USER ACQUISITION

CASE STUDY

FILLIP

OBJECTIVE

Acquire 400 users before year end (Q4 2019)

The challenge of user acquisition changes from project to project. There are times where finding the audience is the biggest barrier, others its ad budget, however, in the case of Fillip neither was a barrier. Instead, our focus was targeting the specific geo-location of their audiences.

AUDIENCES

Legitimizing the app was an important step and therefore, aligning our visuals & language with the barriers FILLIP was removing and showcasing ease of use, was at the heart of our strategy.

To do this we created 3 audiences;

  • • Blue Collar
  • • White Collar
  • • Couples

Each of these was broken down into WIN, NEED & WANT and then further still into gender which helped define how we spoke. We then geo-located the gas stations using postal codes and matched each ad to specific regions so that blue collar ads were going to more blue collar areas etc..

This proved extremely beneficial as we saw not only engagement on the posts but also traffic being led to our landing page.

DESIGN

Building our audiences is generally our first step with any strategy, the second most important step is creating content that matches each audience segments values and aesthetic.

With Fillip’s audience personas in place, building the creative (photography) and designing their standard is what you see below.

This meant branding and simplifying the creative so the focus was on our messaging.

RESULTS

Our budget wasn’t large, only $2000 for the month and our timeline was indeed 30 days, so driving traffic was our foremost objective.

From there, we needed the allure of the app itself to speak to users. Much like leading a horse to water but not being able to force it to drink.

What we discovered week after week was which demographic had ‘saving money’ as their greatest value, and that was blue collar.

Couples and white collar considered the app to be more about convenience than savings, therefore, the Call-To-Action needed to change for them and not include references to $aving, but to said convenience.

Industry Standard for App User Acquisition = $15.00/ user

DAYS

30

CLICKS

2708

USERS ACQUIRED

434

ROI

$4.60 ea.

Integrating Octopus & Son into our national marketing strategy was incredibly smooth. Their willingness to adapt and share organizational & creative processes with such transparency helped build trust immediately. I went from fretting an external team to seeing them as one of our own, not something you get often.
Ryan Grant
Marketing Manager- The WORKS & South Street Burger

MOST ENGAGED

65.3%

Week 1

  • Ad Budget Spend = $500
  • Lead Ads = 3
  • Most Successful Ad = Blue Collar
  • Link Clicks = 313
  • Users Acquired = 104
  • ROI = $4.80/ user
  • Industry Standard for App User Acquisition = $15.00/ user

What we discovered week after week was which demographic had ‘saving money’ as their greatest value, and that was blue collar. Couples and white collar considered the app to be more about convenience than savings, therefore, the Call-To-Action needed to change for them and not include references to $aving, but to said convenience.

Our final metrics were:

  • Ad Budget Spend = $2000
  • Lead Ads = 3
  • Most Successful Ad = Blue Collar
  • Link Clicks = 2708
  • Users Acquired = 434
  • ROI = $4.60/ user
  • Industry Standard for App User Acquisition = $15.00/ user

 

  • 450 users acquired
  • Strategy for specific geo-located ads
  • Design standard
  • Brand recognition
  • Likes | 662
  • Comments | 2,484
  • Impressions | 136
  • Shares | 136
  • IG Saves | 38
  • Engagement Rate | FB 65.3% – IG 21.5%

HIGHEST REACH

27,061

MOST SHARES

136

CONCLUSION

We spent 16 months supporting South Street Burger’s National endeavours on social media and within that time, maintained a consistent upward momentum towards all our KPI’s, that of Engagement & Followers.

We part ways having created a benchmark of success for one of MTYGroup’s great brands.