Customer retention involves activities to reduce customer defections and keep existing customers. It is important because acquiring new customers is expensive, while loyal customers spend more and are less sensitive to price changes. Customer satisfaction, loyalty, and retention are connected, with satisfied customers becoming loyal and less likely to defect. To improve retention, companies should create a culture that generates buzz, build trust through consistency, make trust the most important factor, treat staff well so they treat customers well, and create transparency through an open dashboard.
2. What is Customer Retention?
Customer retention is the activity that a selling organization
undertakes in order to reduce customer defections.
Successful customer retention starts with the first contact an
organization has with a customer and continues throughout the
entire lifetime of a relationship.
4. Why Focus on Customer Retention?
• Getting new customers is expensive
• We need to protect our revenue stream
• Repeat customers spend more
• Loyal customers are less price sensitive
• They Will Take Their Business Elsewhere
12. Challenge with behavior as a loyalty criteria is a
customer may repeat purchases because:-
•Convenience, price, availability, or inertia due to
habit.
•Purchases made w/out motive for choice
14. • Willingness of customer to rely on organization
• Reduces uncertainty and risk
• Honest, fair and unreasonable.
16. 1. Create A Culture Of Buzz!
If the marketplace isn't talking about you, there's a
reason. The reason is that you're boring. And you're
probably boring on purpose. You have boring pricing
because it's safer...You have boring products because
that's what the market wants.
17. 2. Consistency builds trust!
• Customer retention is a long-term game, not a
drive-by event.
• Repetition, consistency & authenticity build
trust and are the foundational tools of customer
retention.
18. 3. Trust most important factor to offer!
Lack of trust is the single greatest reason you can’t
keep customers.
19. 4. Staff as customer!
Your employees treat your
customers the same way you treat
the employees!
20. 5. Create an open dashboard.
• One-page, high-level view of key
strategic, marketing and financial
indicators.
• Transparency with employees key to
company success and vision as well
as customer retention.