

Consumes longer-form content that offers in-depth insights, such as documentaries about successful sales strategies or biographies of top salespeople.

Leans towards strategic content that covers

market trends, competitor analysis, and global sales strategies.

Upskilling

Enrols in (SDR)entry-level courses that enhance selling techniques and product knowledge.

Invests in comprehensive courses that cover sales analytics, team management, and advanced negotiation skills.

Invests in comprehensive courses that
cover sales analytics, team management and networking.


Segmentation assumptions For this assignment, my ideal user in a typical NBFC/ fintech are generally the decision makers and executors. They are further bifurcated into the core, casual, power users.

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For OneAssist:

  • Casual users are represented by the CBOs (Chief Business officers), National heads. Their main job is to take high level decisions of selling a particular product. They have a medium adoption of tech-stack and mainly give direction to the executors for selling the product.
  • Core users are the ones who handle the entire sales force to sell the products provided to them - e.g. regional sales manager/ cluster sales heads/ partnership SPOCs (like KAM). Their tech adoption is high, indicating frequent use of tools and platforms to manage their teams. They are deeply involved in the trends shown by customers while opting in for a product ad also maintaining the sales for healthy revenue books.
  • Power users are mainly the On-ground sales agents (Agents, SDRs, BDRs) and developers/ UX designers. They are the frontliners when it comes to selling the product offline/ placing the product in the online buying journeys for customers. Their decision-making capability might be low, but they are core to the sales operation. On the other hand, Sales Leaders, like Sales Directors, are strategic users who not only use OneAssist products for day-to-day operations but also make crucial decisions, making them both core and power users.User Category

Revenue generated: ​

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Revenue generated

Casual Users

Low - Since they impact the decision making directly, they do not decide what price

the product would be sold at.

Core Users

Medium - their main KRA is to ensure the sales is high, hence they have a considerable impact on revenue generation

but, they do not priritse a certain partner as they can get their revenues from me or any of my competitors

Power Users

High, as the meads directly convert to incentives and reward for them. More they pitch my product to the end customers, more

is the revenue generation.

Products/ features used: ​

Product features which offer my users a good pitch point to the end customer:

  1. A digital fraud cover for all your UPI handles and m-wallets for a value cover starting at 10,000 till 2 Lacs (some banks are providing a UPI transaction limit of 2 Lacs)
  2. Card cover for both online and offline frauds (including ATM transactions) on ALL cards which the customer owns - cover amount of up to 5 Lacs
  3. 1-call to block cards - a worry free service which comes handy in case you lose your wallet. Just call us and we will block your cards for you - yes, ALL of them. :)
  4. SIM card blocking - Oh, in case you lose your phone? Chill out, just reach us through any of the friend's phones and we will block that for you too.
  5. Free ID replacement - We will happily take the headache of getting your PAN card and Driving license replaced on your part.
  6. Dark web monitoring - In this modern age of internet, we see our data being leaked on to dark web every single day!! Hence, worry not, coz we will track your data for you and provide an on the spot intimation if we see anything out of place, so that you can take timely actions!
  7. Emergency travel assistance - In case you are stranded and are in dire need to come back to base, worry not. We will help you with your return tickets and also help settle your hotel bills - both in India and abroad.
  8. Benefits leading to loads of savings - Whether it is an OTT subscription or discount vouchers, we make sure that every plan customer buys - they get a full value out of it. PAISA VASOOL!



Engagement​

What is the best engagement framework for your product?

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Engagement Framework

Key Tracking Metric

Selected

Rationale

Frequency

No. of times my product is being pitched to the customer while
opting for a core product/ (online sales) no. of journeys my product is visible at checkout

Primary

I deal with a push product in a B2B2C setup. Hence

Depth

No. of plan versions available to the user to ensure customer takes up any one of them

considering the end customer' appetite to pay

NA

My core prop is to ensure customer's daily use items are protected. Hence number of plans will only make it cubersome for sales / UX
to place it in front of customers

Breadth

No. of sub products being experienced by the user to allow
placement and pitching of my product to as many customers as possible

Secondary

More the products I have, more cohorts of the business can be explored, thus making more user base accessible to me.


What is the natural frequency of the product?


πŸ‘‰πŸΌ For offline sales, the product is pitched atleast once in the overall sales pitches done. For online sales, atleast 30% of the journeys are provided with OneAssist VAS product at the billing stage. ​


User segmentation in terms of sales to end customer:

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Depth

Frequency

Breadth

Casual Users

Only 1 product placed/ pitched to end customer

Product pitched/ placed in at least 10% of user journeys (online)/

sales through offline channels

Only 1 product placed/ pitched to end customer

Core Users

2-3 product of different values with same coverage
placed/ pitched to end customer

Product pitched/ placed in at least 30% of user journeys (online)/

sales through offline channels

2-3 different products placed/ pitched to end customer

Power Users

Atleast 5 product in different price ranges

placed/ pitched to end customer

Product pitched/ placed in at least 50% of user journeys (online)/

sales through offline channels

Atleast 5 different products placed/ pitched to end customer


EnR whimsical summary:

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Engagement Campaigns

User Segmentation

Casual

Core

Power

Casual

Power

CAMPAIGN

#1

#2

3

4

5

Goal

Strengthen relationship with the partner business

Increase pitch of my product

Increase my frequency

To overcome competitor offerings

To increase sales by 3x

Pitch

Senior management sync ups @stretegy meet -
new features which are up with the modern trends

Rewards and recognition

Increased commissions and incentives

Additional product feature integrations in current plans

Provide a lower price

Channel

In-person

In person and digital

Offline sales

Offline and online sales

Offline and online sales

Offer

Take them out for catchup dinners/ offsites

Award to top 10 sales heads for impacting the revenue by 2X growth

Provide additional 10% incentive for every 5 plans sold

Provide new features to the partner

Better benefits at 3/4th the price

Frequency

Once a month

Once a quarter

Once payout for every 5 sales at the end of the month

Experiment for 3 months

Experiment for 3 months

Timing

Month starting

End of a quarter

Experimental period of 3 months

Product revival at time of setting new FY targets

Festive period - can market as festive offerings

Metrics

Increased favor to my products

Increased focus on pushing OA products through sales representatives and online placements

Making my product favorable by sales executives while pitching to
end customer over other competitors

Increases my product uptake vs the competitors

Make my product easy to be added in customer bill .


Churn

Retention design

  • For my business, the retention curve flattens post 30 days of customer plan expiry.
  • Which ICP drives best retention - For my business, core users (sales heads) drive the best retention as they are able to take reward and end user value increment in case they choose to stay.

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Best sub - products which drive the retentions are as following: ​

  1. 1-call to block cards - a worry free service which comes handy in case you lose your wallet. Just call us and we will block your cards for you.
  2. SIM card blocking - Oh, in case you lose your phone? Chill out, just reach us through any of the friend's phones and we will block that for you too.
  3. Free ID replacement - We will happily take the headache of getting your PAN card and Driving license replaced on your part.
  4. Dark web monitoring - In this modern age of internet, we see our data being leaked on to dark web every single day!! Hence, worry not, coz we will track your data for you and provide an on the spot intimation if we see anything out of place, so that you can take timely actions!
  5. Emergency travel assistance - In case you are stranded and are in dire need to come back to base, worry not. We will help you with your return tickets and also help settle your hotel bills - both in India and abroad.
  6. Benefits leading to loads of savings - Whether it is an OTT subscription or discount vouchers on merchant sites like Myntra, Nykaa etc., we make sure that every plan customer buys - they get a full value out of it.

Reasons for churn

Top reasons why users churn

Basis the survey results of 151 users, the top churn reasons are as following:

  1. Better pricing from competitors - 77%
  2. End customers biased towards paying for plans which show outright value e.g. free OTT etc. - 62%
  3. Margins are matched and heightened - making the power user to get only the competitor product to pitch to end user - 44%

Identifying the voluntary and involuntary reasons for my users churning

Voluntary

Involuntary

Sales team not pitching my product at time of selling my core product

Impact of RBI guidelines (e.g. for NBFCs - my total base of pitching has reduced since the
pre-approved loan base has been removed from all loan segments (contributing to 40% reduction in my
current TAM)

Non- placement of my product at checkout opt-in places (e.g. at time of checkout, my product
is is not visible due to removal)

Technical glitches (APIs down) - leading to customers not being able to add my product

Pricing of my product is high for the cohort making the end customer turn down the adoption

Compliance factors (e.g. in banks wherein some products might not align with the banking compliance team

Non alignment of product placement (e.g. cannot pitch a 499 protection plan when

customer is making a recharge of ~199 for their mobile)

Partnership with business ending due to the partner business shut down

Pitching/ placement of alternate services being provided by competitor

Non availability of APIs (making the data transfer shift to manual methods which is
longer and ultimately leads to high cancellations/ less product adoption even for end customers who have a willingness to pay


Negative actions to track ​

  • Decrease in monthly revenues (from new customers on their platform)
  • Decrease in their core product sales where my product is placed. E.g. less loans being disbursed by NBFCs than usual
  • Decrease in pitching of my product while customer is buying product from their app/ sales pitches. E.g. instead of pitching in every call/ 30% of the journeys, my product is only being pitched in 50% of the usual metrics
  • Low NPS - No or low promotion/ collaterals present on their site for my VAS product - a campaign with a banner to highlight my product (especially in fintechs, where visuals play a high role in decision making along with value description. e.g. only INR 1/ day)

Resurrection campaigns

Campaign 1 -

  1. Segmentation of user type - Casual
  2. Pitch/ content - Revision of agreement
  3. Offer - Taking partner consent to auto - renew the customers once their protection plan expires.
  4. Frequency - Yearly
  5. Success metrics - By turing an acquisition only partner into a subscriber partner can keep giving me returns in long run because of the following:

Auto renewals (turn on) - basis the other partner data - my auto renewal rate is @60% and these 60% customers do not attract any partner commission - thus giving me higher revenue

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Campaign 2 -

  1. Segmentation of user type - Casual
  2. Pitch/ content - Addendum for user database access (the ones who do not opt for auto renewals in campaign 1)
  3. Offer - send out strategic communications with 30% off code for them to buy any other category plans from my D2C website.
  4. Frequency - within 3 months of the user plan expiry
  5. Success metrics - ensure atleast 30% of the target expired base


Campaign 3-

  1. Segmentation of user type - end customer who has had a successful claims journey (post expiry of plan)
  2. Pitch/ content - Provide a monthly plan (on auto renewal basis) which enables end user to get back to us out of goodwill (due to good cx care journey/ experience)
  3. Offer - 1st month free plan
  4. Frequency - once per user post 10 days of plan expiry
  5. Success metrics - 5% of target users to keep renewing plans on monthly rates


Campaign 4 -

  1. Segmentation of user type - end customers who have opted for my plan buy=t cancelled it within 15 days of buying from online/ offline channels
  2. Pitch/ content - To reduce the cancellations post buying the products by end user
  3. Offer - Instead of offering refunds, try to talk to customer about features >>> if that doesnt work >>> try giving discounts up to 30% of the plan value >>>> if that doesn't work provide customers agood market value OTT subscription voucher e.g. Amazon Prime worth 1499/-
  4. Frequency - once per customer (only 1st cancellations request to be taken up basis this retention process
  5. Success metrics - 50% cancellation seekers should take a discount on the plan value or opt for the lifestyle/ OTT vouchers being offered


Campaign 5-

  1. Segmentation of user type - cancelled customers
  2. Pitch/ content - Incentivise the cancelled customers to know the reasons of churn and other data points (behavioural metrics)
  3. Offer - Incentivise the customers who have agreed to being interviewed by providing them a 1-month free protection plan or by providing them a coupon code of flat 15% off on any of the D2C protection plans availabe on our app/ website.
  4. Frequency - As per market research activity with a capping of one incentive / user
  5. Success metrics - 70% of the target interviewed people give clear answers to the qestionnaire.



Thank you for reading through my project. This project has really helped me go to the depth of our E&R strategy and how I can impact it even though I am not one of the key users of the product.

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