🦒 Engagement & Retention Project | Jiraaf
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Engagement & Retention Project | Jiraaf

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A. Understanding Jiraaf

What is Jiraaf?

Jiraaf is an investment platform that enables investors (Retail, HNI and Institutional) to invest in Fixed income securities catering to a range of risk profiles (6-20% Return) and tenures (30 days to 3 years).

  1. Catering to investment products from across the risk profile: Jiraaf has products ranging from "safe" securities like treasury bonds (5-7%) to Corporate Bonds (9 - 13%) to Alternative Investments (15 - 20%)
  2. Tenures: Securities are available that have tenures of 30 days to 3 years
  3. Minimum Investments: From INR 1,000 to INR 1,00,000
  4. Interest and Principal Repayment schedules: Monthly/Quarterly/Annually/At Maturity

Core value prop of Jiraaf?

  1. Investing in a wide array of opportunities as per the risk profile and the tenure of the security that is vetted by Jiraaf.
  2. Build passive income: By investing in fixed income securities, the user is able to generate Passive income in the form of repayments made on account of interest accrued and principal re-payment.
  3. Increase diversification of portfolio: By allocating a proportion of the overall liquid wealth in fixed income securities through Jiraaf.
  4. Increase higher returns: By investing in alternative investments. There are securities that offer returns that are higher than 15%.


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How do users experience the core value prop?

  1. Browsing and evaluating opportunities available to the user to invest on the Jiraaf Platform
  2. Investing in the opportunities and earning returns periodically

Natural Frequency for the core product (and defining Active User)

Active User: User investing within 6 months of signing up.

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User

Natural Frequency

Casual

Once a Quarter

Core

Once a Month

Power

Once a Week

Sub-Products and Frequency

There are no sub-products and hence, no frequency

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B. Customer Segmentation

ICP

Parameters

ICP 1: Young Adult

ICP 2: HNI

ICP 3: Family Offices/ HNIs

General

ICP Type

Early Career

Mid Career

Mid Career

Social Media

Linkedin, Instagram

Linkedin, Instagram

Linkedin, Instagram

Income

20L - 50L

50L - 2Cr

5Cr >

Age

25 - 35

35 - 50

25 - 50

Education

Tier 1/2 University Undergrad

Tier 1/2 University MBA

Tier 1/2 University Undergrad

Tier 1/2 University MBA

Tier 1/2 University Undergrad

Tier 1/2 University MBA

Geography

Metro

Metro

Metro, Tier 1/2 Cities

Single / Married

Single

Married

Married

Kids?

No

Yes

Yes

Moved to new

city

Yes

No

No

Profession

Startups, MNCs, Corporates

Startups, MNCs, Corporates,

Business Owner

Managing Family Office as a CIO

or part of the Family

Who do They

follow?

Fin-fluencers - Ankur Warikoo,

Shantanu Deshpande, Nikhil

Kamath

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Comedians: Tanmay bhat,

Bassi, Kullu, Raunak Rajani

Sportsmen (Cricket and/or

Football), Finfluencers,
Movies

Finfluencers: Ankur Warikoo,

Kunal Shah, Shraddha Sharma,

Sharan Hegde, Kiran Mazumdar

Shaw
Sportsmen: Cricketers

How does the user engage?

Read / Listen /

Watch

Podcasts (FIRE),

Business News, Memes,

Standup Comedy, IPL

Newspaper, Whatsapp

Groups, Business News (TV),

Newsletters, Doom-scrolling

on Linkedin, Watching

Netflix with partner/family
Enjoys watching sports

Newspapers,Business

and Political News (TV),

Linkedin Articles, Self Help

Books, Motivation Videos,

Whatsapp Broadcasts

Outdoor

Activities

Clubs, Pubs, Cafes, Travel (Hostel /

Budget Hotels), Treks

Restaurants, Fine Dine, Vacation

(Resorts)

​Restaurants, Fine Dine, Vacation

(Resorts), Private Parties, Yacht

Parties, Health Retreat

Apps

Instagram, Snapchat, Whatsapp,

Youtube, Netflix, Amazon, Swiggy,

Zomato, PhonePe, Hotstar, Jio

Linkedin, Instagram, Whatsapp,

Youtube, Netflix, Amazon, Swiggy,

Zomato, PhonePe, Hotstar, Jio

Linkedin, Whatsapp, Youtube,

Netflix, Amazon, Swiggy,

Zomato, PhonePe, Hotstar, Jio

Hobbies

Playing sports (Cricket / Football),

Reading, Traveling, Movies, Music

Playing sports (Cricket / Football

/ Badminton), Reading, Traveling,

Movies, Music

Playing sports (Golf / Tennis),

Reading, Traveling, Movies, Music

Financial Information

Risk Appetite

High

Low - Medium

Medium to High

Financial Literacy

Low - High

Medium

High

Money Spent

Ordering food, Street wear Clothes,

Shoes/Sneakers, Traveling (Budget),

SIP, Investments, House Rent

Dine In, Shopping (Luxury brands),

Vacations (Resorts / 5 stars), SIPs,

Car, House (5Cr - 20Cr)

Dine In, Shopping (Luxury brands),

Vacations (Resorts / 5 stars), SIPs,

Luxury Car (> 1Cr), House (> 20 Cr)

Influencer

College/School Friends,

Colleagues

College/School Friends,

Colleagues

Other Family Offices

Blockers

Friends (Frugal), Parents

Partner, Parents

Patriarchs

Financial

Aspirations

  1. Wealth Creation
  2. Make money quickly
  3. Build Passive Income
  4. Want to not work for money
  1. Wealth Creation for next gen
  2. Build Passive Income
  3. Medium Risky assets
  1. Wealth creation for next gen
  2. Earn higher returns on the portfolio
    but can not lose the principal

Pain Points

  1. Limited investing opportunities

besides equity markets

  1. Want to invest in Fixed income

securities but only have Fixed

Deposits to invest which yield low

returns (barely) beat inflation

  1. Have high risk taking appetite
    but don't have a platform through
    which they can invest
  2. Looking for avenues to build

Passive Income

  1. Financial investments are tricky
    to understand. Requires a lot of
    effort and hence, prefer seeking
    advise from family/friends
  1. Limited investing opportunities

besides equity markets

  1. Want to invest in Fixed income

securities but only have Fixed

Deposits to invest which yield low

returns (barely) beat inflation

  1. Looking for avenues to build

Passive Income

Hates paper work. Finds it
difficult to track investments.
Requires a lot of effort and
hence, prefer seeking advise
from family/friends

  1. Broken and Opaque Experience

Traditionally, driven by Bankers,

experience is fragmented and

opaque, monitoring, and exiting

fixed-income instruments.


  1. Illiquid Alternative Investments

Investment in Alternate Investments

exposure, is primarily through

PE/VC - often suffer from illiquidity,

opacity and difficulty in driving exits.

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  1. Cashflow Challenges

Despite FOs having large corpuses,

investments in traditional asset

classes, such as equity and

commodities, can create

cashflow issues for FOs

How do they

invest?

  1. Fin-fluencers
  2. Friends
  3. Colleagues
  4. Family (Parents)
  5. Independent Research
  1. CA
  2. Fin-fluencers
  3. Wealth Manager
  4. Colleagues
  5. Friends
  6. Brokerage: Research Reports
  7. CNBC / Zee Businesss
  1. In-House Investment Team
  2. Cocktail Conversations
  3. Independent Research: Newsletters
  4. Friends
  5. Wealth Manager
  6. Treasury head of business
  7. Brokerage: Research Reports
  8. CNBC / Zee Businesss

JBTD

Primary - Earn higher returns on the

investment

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Secondary - Build passive income

& Increase diversification of portfolio

Primary - Earn higher returns on the

investment

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Secondary - Build passive income

& Increase diversification of portfolio

Primary - Earn higher risk adjusted

returns on the portfolio

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Secondary - Solve for cashflow

needs

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Power / Core / Casual

Engagement

Particulars

Power

Core

Casual

#Investment / year

40

10

3

INR Investment / year

>20,00,000

5,00,000 - 20,00,000

< 2,00,000

INR Avg ticket size of investment

1,00,000

75,000

10,000

Power / Core / Casual

  1. Frequency: Primary
    One of the primary JBTD for Jiraaf is to establish habit of investing. Since Jiraaf is a new platform, it has to first win the trust of the consumer (investor). By focussing on frequency of investments made, the user will experience multiple "aha" moments in the form of returns earned through principal and interest re-payments. Multiple delightful experience will result in building trust through earning returns and also, establish habit of investing
  2. Breadth: Secondary
    By increasing the avenues of opportunities of fixed income securities, the user will have higher chance of investing. Currently, there are 4-7 opportunities that are available for investing. If, there is a potential to increase this to 3x, then the consumer will have a larger pool of investable opportunities
  3. Depth: Secondary
    By investing a lot of money, the user is not going to get an incremental increase in value. Further, allocating a larger % of the liquid wealth to alternative investment assets can increase the risk and if there's a default, the user will lose trust and thereby, stop investing.

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C. Engagement

Engagement Campaign

1.Encourage User to Explore more

Define - Segmentation

type of user

Casual user

Goal of the campaign

Encourage user to explore and evaluate more

opportunities (Casual user to Core/Power User)

Breadth / Depth /

Frequency

Breadth

User Behaviour

  • Logs in for < 2 sessions a month
  • Historically invested but by spending very
    less time on the app
  • Does not open all opportunities

Marketing pitch?

Hey Hey! Did you miss checking out Captain

Fresh offering 15% return for a tenure of 60 Days?

Offer

Notification to the user to look at the

opportunities that they missed evaluating

Channel

App Notification and Email

Frequency and Timing

Every time user logs out from a session for

3 months

Success Metric

Increased "Browsed to Invest Now" ratio

Rational

User is not spending enough time on the platform

but the user has transacted. Owing to low attention,

the user might get distracted and hence, not invest.

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2.Webinar explaining the deals on the platform

Define - Segmentation

type of user

Casual user

Goal of the campaign

Webinar explaining the deals on the platform

(Casual user to Core/Power User)

Breadth / Depth /

Frequency

Depth

User Behaviour

  • User has an inclination to invest but finds the
    process complex
  • Some types of securities are very new and
    user doesn't know how to evaluate
  • User has explored the documents of the deal
    but hasn't invested yet

Marketing pitch?

Want to learn more about Captain Fresh and the

Corporate Bond instrument? Come join us for an

exclusive webinar on June 29 at 10am to learn more.

Offer

Notification to the user to look at the

opportunities that they missed evaluating

Channel

App Notification and Email

Frequency and Timing

3 times a week:

1st: Monday at 3.00pm

2nd: Thursday at 3.30pm

3rd: Saturday at 3.00pm

Success Metric

  • #Users registered for the webinar
  • #Users attended the webinar
  • #Users engaged with webinar (Comments & Poll)
  • #Users invested

Rational

User is interested in investing with the platform but

finds it difficult to evaluate. The users has doubts and

questions about the deals and doesn't have enough

information to invest. With a Webinar, the user can

understand the opportunity and get questions answered

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3.Dedicated Senior RM to Power user

Define - Segmentation

type of user

Core User

Breadth / Depth /

Frequency

Depth

Goal of the campaign

Having a dedicated Senior RM to core user

(Core user to Power User)

User Behaviour

  • User has made a few investments with the platform and
    have made good returns with the platform
  • They have either only invested in safer corporate bonds
    or very risky assets.
  • They need hand-holding in expanding this portfolio

Marketing pitch?

We value your commitment to Jiraaf's platform and are
pleased to announce an exciting upgrade to
enhance your investing journey on our platform.

To provide you with more personalised support and
guidance, we are introducing a dedicated Relationship
Manager (RM) for your account.


Your RM will be available to assist you with tailored
investment advice, portfolio management, and any
inquiries you may have.

Offer

A designated senior RM that will stay in touch with the

user and deeply understand their financial needs. Basis

the risk appetite, liquidity constraints and tenure comfort,

the RM will assist in a tailored Investment Plan.

Channel

Whatsapp by RM and Email

Frequency and Timing

Once a Quarter as per the Power User's availability

Success Metric

  • AUM / User
  • AUM retention
  • Time spent on the platform
  • #Opening/Delivery ratio of the CTA on emails /
    Notification

Rational

User has had comfort in investing and trusts the Jiraaf

Platform. Having an RM for the user will solve for the
Personal and Functional JBTD of the user. Having an
RM will help them in improving the investing experience
with curated investment advise.

4.AMA anything sessions once a month

Define - Segmentation

type of user

Casual user

​Breadth / Depth /

Frequency

Frequency

Goal of the

campaign

Webinar explaining the deals on the platform

(Casual user to Core/Power User)

User Behaviour

  • User has an inclination to invest but finds the
    investing process complex
  • Trust for the user has not been established. This type
    of investing is new for the user
  • User doesn't know how to explore the platform
    and evaluate deals

Marketing pitch?

Did you know that you could generate greater returns

alongside Equity and Gold by reducing risk on your

portfolio? Come join us for an exclusive webinar with

the founders of Jiraaf on June 29 at 10am to learn more.

Offer

A free exclusive webinar for the user to get a chance

to learn about investing

Channel

App Notification and Email. Alert-box on the app

Frequency and

Timing

Webinar to happen once a month on First Saturday at 11am.

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Notifications: 2 times a week:

1st: Monday at 4.00pm

2nd: Thursday at 4.30pm

Success Metric

  • #Users registered for the webinar
  • #Users attended the webinar
  • #Users engaged with webinar (Comments & Poll)
  • #Users invested

Rational

User is interested in investing with the platform but does

not know how to invest in fixed income securities. Trust needs

to establish for the user. By getting a chance to speak to the

founders of Jiraaf, trust gets established and the user gets

an opportunity to learn about Fixed Income investing.

5.Exclusive networking opportunities and events


Define - Segmentation

type of user

Power user


​Breadth / Depth /

Frequency

Depth


Goal of the

campaign

Appease the Power user and enable them to invite 2 (referral)


User Behaviour

  • User is a power user and is frequently investing with the
    platform
  • User is trying to meet likeminded folks and network
  • User wants to introduce Jiraaf to their friends and want to
    look and feel "valued" / "cool"


Marketing pitch?

We are delighted to invite you to an exclusive networking
event for our top investors. Join us for an evening of
insightful discussions and connections.

Date: [Event Date]
Time: [Event Time]
Venue: [Event Venue]

You are welcome to bring up to two guests with you.

We look forward to seeing you there!


Offer

Networking event.


Channel

Whatsapp and Email. RM Call (if not RSVPd)


Frequency and

Timing

Networking event once in 6 months


Success Metric

  • Ratio of Users/Invitees registered for the event
  • #Users registered for the event
  • #Users attending events
  • #Guests (Referrals) being RSVPd
  • Investment by Referral to the platform


Rational

User is a power user and has frequently invested with the
Jiraaf platform. The user wants to meet with like-minded

folks coming from a similar socio-economic class. The

user also has friends and want to introduce their friends

to the Jiraaf platform. Inviting in a networking event will solve
for their Social JBTD and potentially, bring in high quality

referrals.


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D. Retention

Retention Design

  • 1. Draw the retention curve and at what point does the retention curve flatten?
    Post 10+ Conversations with users, the following is my hypothesis for the Retention Curve:

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  • Since the product is an investment and has very limited breadth in terms of the use case, the right way to look at retention will be to look at it on a monthly basis.
    • In a given time, there are 8-12 investment opportunities and on an average, there are 2-4 new opportunities added every month.
    • As per 10 + conversations, I have plotted the above Retention Curve. The Retention curve starts to flatten within the second month itself since the delight is very high once the user starts receiving principal and/or interest re-payments.
    • Most of the investment opportunities have repayment frequency of quarterly payments and hence, after 2 quarters (or 6 months), we seem to see the curve being flattened.
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  • 2. Which ICPs drive the best retention?
    Post 10+ Conversations with users, the following is my hypothesis: ICP 2 > ICP 1 > ICP 3
    • ICP 2 drives the highest retention because they have high disposable income, understand the benefits of building a portfolio that has multi asset exposure. They are usually very busy and once, the trust is built, they have a high likelihood of retaining. Also, important to note that they are not very big where they will get good wealth managers to give them access to good fixed income products.
    • ICP 1 are one of the lowest hanging fruits as they have more time, lesser responsibilities, are inquisitive and have high risk taking appetite. They have a lower likelihood of retaining vis-a-vis ICP 2 as
      1. Their curiosity will lead them to exploring the competitors
      2. Figuring out career: higher likelihood of losing their current job
      3. Mostly single/unmarried. Post marriage, income to invest will come down.
    • ICP 3 are the least likely to retain because they have multiple Investment Bankers and Wealth Managers chasing them to invest with them. They have much higher access to investable options and hence, unless there is a strong RM connect or exclusive deals, their likelihood to invest through Jiraaf will be low.

  • 3. What channels drive users that retain better?
    Post 10+ Conversations with users, the following is my hypothesis:
    • Mails
      Conversion will seem to happen the highest on mails on a laptop since the evaluation documents are lengthy.
    • RM Call
      Users respond to an RM call or if they are busy they ask the RM to call back at another time of convenience
    • In-App Notifications
      Notifications being sent out by the app.
    • Whatsapp
      The user spends a lot of time on whatsapp and hence, messages on whatsapp are easy to read and not miss.

  • 4. Sub-Products?
    The app has no Sub-Products.

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Churn: Voluntary / Involuntary

Reason

Category

Negative Actions

Not enough opportunities

to invest

Voluntary

  • Trying going down on the app
    to look for investments

Default on investment

Voluntary

  • Support tickets
  • Negative conversations with RM
  • Bad reviews on Google/iOS store
    / Play store

Minimum ticket size for

investment is high

Voluntary

  • Spending time evaluating
    opportunities without investing
  • Historically invested in lower
    ticket size transactions

Started investing with

Competitor

Voluntary

  • Highlighted to RM that the
    competitor have better
    product mix

Bad/complex experience

of investing

Voluntary

  • Browsed multiple investment
    opportunities and evaluated
    but dropped off

Better returns in other

asset classes

Voluntary

  • Reduced session time and
    reduced # sessions

Bad experience with RM

Voluntary

  • Support tickets & mails

Death

Involuntary

  • > 85% reduction in activity
  • No response to RM calls

Loss of Job

Involuntary

  • Reduced activity on the app
  • Explaining to RM

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Resurrection Campaigns


1.Default on investment

Context

Default has happened for the user

Goal of the campaign

Rebuild the trust with the user

Focus ICP

All ICPs

Marketing pitch?

We regret to inform you that one of the securities on our

platform has defaulted. We understand the concern and

frustration this may cause and deeply apologize for the

inconvenience.


In our commitment to transparency and

support, we are hosting a webinar where our CEO will

address the situation in detail, share the learnings, and

discuss the steps we are taking to prevent such

occurrences in the future.

Offer

Get the CEO of Jiraaf to address the users that lost

money

Channel

Email and Whatsapp

Frequency and Timing

Proactively communicate whenever a default happens.

Success Metric

INR and # of Investments

Rational

User is disappointed as they lost money. Proactive

communication and taking questions from the users

instills a sense of sincerity.

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2.Better returns in Other Asset Classes

Context

Users believe that earning potential is higher by just

investing in Equity / Commodity markets. They are

unaware of the portfolio risk by over-indexing on

just one asset

Goal of the campaign

Educate the user about:

  1. Perils of over-indexing on one asset class
  2. How to build a Portfolio to earn higher risk adjusted
    returns

Focus ICP

All ICPs

Marketing pitch?

Are you at risk by just investing in equity markets?

Offer

Free exclusive webinar on building a portfolio being

led by a leading CIO of a Prominent Family Office

Channel

App, Whatsapp and Mail

Frequency and Timing

Once a Quarter

Success Metric

  • #Registrations and Registration:Invite Ratio
  • INR and # of Investments for those that attended
    the webinar

Rational

User is unaware on the risks of over-indexing on

one asset class. This has substantial risk to the

portfolio and the webinar should seek to play on to

this fear of losing capital. By proposing a solution

to educate the user on building a portfolio.

3.Minimum Ticket Size investment

Context

Opportunities to Invest have high ticket size which is

not feasible for the user

Focus ICP

ICP 1: Young Adult

Goal of the campaign

  1. Get the user to invest in the securities
  2. Explore the platform for more opportunities

Marketing pitch?

Invest as low as INR 1,000 and earn 15%

Offer

Opportunity to invest for a very limited time!

Channel

App and Whatsapp

Frequency and Timing

  • Two notifications on App
  • One message on Whatsapp

Success Metric

INR and # of Investments

Rational

User is disappointed as they lost money. Proactive

communication and taking questions from the users

instills a sense of sincerity.

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4.Bad user experience

Context

The user downloaded the app but wasn't able to

navigate and understand the process of investing.

The investment documents had a lot of documents

with jargons.

Focus ICP

ICP 1 and ICP 2

Goal of the campaign

Get the user to understand the investing process

Marketing pitch?

Confused much? Don't worry bud, we got you!

Click here to block a 10 min call with your RM now.

Offer

Speak to a RM to help you with investing. Jiraaf

invests 0.5% on behalf of the user when on phone.

This will increase the return for the user.

Channel

App and Whatsapp

Frequency and Timing

  • Two notifications on App
  • One message on Whatsapp

Success Metric

  • Avg time / sessions and # sessions
  • INR and # of Investments

Rational

User is confused and unaware about Fixed Income

Investing. Education in the form of FAQs or reaching

out to an RM should help them.

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5.Investing with Competitor

Context

The user is investing with competitor

Focus ICP

All ICPs

Goal of the campaign

Get the user to start investing with Jiraaf

Marketing pitch?

We miss you! Enjoy 0% fees for 6 months with us.

Come back and grow with Jiraaf!

Offer

Offer investing for no charges for the next 6 months

Channel

App and Whatsapp

Frequency and Timing

  1. Weekly: Once a week on Friday in the afternoon
    between 3 and 5 pm
  2. Do it for 4 weeks
  3. Start from 1st / 2nd week of the month

Success Metric

INR and # of Investments

Rational

No cost will make it attractive for the user to invest

with Jiraaf since it will make the returns effectively

higher.


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