Customer Retention and Cohort Analysis:
For a successful business new customers are very important;
but what about existing customers ? If you can’t keep the existing customers, then
why do you need new customers ?
There is a study shows that, companies or business which
retain their customers by as low as 5% get an increase in profit by 25-95%. Therefore,
you need to retain your customers to grow your business.
But customers retention is not something which needs strategies
or policies only, but it needs an aid of something else called Cohort Analysis.
Many business people are forgetting this very important part in creating best customers
retention strategies.
However, why one should retain his or her customers ? A
Guide Market Metrics explains that, you only have a 5-20% chance of selling to new
buyers but a 60-70% chance of selling to your existing customers.
As it was elaborated prior, cohort analysis is highly needed
before having customer retention strategies.
In Cohort Analysis; customers grouped in groups of the
same characteristics such as; you group your customers according to their month
of subscription, then make a follow up of those customers and see if they are still
existing or they are leaving.
Cohort Analysis will help you to identify when your customers
leave, how do they leave ? and why do they leave ? Therefore, after having a clear
picture of how your customers behaving, then you can be able to make good strategies
of retaining your customers.
Also in Cohort Analysis will help you to determine the
Customer Loyalty Value (CLV) rates and then
set programs to keep these customers.
A Cohort Analysis can be done on tools like MS Excel, BI
dashboards etc.
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