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Applying JTBD to a Meal-Kit Subscription's Month-2 Churn
A meal-kit subscription service loses a large share of customers right after month 2. The team's persona — "Busy Professional, age 28-40, high income" — doesn't explain the pattern: some demographically identical 28-40 professionals stay subscribed for years, while others in the exact same bracket cancel right at month 2.
- Using Jobs-to-be-Done, what would you ask 8-10 canceling customers to uncover the underlying job, and what would you probe across its functional, emotional, and social dimensions?
- Referencing the core lesson of the milkshake study, explain why the current age/income persona fails to explain this churn pattern.
- Propose a plausible JTBD-based hypothesis for why churn concentrates at month 2, and explain how it would change the retention strategy compared to a persona-based approach like "target more busy professionals."
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