Bloom · B2C · learn-to-invest app for Gen Z
Test the headline free-stock reward at $40, $60 and $75
Amount barely changed subscriptions; $75 now being tested
What they did
What happened
- Stage
- growth
- Effort
- Several quarters of rotation
In their words
Jae Hwang - This App Makes $2M/Year With This Viral TikTok Strategy
Jae Hwang… understands that there's gamification and learning components, but they also know that there's a free stock. Uh And that's kind of a bait for users where if you sign up, you'll get a free stock instead of a free cash. And I think given that it's an investing app, instead of giving them free cash on their account, giving them stock actually helped us a lot to give them a long-term growth mindset. So this is uh At this point, we've used the same
Jae Hwanglike a subscription uh funnel for about two to three quarters now, which worked pretty well for us. We're changing around the numbers of dollars a little bit by I think $40 to $75 and $60, and changing around to see if that would impact our uh subscription uh which and it didn't as much. But right now it's at the highest of $75 and we're testing this out for this quarter and next quarter.
JosephThat's really interesting. So you're actually like giving users $75 just to just like sign up?
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Tags: ios, signup-incentive, offer-amount-test