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Part 1 of our series on Mobile Marketing Strategies for Fintech Brands
Never have more people in more countries relied on finance apps to manage their lives and plan their futures. The increase in consumer dependency on fintech and insurtech apps for assistance and advice at every step of the journey opens opportunities for a new breed of finance companies that pivot to be a lifeline for their customers. And the stakes are higher than ever because digital-only has become the new norm for financial services.
To grasp this opportunity, marketers must cultivate the tools and talent to deliver right-time, real-time experiences and individualized messaging that is valuable and relevant. Communications at every stage must provide genuinely helpful (and human) advice.
More importantly, marketers should map what they say and how they say it to essential stages in the customer lifecycle. In the 2021 Rethink Fintech Playbook — the resource I wrote in collaboration with mobile analyst Peggy Anne Salz — I have identified four key stages and the actions marketers can take to drive positive outcomes for customers and their companies:
It’s a new lens through which you can view the customer journey and align your communications strategy and tactics with customer needs and expectations.
At this early stage in the journey, customers are new to the app and want assistance and advice at the moment of friction. It’s here that effective marketers excel through their ability to anticipate issues and pre-empt problems. They also succeed based on their data-formed ability to proactively suggest and recommend solutions and features to customers who are largely unaware of them and yet highly likely to benefit from them.
It’s all about approaches that reimagine onboarding to offer proactive education, communication, and care. A prime example is MOVii, a leading mobile wallet and challenger bank in Colombia, on a mission to encourage greater financial inclusion by providing products that allow customers to handle and move their money as simply as they use cash today.
The pathway is financial services that are accessible to, and understood by, everyone. This requires a new approach to education enabled by messaging that becomes the trusted tutor, according to Natalia Garcia Ocampo, MOVii CMO. In her view, the emphasis on education has profound implications for marketing organizations.
“Education has become a leading vertical inside the marketing team,” Garcia says. In practice, the team divides efforts between acquiring, engaging, and educating users according to their profile. “Improving and individualizing education is one of our main objectives right now.”
Using CleverTap has helped MOVii understand each customer’s journey and the segment that person falls into, Garcia says. Learning how users get into the app and what they are using it for in the first place allows MOVii to surface offers and information that add the most value at the critical moment. This also paves the way for occasional users to become high-value users loyal for the longer term, she says.
“Not everyone receives the same kind of information and messaging because not everyone needs the same kind of training,” Garcia explains. A big part of education is ensuring users get unstuck and get assistance when they encounter problems or simply have questions.
A prime example is the registration process, where the law requires customers to provide a selfie, proof of identity, and proof of address. It’s here that MOVii distills the data to see where users are getting stuck and sends a personalized push to help them continue in the funnel. This individualized approach to education, enabled by CleverTap, has allowed MOVii to reduce monthly churn by 82% — from 17% to 3% — and drive record numbers of mobile transactions.
“First, messaging needs to educate users to become familiar with features that help them achieve financial wellness.” Moving forward, she says, messaging needs to increase brand awareness and drive more transactions.
This requires learning of a different kind. It’s a scenario where MOVii is the student, learning from user behavior when the time has come to switch tactics. “We need to recognize the triggers that tell us our customers don’t need help using the app. And we need to know when users are ready to learn all the possibilities that are relevant and their situation so they can begin to live their financial life in the MOVii app.”
This is the first in our series, preparing fintech and finserv marketers to be fighting fit in 2022. The next in the series will look at how companies use models and methods to empower customers and deepen engagement.
You can download the 2021 Rethink Fintech Playbook here, which includes expert contributions from:
Rethink Fintech Playbook: 2021
