CleverTap engage: CMO podcast

Gamification and personalization: how Acorns achieves 99% retention


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Can you imagine mobile user retention of 99%? For most mobile marketers and developers, that’s fantasy land. Most who are struggling to boost engagement and retention have 10-20% user retention after a month, if they’re lucky.

While it’s true fintech is a unique space, Acorns CMO James Moorhead reveals how he uses segmentation, gamification, and a sophisticated messaging and CRM strategy to fully engage every user and achieve almost unheard-of user retention numbers.


We also discuss:

The biggest hurdle with getting users to engage

How to give users tiny hits of dopamine to boost retention

The best way to manage pricing

How segmentation impacts product: your in-app experience

The leaky bucket

Treating individuals individually

The importance of real-time feedback

Granular customer journey mapping

And more ...


“CleverTap Engage” is a video interview series featuring the globe’s most respected CMOs and executives, shining a light on how to achieve meaningful and memorable customer engagement. The series is co-hosted by Peggy Anne Salz and John Koetsier.


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CHAPTER TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Identifying customer pain points

1:47 James Morehead, CMO of Acorns

4:30 Growth of fintech

5:58 Engagement & loyalty

8:43 Gamification

11:06 Personalization & dopamine hits

13:01 Pricing & transparency

14:25 Segmentation

16:32 Mobile user retention

18:52 Mobile CRM and personalization

21:09 Metrics of growth

23:20 Customer journey mapping

24:53 Be our next guest


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CleverTap engage: CMO podcastBy John Koetsier & Peggy Anne Salz