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Churn, loyalty, relationship marketing, and the long game of keeping the customers you already have.

  • Are your products right for relationship marketing? A three-part test

    Relationship marketing pays off for some products and annoys the customers of others. A three-part test (frequency, involvement, switching cost) sorts yours.

    Loyalty & Retention · 12 min read

  • Drive profit with customer experience: no-excuses rules 3 to 5

    Customer experience and profit meet in three places: the right message, the moment of return, and the frontline. Rules 3, 4 and 5 of no-excuses CX explained.

    Loyalty & Retention · 12 min read

  • Reduce customer attrition with the seven rules of no-excuses CX

    How to reduce customer attrition with the seven no-excuses rules: the excuses they answer, the two rules that cut churn fastest, and a one-week inventory.

    Loyalty & Retention · 12 min read

  • Should you fire your customers? A four-question decision path

    Firing customers covers two cases with different answers, the unprofitable and the abusive, plus a loud one you must never fire. A four-question path decides.

    Loyalty & Retention · 13 min read

Customers are grown, not captured. Practical writing on customer experience and the voice of the customer.

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