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PERSONAL LIBRARIES WEEK 4 Customers & Users
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Your Feedback Evaluate market size Talk to more customers Get beyond Stanford
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Hypotheses & Findings Low activation & retention stems from poor discoverability, not wrong feature set Findings: Interviews confirmed that many users were confused / had to be taught how to use the product Action items: Must make it more obvious how to: Search PDFs Import PDFs Invite friends Update: Initial start screen optimizations complete The MVP of easily organizing papers is optimal (vs emphasizing citation) Findings: Researchers do like the idea of using this core feature set & would do so, if it were easier. Action items: Run AdWords campaigns to test best performing value props: “iTunes of PDFs” vs “Dropbox of research” vs “build your reputation”, etc. Question: Can we expand market to all PDF users? Users will invite others in exchange for higher paper limits Findings: Users want to collaborate on Peaya and are open to inviting friends, though somewhat reluctant to do so. Action items: Make “invite a friend” call-to- action more prominently displayed Offer “invite” or “pay” options at rate limit Update: 11 of signups this week were from friend invitations More info on our blog: http://factnote.com/c/e245
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Customer Interviews Feedback from >60 researchers cold calls, in-person interviews, and a web survey both Stanford and non-Stanford both current users and non-users >80% of respondents earn <40k in annual salary Top features: easy citations, easily access PDFs, tag papers to find later, and format references for target publication Less Attractive features: share papers with others, rate papers I’ve read “I want it to collect & organize my PDFs”
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Update: New Tutorials
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Search Volume endnote450,000 download endnote22,200 endnote software3,600 buy endnote590 zotero135,000 download zotero2,900 zotero plugin2,900 mendeley60,500 mendeley desktop4,400 reference management14,800 reference software12,100 citation management2,900 Total monthly711,890 Total yearly8,542,680
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Market Size Estimates 8.5M searches/year for relevant categories in Google Google 70% search share Suppose each “free endnote” search represents 1 in 200 users who obtain a new commercial license Thus, 1.2M new yearly purchases Suppose average sale price is $70 TAM: ~$84M Reference Managers 7.3M researchers 1/3 in biomed 20% are first author on publications 90% of those license Endnote Suppose average Endnote sale price is $70 TAM: ~$30M Wholesale book sales at about $24B annually eBook segment at about $0.5B and growing at over 100% -American Publisher’s Association TAM: ? BioMed Reference Manager PDF Organization & Tagging iTunes of Digital Content E Books: Biomed Endnote
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Next Week: More Customer interviews 2 nd Customer Survey AdWords Value Prop Testing Landing Page A/B Testing vs
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Competition
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