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  • Customer Analytics

    Customer retention rate: are you measuring it correctly?

    Customer retention rate looks like simple arithmetic, yet two teams get two answers from one database. Five decisions hide in the definition; here is the fix.

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  • Loyalty & Retention

    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.

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  • Customer Analytics

    Customer lifetime value strategy: grow your business, no excuses

    A customer lifetime value strategy turns the seven no-excuses rules into arithmetic: estimate value by segment, build a value-at-risk table, act on it.

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  • Customer Experience

    Customer retention during an acquisition: will you be fired?

    Customer retention during a merger or acquisition fails because everything a customer relied on changes at once. A 30-day plan for the company and the CX lead.

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  • Loyalty & Retention

    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.

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  • Loyalty & Retention

    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.

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  • Loyalty & Retention

    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.

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  • Voice of the Customer

    You're fired: silent churn and the customers who never say so

    Silent churn is the customer who leaves without saying so. Four signals that precede it, a monthly who-went-quiet review, and outreach that is not surveillance.

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

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  • Customer Experience 15
  • Voice of the Customer 3
  • Surveys & Research 2
  • Customer Analytics 8
  • Loyalty & Retention 4
  • Field Notes 3

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  • → Customer data quality: don't let inaccurate data stop you from acting
  • → Customer retention rate: are you measuring it correctly?
  • → Customers are grown, not captured
  • → Is customer lifetime value a waste of time? Only when misused
  • → Listening to your best customers: do you hear what I hear?

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