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Concrete garden will help anyone who has limited space to build a garden or is inexperienced in caring for plants to improve the quality of their life and space using our application that will act as your own digital gardener.

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  • the number of older people who garden has a stable percentage (35%), but the number of young people who get involved in this activity has reached its peak
  • the average household spent from $53 to almost $100 in 2017
  • young gardeners buy knowledge
  • gardening in Croatia predominates in rural areas, urban gardening is becoming increasingly popular[1]

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Gardening

Source: Gardening Reaches an All Time High

Pictures taken from google

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We noticed that

Life in the city

noisy, polluted, overcrowded with people

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Unhealthy diet[2]

Insufficient knowledge about plant care

Lack of time for education about plants

Lack of space in apartments

Low-quality fruits and vegetables in stores

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  • Garden Answers Plant Identifier[3]
    • enables plant recognition with a camera, searching and saving plants
    • contains 200,000 frequently asked questions and answers about gardening

Competition

  • SmartPlant[4]
    • identification of plants by experts
    • plant care information, plant search, disease and pest identification, plant organization, finding new places for plants in your home

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  • modified notification sending that depends on the data that the application would pull from the weather forecast

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  • for example, it would send a notification when it was hot, so if we water more often or put away our outdoor plants if there is a storm coming
  • tips on how to make the most efficient use of the given space
  • news about the latest climate change and how to contribute to improving the health of our planet

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Business model

Cooperation with the Botanical Institute of the University of Science and Mathematics in Zagreb for the purpose of building a database for plants.

Partnerships with online stores for mutual promotion (PlantHouse[5], iGrow[6]).

The application is free, but contains ads, there is a premium version (12.99 kn) in which there are many more options for personalization, premium does not contain ads,

Initial expenses: family and friends

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  • they live in the city and its surroundings
  • the desire to grow their own products, people who want to make the space greener, contribute to the reduction of climate change

Research methods

  • poll

User segmentation

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Age

Would you take up gardening as a new hobby?

Yes

No

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What is your knowledge in plant care?

How much space do you have for a garden?

I have a yard

I have a balcony

I have a spare room

I have a free wall

I don't have room

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Andrea Horvat

  • she is not satisfied with the quality of fruits and vegetables in stores
  • she tried to start her own garden, but it didn't work out
  • wants people to be more considerate when it comes to the environment
  • she wants to have her own garden, but she doesn't know where to start, she wants to avoid the mistakes she made last time
  • follows people like Rachel Aust[7] and The Plant Room[8] on social networks
  • she wants to be sure that we have all the information she needs to enjoy planting and taking care of her garden

User persona

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User activities

User goals

Touch points

Experience

Business objective

KPIs

Customer journey map – Awareness

Follows trends on social networks.

Instagram, TikTok, Facebook.

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Gardening as a source of productivity as well as relaxation. Aesthetically beautifully decorated space.

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Incite to action.

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We encouraged 15% of visitors.

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Customer journey map – Consideration

Is there space and time for a garden? Education.

Blog, website.

Time management. Assessing which medium is the most practical and which sources are confidential.

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Guarantee the user that our solution is the best option for them.

To cooperate with 5 largest online media for the purpose of promotion.

Ciljevi korisnika

User activities

User goals

Touch points

Experience

Business objective

KPIs

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Customer journey map – Decision

Putting trust in one platform.

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Blog, websites, apps.

Looking for the credibility of the platform.

Want to use the chosen medium with ease.

Present our experts. Keep the user on the platform as long as possible.

Average use of the application for 2 months or more, after that occasional use.

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User activities

User goals

Touch points

Experience

Business objective

KPIs

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Customer journey map – Delivery & Use

Buying necessary things, organizing the garden, planting process.

Garden centers, online delivery, application (tips).

Buying things that are affordable and of good quality.

Aesthetically pleasing appearance of the space. Enjoying the space.

Promotion of partners' products, providing adequate information, facilitating the planting process for the user.

Minimize delivery time.

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User activities

User goals

Touch points

Experience

Business objective

KPIs

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Customer journey map – Loyalty & Advocacy

Buying more plants, sharing experience, if there is a problem they contact us.

Email, chat

Social networks.

A garden with sufficient harvest, gifting acquaintances with their crop.

To reduce the risk of user failure, the user shares his harvest on social networks and promotes us along the way.

80% of satisfied users

3% of new users.

Ciljevi korisnika

User activities

User goals

Touch points

Experience

Business objective

KPIs

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Marketing strategy

A person who wants to grow their own organic vegetables

Enjoy the quality and rich produce with our help!

To influencers (Mile Butorac), we deliver a PR package with a QR code of our application and a small plant.

Users visit our site with a link they received from an influencer and receive a discount.

To take advantage of the discount, register with an e-mail address. They download the app.

The possibility of collecting points depends on how active he is and how many articles he reads.

For example:

100 points = free plant

When using the application, everything is easily accessible and easy to follow. The possibility of personalizing the profile.

We offer quality products from our partners. We are sending an inquiry if there have been any problems. We solve that and offer discounts.

Users share their urban garden through social networks. If they persuade someone to use our app, they get points.

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Marketing strategy

A beginner in plant care

All the information you need in one place.

The user searches the Internet with the purpose of learning. The title "10 plants that thrive anywhere" appears on his search engine. This takes him to our site.

The user reads our posts, for some of them he has to register using e-mail, he has the option of subscribing to the newsletter.

He gives us his e-mail address, and we offer him discounts on purchases.

He downloads the app for further advice. It starts with collecting points.

When using the application, everything is easily accessible and easy to follow. The possibility of personalizing the profile.

We offer quality products from our partners. We are sending an inquiry if there have been any problems. We solve that and offer discounts.

Users share their urban garden through social networks. If they persuade someone to use our app, they get points.

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Garden centers with an online store

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  • they are not in high demand when it comes to selling flowers
  • help in informing the customer would make their job easier
  • they would profit from higher demand
  • online stores want to have customers' trust in their delivery
  • suppliers and deliveries
  • customer confidence, increase in sales
  • they want to know if this cooperation will be beneficial for them

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User persona

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Customer journey map – Awareness

Monitoring trends, customer satisfaction.

Analytics, feedback.

Increase in sales, customer confidence.

Promotion, increase downloads of our application.

5 new users per month.

User activities

User goals

Touch points

Experience

Business objective

KPIs

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Customer journey map – Consideration

Which model would be the most effective?

Advertising models available

Save with an efficient way of promotion.

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Save with an efficient way of promotion.

Adequate business model

User activities

User goals

Touch points

Experience

Business objective

KPIs

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Customer journey map – Decision

Alliance with another brand.

Marketing

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Efficient business,

Win-win situation.

Efficient business,

Win-win situation.

Contract for half a year.

User activities

User goals

Touch points

Experience

Business objective

KPIs

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Customer journey map – Delivery & Use

They hand out

our brochures at the cash desks.

Sales, advertising, analytics.

We promote their products in the app.

Greater number of app downloads, partner satisfaction.

5 new users per month, feedback.

Dodirne točke

User activities

User goals

Touch points

Experience

Business objective

KPIs

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Customer journey map – Loyalty & Advocacy

Collaborate again.

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Marketing

Increase in sales, customer confidence.

Collaborate again.

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The goal of increasing app downloads has been reached.

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Iskustvo

User activities

User goals

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Experience

Business objective

KPIs

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Marketing strategy

Garden centers with an online store

Let's make the world greener!

Email offers

Telephoning

We put all the reasons in the e-mail message in order to reach a win-win situation quickly, efficiently and with minimal costs through partnership.

With our statistics, we convince our partners that they will be able to achieve even better results with our help.

We promote their products in the app, they in turn hand out our brochures at checkout or our banners are on their pages.

We honor our agreement.

We offer further cooperation to partners.

At various seminars, our company creates a positive image, an opportunity for further partnerships.

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Thank you!�Q&A

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Lea Novak

Concrete garden

Informatics

Electronic business

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