The
retail industry is on a boom, Indian retail business is now standing
tall at about 3 billion dollars; Snapdeal is no doubt one of the
biggest players in the space, and a very promising one.
While
the market is hot, the focus is shifting now towards making the
purchase happen on mobile apps, the e-tailers are even doing
campaigns to make sure that people buy using mobile apps, Amazon for
example offers special discounts if you buy using their application,
even the sales are targeted towards a certain platform only.
Snapdeal
-
The
mobile application is at par with other competitors, with features
like “shake to get exclusive offers”
I
like to do my teardowns of any app on certain criterias like
1.
Engagement - Knowledge – Competitors and User
2.
Disengagement & Why ?
Engagement
-
One
of the most important part of any e-tailer application is to keep a
pointer in the mind of its users that whenever they want to buy
something “snapdeal” is the app they should be going to, Its a
tough thing to do given that there are too many distractions in a
user's
life and too much competition, if your engagement message is wrongly
targeted or even badly timed , it may be of no use to the customers,
in fact the problem boils down to the fact that does the e-tailer
know what his customer is intending to buy next.
For
the online sales a bigger chunk of this problem was solved by
facebook and google, they look at your internet traffic, your likes
and shares and deduce what category of products you might be
interested in, the retailers do the campaign of their ads and the
relevant ones are shown to the relevant category of people.
But
when it comes to mobile, a user is living in a silo, he may be
doesn't even have an account with your mobile app and never bought a
thing from you before so you don't even know his buying profile, and
hence you (e-tailer) will suggest everything you can to him on your
app, on the first day your app is blind, your app will remain blind
until the day your user makes a move and buys something or browses
something atleast.
What
come out from the above discussion is
- “Knowledge” about your user
- Knowledge about his interests, what he likes and what he/she is really into these days.
The
next big thing to know of is Competitors, which is vital to know but
how to ? remains a question, what if the user is a total Flipkart
buff, buys everything from Flipkart, does/should Snapdeal go an extra
mile to convert him? Well I leave this question to them but do they
know about the presence of their competitor in the user's phone, I
doubt that.
Lets
assume that we know the user, atleast what you present to user as the
first experience
will differ user to user; A hardcore gamer should see the listing of
game titles rather than some ads selling mixer grinders,although
mixer grinder ads may make more sense to a homemaker.
Bringing
the user back in the loop is a hard thing to do, you got to keep
making a pointer in the mind of user at “subtle” timings that
“Our app is around for you”, one of the most used engagement
model is sending interesting push notifications, make your users
aware of sales and interesting events in your business, but the model
is over-used now, infact the pushes are boring, people just swipe
them off in morning, they just pop up at wrong times and with wrong
deals; What do I have to do with a sale of sarees while I am a gamer,
newsbuff, moviebuff, and a shopaholic. I never bought a saree in my
life being a male, so you see “Engagement” is no more “send a
Push Notification everyday” game , its much bigger than that, there
are 100s of apps in each phone, whoever bugs too much is going to get
un-installed, If I am a 25 yr old boy and you show me push
notification of a sale of Ladies Kurties – I am not interested, I
may be interested if you push a notification for a sale on Men's
shoes; knowing your user is half the game won.
Usually
I get Snapdeal notifications on very odd times, however one of these
days the most popular sale was on its way, it was everywhere in
newspapers and TV but no Push in the morning at 8 AM when it was
about to start; I do get a push at evenings sometimes which I hardly
entertain and I just swipe through, a normal hit ratio for e-tailers
in push notifications is about 1% may
be even less than that,
the game is not to drive sales by push but to put that pointer in the
mind of users.
The
snapshot given below is of a notification promoting a music app,
while the phone user is strictly a no-music person, and sitting at
his office, the promotion should rather be focused towards music
lovers.
While this
is what facebook is suggesting me to buy
“Muscletech”
- which is a protein supplement, purely because i read about keeping
myself active, but does snapdeal knows about this? Perhaps not, and
they won't.
Here
is an example screenshot which I imagined for a female homemaker
using the snapdeal app, powered with knowledge of contexts.
Having
a context knowledge of each user locally with api's could eleviate
this to a lot of extent, you show the relevant categories of products
and you push the right notifications at the righr time to your users
to make better chances of them buying the products or atleast to make
that cue in their minds about your products.
Disengagement
– An app developer may never know when a particular user decided to
stop using the app. Disengagement is inevitable, its bound to happen
with any application, the game is to get installs, make sure people
use your application (engagement), and after a certain period of time
the disengagement starts happening and it could be for various
reasons – May be your new versions are not stable enough, your push
notifications are on wrong time in wrong context, worse your
advertisements are not well targeted, your customer support sucks big
time it could be any of the reasons, and while finding out who came
on network is easy finding out finding the un-installs is not, so
whoever stopped using your app is probabaly the dis-engaged one and
that's your only cue.
I
uninstalled the snapdeal app, and there seems to be no special push
or emails
to get me back in the game, Why ? Because they don't know it, had
they knew how much I spend usually and when exactly did I got
dis-engaged, they might have had an idea, simply an A/B test of
finding out un-installations since last version update and what
version your users were running when they un-installed is vital to
know for finding the answer to “why did they un-installed ?”.
So you see
you can't just stay
CRUD for e-commerce, the game is evolving, so evolve, now is the best
time.
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