A Customer-Centric Search for Triggers as a Basis for Marketing Automation Service Design

This B2C case is about Houzy, a startup and free landlord platform based in Zurich. We used the five trigger sources approach to identify relevant triggers and a gap analysis to create new service design ideas. Our study shows that the five trigger sources approach works well for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with limited data and resources. We found numerous triggers that generate behavior changes in customers, and we derived service design ideas from triggers not yet addressed by Houzy services.