Skip to main content

Customer Retention

 


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.

 


Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Customer Service Analysis

  Customer Service Analysis:   Customer Service Analysis (CSA) is a process of splitting apart and understanding each part of services provided to a customer. Not only that but also Customer Service Analysis is a major mean of good customer service report. This means that, a business or company study careful all the services providing to the clients or customers and see if they can take a business from one level to another. Customer service is currently defined as a set of care which a customer should be given. But in business analysis level, Customer service refers to as everything which can make a customer to come back again and again. So, there are some key parts to follow in Customer Service Analysis. Understand type of customers you are serving Customers are segmented in many groups such age, gender, public status, quality and quantity. All these groups depending on the type of products you are selling. So, make sure that you understand most of your customers ...

KPIs IN BUSINESS

  KPIs IN BUSINESS:   KPI stands for Key Performance Indicator which means a quantifiable measure of performance over time for a specific objective. KPIs are not Business metrics. KPIs are the key target you should track to make the most to make the impact on your strategic business outcomes. Therefore, KPIs support your business strategies to reach   your business goals outcomes and help your team to focus on what is important. Picture this; A business is aiming at acquiring new customers of older age for their new products. Therefore, a business conducts a promotion discount to each product purchased by customer of older age. There, KPI is customer of older age. Are the KPIs important ? Yes. You need KPIs in your business to support team on achieving the core business goals within time and budget. Some of benefits KPIs can offer your business; Keep your team aligned When measuring any project success in your business; KPIs keep team moving in one direction...

Customers Relationship Management

  Customer Relationship Management (CRM) The important issue in any business is to analyze and use every individual customer data. Most business are   full of information about their customers. Information of the customer is very important for the growth of your business profit; and that’s why is smart business each information possible to be collected from a customer is put into consideration. These information of the customers consists of different aspects such as purchase, sales, services and support calls, website visits, customers satisfaction surveys, payment interaction etc. A smart marketing team must research and have a clear picture to every contact between customer and business or company. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a process in which a business administers its interaction with customers, typically using data analysis to study large amount of information. CRM system involve the compilation of data which are scattered widely across the busine...