❓ Questions asked during user calls

📌
The Organization and the Team
 
  1. Can you please briefly summarize where you work and what your organization does?
  1. What is your role in the organization? What does your team structure look like?
  1. What is the process of buying software in your company? Who is involved and at which stage?
  1. Which other tools do you use on a day-to-day basis?
  1. Which Hotjar features do you find most valuable?
 
 
 
📌
Current State
 
  1. Currently, are you using any CRO/website analytics tools? Can you name them?
  1. What is your primary goal for using a website analytics tool like Hotjar?
  1. How frequently do you use a tool like Hotjar? How much time do you spend?
  1. Have you ever used Hotjar to identify and solve a specific problem on your website? If so, what was the problem, and how did you use Hotjar to solve it? (probe in the direction of outcomes - sign ups, conversions, customer journey etc.)
  1. Can you share an example of how Hotjar led to a significant improvement? How did you track the impact?

The Product

📌
Acquisition
 
  1. How did you first come to know about Hotjar?
  1. Were you evaluating any other products along with Hotjar? If yes, can you name these products?
  1. What was your process of evaluating these products? Which metrics were most important and why?
📌
Onboarding
 
  1. Do you remember your onboarding process? Was any Hotjar team member involved during your onboarding?
  1. How helpful were the onboarding resources (tutorials, guides, etc.) provided by Hotjar?
  1. What is your experience with customer support at Hotjar?
📌
Engagement and Retention
 
  1. What is the one feature in this tool you cannot live without?
  1. Who are the different profiles of users and what all do they use it for?
  1. What improvements or additional features would you like to see in Hotjar to better serve your needs?
  1. How do you plan to continue using Hotjar in the future, and what are your long-term goals for website optimization and analytics?
 
📌
Monetization
 
  1. Are you using any paid plan for Hotjar? Did you upgrade your pricing plan from an earlier version? (Eg: Basic to Observe Plus, etc)
  1. Did you ever upgrade/downgrade the plan? Why?
  1. (If a long-term user) What do you think about the changes in the product and pricing? How does it affect your usage?
 
 

🔔  User Insights

📌
Positives
 
  1. Hotjar is a popular go-to tool for qualitative analytics in the analytics space.
  1. Heatmaps and Recordings features which are a part of the “Observe” package is the most popular functionality used by Hotjar users
  1. Users have been able to achieve considerable growth by implementing learnings that they got from Observe functionality on their products.
  1. Users find the UI very user-friendly and easy to understand which lets them use the application with ease without much support.
  1. HotJar is a very popular tool across the analytics space and a lot of users consider Hotjar a one-stop-shop solution for behavioural analytics.
  1. The free plan offering is used by many freelancers and even organisations who want to experiment or try the tool before making upgrading to paid plans.
 
📌
Negatives
 
  1. “Why Hotjar when there is Clarity?” is a popular question in churned and non-user interactions. Clarity is a competitor tool that is available for FREE and hence Freelancers and small businesses gravitate towards Clarity.
  1. Hotjar is expensive for early-stage startups and freelancers.
  1. There is a direct technical dependency to integrate and/or customize Hotjar with the website.
  1. User Journeys from one page to another are not connected and hence user-specific analysis over the entire user journey is not possible.
  1. Hotjar does not support Standalone applications/mobile applications.
  1. Hotjar integration with Google Analytics is a pain.
  1. Customer Support is lacking in their core JTBD: It’s not supportive!
 
 

🕵️‍♀️ User Research

📞  User calling

 
User Name
Designation
User type (Casual/Core/Power)
Usage frequency
Duration
Features Used
Paid/ Free
Plan Type
Paid trial but did not continue
Churn
SMB/Start-up/MSME/Enterprise
Harsh Jain
Product Lead
Core
Daily
1-2 hours
Recordings and Heatmaps
Free
Trial then moved to free. Never paid
N
Startup
Suraj Lawand
Campaign Manager
Casual
Ad-hoc
Recordings and Heatmaps
Free
Free only
N
Agency
Sunil Neurgaonkar
Marketer
Casual
Weekly
1-2 hours
Recordings and Heatmaps
Free
Free only
Y
Funded Startup
Pooja Roy
Seo Growth
Power
Daily
1-2 hours
Recordings and Heatmaps
Paid
Observe Business
Paid
N
Startup
Saurabh Shirude
Growth & Marketing
Core
Daily
Recordings and Heatmaps
Free
Free
N
Startup
Sanmaya Biswas
Growth & Retention Manager
Core
Daily
1-2 hours
Recordings and Heatmaps
Free
Paid for 1 month then free
Y
Startup
Sanjana
Prouct Manager
Core
Weekly
1 hour
User Interviews
Paid
Observe Scale
Paid User
N
SMB
Abhinav Krishna
Associate Director Design
Daily
1 hour
Recordings, heatmaps, survey, feedback
Paid
Observe and Ask: Business
Paid User
N
Enterprise
KJ Gopika
Marketing and Partnerships
Casual
BiWeekly
2-3 hours
Recordings and Heatmaps
Free
Paid user, moved to free
Y
Funded Startup
Nishita Goyal
Senior product manager
Core
Weekly
2-3 hours a week
Recordings and Heatmaps
Free
Free to paid, moved back to free
Y
Funded Startup
Sneha Prabhu
Product marketing associate
Churned
Weekly
1 hour in a week
Recordings and Heatmaps
Free
Free only, switched to clarity
N
Funded Startup
Udayan Walvekar
Founder GrowthX
Churned
Daily
Recordings and Heatmaps
Paid
Observe Plus
Paid User, Churned
Y
Startup
Sarah Stritch
Marketing Manager
Casual
Quarterly
Once in 3 months
Recordings and Heatmaps
Free
Free only
N
Enterprise
Hitender Kumar
Asst Product Manager
Power
Daily
1-2 hours/day
Recordings and Heatmaps
Paid
Observe Plus
Paid User
N
SMB
Pranav Jain
Marketing Associate
Power
Monthly
3-4 hours , 1ce or 2ce a month
Recordings and Heatmaps
Paid
Observe Scale
Paid User
N
SMB
Navin Baid
Strategy & Ops
Churned
Daily
Recordings and Heatmaps
Free
Paid for 2 month then free, moved to quantum
Y
SMB
Yashsavi Amit
UX Writer
Core
Monthly
2-3 during the go-live of campaigns
Recordings and Heatmaps
Paid
Observe Plus
Paid User
N
MSME
Vatsala Mehra
Senior Product Designer
Core
Monthly
2-3 during go live of campaigns
Recordings and Heatmaps
Paid
Observe Business
Free to Paid
N
Enterprise
Sharad Saxena
Principal Software Consultant
Core
Weekly
2-3 a week
Recordings and Heatmaps
Free
N
MSME
Pragya Pande
Senior Platform manager.
Core
Weekly
30 mins - 1 hour
Recordings and Heatmaps
Paid
Observe Business
Paid User, Org Pays for it
N
Enterprise
Apoorva
Senior Business Manager
Power
Daily
30 mins - 1 hour
Recordings and Heatmaps
Paid
Observe Business
Paid User, Org Pays for it
N
Enterprise
Ajay Sharma
Freelance Digital Marketer
Core
Daily
1-2 hours
Recordings and Heatmaps
Free
Free only
N
Free Lancer
Mandeep Signh
Founder of Digital marketing firm
Power
Daily
2-3 hours
Recordings and Heatmaps
Paid
Observe Business
Paid User, Chruned and shifted to clarity
Y
Startup
Kiran Nair
Product Manager
Power
Daily
1-2 hours
Recordings ,Heatmaps and Surveys
Paid
Ask Plus
Paid User, Org Pays for it
N
MSME
Manhor
Digital Marketer
Casual
Weekly
3-4 times a month
Recordings and Heatmaps
Free
Free Only
N
SMB
Sagar Daliya
Founder/Operator
Core
Daily
Recordings and Heatmaps
Free
Free Only
N
Startup
Kapil Kumar
Digital Marketing Manager
Core
Weekly
4-6 hrs weekly
Recordings and Heatmaps
Paid
Observe Plus
Converted after trial
N
SMB
Abhishek Maurya
Software Developer
Casual
Weekly
1-2 times a week, 1/2-1 hr
Recordings and Heatmaps
Free
Free only
N
Start Up
Pooja Roy
Head of Marketing
Core
Daily
10-15 mins daily
Recordings and Heatmaps
Free
Free only
N
Start Up
Anil Thakur
Software developer
Casual
Once in month
Recordings and Heatmaps
Free
Free only
N
MSME
Agam Malviya
Founder/Operator
Power
Daily
Recordings and Heatmaps
Paid
Observe Scale
Paid User
N
Startup
Ravi Garg
Founder/CEO
Core
Daily
Surveys,Recordings and Heatmaps
Free
Free only , then churned
Y
Startup
Shree Roy
Product Markerter
Power
Daily
Recordings and Heatmaps
Paid
Observe Business
Paid User
N
Enterprise
Jerrin Joy
Founder
Casual
Weekly
Recordings and Heatmaps(tried survey but didnot find suitable for his use case)
Free
Free Only
N
Startup
 

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