Predictive Marketing System for User Retention

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Solution Overview

Problem

Service providers face challenges in effectively targeting users with personalized marketing strategies due to reliance on time-based and event-based message handlers, which fail to determine the most viable pathways based on user-specific experiences, leading to inefficiencies in converting trial users and retaining subscribers.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a predictive modeling system that assesses individual user behavior and context to calculate propensity scores, which are then used to optimize marketing campaigns and personalize messaging, thereby improving conversion and retention rates by identifying scenarios most likely to reduce loss risk.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Extent of automation

If time-based and event-based message handlers are used for marketing, then marketing automation is achieved, but personalization and effectiveness are insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemarketing automationVSAvoidpersonalization capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Extent of automationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback loops by continuously monitoring user behavior data and using predictive analytics to adjust marketing strategies in real-time. User responses to marketing campaigns are fed back into the machine learning models to refine propensity scores and improve personalization accuracy, resolving the contradiction between automation and personalization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The marketing system transitions from static time-based triggers to dynamic behavior-based triggers. Propensity scores are continuously updated based on real-time user actions, allowing the system to adapt marketing messages dynamically to each user's current state, thereby achieving both automation and personalization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Productivity

If complex branching logic is created based on user behavior, then marketing pathways are optimized, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemarketing effectivenessVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system replaces manual complex branching logic with automated machine learning models. Instead of manually creating intricate decision trees based on marketer intuition, predictive analytics algorithms automatically analyze user behavior patterns and determine optimal marketing pathways, reducing system complexity while maintaining or improving effectiveness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The marketing system performs self-optimization through automated predictive modeling. The machine learning models independently analyze user data, identify behavioral patterns, and generate optimized marketing strategies without requiring manual intervention to create complex branching logic, thereby simplifying the system while enhancing productivity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Measurement precision

If user data is analyzed without relation to other users' experiences, then individual user understanding is achieved, but predictive accuracy decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser behavior understandingVSAvoidpredictive accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges individual user data with aggregated data from other users to improve predictive accuracy. By combining personal behavior patterns with population-level insights from similar users, the machine learning models achieve both precise individual understanding and reliable predictions through comparative analysis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses data from a broader user base than strictly necessary for individual analysis. By incorporating experiences from multiple users with similar behaviors, the system over-compensates for limited individual data, thereby improving predictive reliability while maintaining individual user understanding.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS11625737B2Contextual marketing system based on predictive modeling of users of a system and/or service
Publication Date: 2023.04.11 INTUIT INC
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AI summary

Predictive modeling within a special purpose hardware platform to determine scenarios that are most likely to increase conversion potential for each trial user and retention potential for each active subscriber of a service, collectively referred to as a propensity score. The predictive models are integrated with a contextual marketing system that uses a loss risk assessment to learn user behavior and optimize content messaging designed to improve actual conversion or retention behavior for the user.