Customer churn in the services industry is still a growing issue, primarily because many consumers have little or no allegiance to a particular service provider. I believe that customer churn adversely affects companies because they stand to lose a great deal of price premium, decreasing profit levels and a possible loss of referrals from continuing service customers. […]
Personally, I feel there is a significant difference between making more customers satisfied and making customers more satisfied. The best way of increase profits is in making several customer segments much more than just satisfied. A customer satisfaction rating alone is not the right measure for pointing out customer loyalty towards your business. […]
Proper devotion to the 8 Cs of Customer Retention will go a long way toward preventing the dreaded ninth C – Cancellation. It has been said time and time again that it costs more to find new customers than to retain existing ones. And even though this maxim has become somewhat cliché, the fact behind the statement holds true – quality customer service leads to retention, and customer retention is the key to establishing any healthy business. […]
Let’s be serious. Nobody wakes up and decides to tell all their friends and family what a great place TOP’s Restaurant is! Marketers who want to take advantage of word-of-mouth communications need to take a more subtle approach. We take customers that arrive on personal recommendation but do little to cheer them to carry on the tradition of spreading the word. […]
The significance of data is that you can see behaviour change daily. If a trend emerges from analysis of your data, it is appropriate to review marketing strategy and assess the success or relevance of the plan under way. The data and the insight they provide become an extremely precious indicator of customer satisfaction. Data linked to loyalty programs becomes a rich source of market research. It is not what people say they do but what they actually do. […]
Customer retention programmes have historically had insufficient priority in most sectors, but then the forces affecting customer churn, and therefore the need for retention focus, have never been so great. The idea is not new. What is new is the approach. What is now being witnessed is a market increasingly commoditised and far more susceptible to competition – from other players and from new media. Customer knowledge and confidence have had a significant impact: it has become so much easier to compare and to swap products. Changing sales structures and wearing away of face-to-face interaction have helped to dilute or eradicate conventional ‘loyalty’. […]
Tips for maximizing on evolutionary trends to stimulate loyalty.
Most important lesson for managers is that loyalty schemes have a life cycle. Although they may be an effective sales strategy when introduced into a market, over time they lose their effectiveness as saturation occurs and customers become habituated to the loyalty schemes. Attitudinal loyalty seems to last longer than behavioural loyalty, but as behavioural loyalty is the only form that translates to dollars; this is not good news for business. However, the solution is to scrap the tired old loyalty scheme and come up with some innovative untried initiative that will capture the imagination of customers and stimulate both attitudinal and behavioural loyalty.
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Accommodating these trends will require a paradigm change on the parts of some companies. But whether a brand does something about it or not, the future is where it’s going to spend the rest of its life. How long that life is up to the brand, determined by how it responds to today’s reality.
This year is poised to be an exciting year for marketers; trends that have been taking shape over the course of the past decade are creating new opportunities for business owners. […]
I propose these tried-and-true tactics with interpersonal strategies that can deepen relationships with customers, establish greater levels of trust and build stronger customer loyalty. Here are 10 tips for you to consider if you are sincerely interested in having a business that is notable for customer loyalty and referrals.
Customer loyalty matters because selling more to existing customers is easier, and cheaper, than finding and selling to new ones. Loyal customers tend to buy more, more regularly. And they will frequently recommend your business to others. […]
Sam Walton founder of Wal-Mart nicely describes A Customer…
A customer is the most important person in any business
A customer is not dependent upon us. We are dependent upon him/her. […]
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