A customer lifecycle combines the activities that your team executes with the dynamics that are being experienced on the customer’s side. You can think of the customer life cycle as the way a consumer’s relationship changes with the brand over time, based on the actions of both the company and the customer. A customer lifecycle …
Customer loyalty is when a person or organization does business with your company on a repeat basis. Does that sound like something you can take for granted? Before you say “yes,” or even “I think so,” consider that the Havas Global Meaningful Brands Study of 2019 found that 77% of brands could vanish from the …
Successful companies find the best way to earn long-term loyalty means activating four elements of customer experience: Vision, Empathy, Alignment and Consistency. I say “successful companies” because many companies never get past the point of identifying priorities for CX. Sometimes companies stall because departments don’t always coordinate their work, technologies don’t integrate, or individual employees …
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“You can’t please everyone all the time.” You probably first heard this quote when you were a child, from a trusted adult who was trying to free you of the burden of trying to be everything to everyone. In business, it sure would be nice if this quote weren’t true. But the harsh reality is …
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Originally posted: April 29, 2015. Updated September 14, 2020. I initially wrote this post after a visit to my brother and his family in Los Angeles. Right now, I miss my family. Heck, I even miss the annoyance of travel. And I really miss the fun, silly doughnut tradition my nephew and I created. Here’s …
Your long-term, loyal customers are in jeopardy. Right now. Your competitors are circling. They’re baiting their hooks, hoping to lure your hard-won clients away. Whether your customers bite will be directly related to the relationship you (and your company) have developed with them. In other words, your objective is not just to land customers, but …
Everyone has their marketing pet peeve. Mine is companies that reward new customers acquisition instead of repeat buyers. And it happens All. The. Time. Just the other night, I ordered food from a delivery company I hadn’t used before. Yep, this new COVID world needed a little variety. As a first-time customer, I got the …
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When it’s time to invest to grow your company, wasting time and money is the opposite of what you need. That’s especially true when your company needs to evolve. From micro-businesses to enterprises, it can be lonely at the top. You need an objective outsider to guide your progress. When it’s time to take the …
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There’s an old quote by the playwright Chekhov. It’s not technically about customer information, but it could be. The quote goes something like this… “If you introduce a gun at the beginning of a play, it should be fired by the end.” In other words, you must stay consistent in the world you create. The same is …
How do you reward your VIP customers to drive loyalty and profitability? When I started dating my now-husband, the awesome and patient Joe, he was a confirmed Gap shopper. Nothing wrong with the Gap. Over time, as he became more senior at work, he decided to up his work clothes game. Over the years he’s …
