Managing The Customer Lifecycle: Customer Development and Retention
Managing The Customer Lifecycle: Customer Development and Retention
Customization
Channel integration
Measures of retention:
Raw CR rate = (no. of customers doing business at the
end of the year) / (active customers at the beginning of
the year)
Sales adjusted CR rate = (sales received from
retained customers) / (sales achieved form all
customers at the beginning of the period)
Profit adjusted retention rate = (profit earned from
retained customers) / (profit earned from all customers
at the beginning of the period)
Customer Retention vs Value
Retention
Consider:
A retail outlet having 1000 customers
contributing a total Rs 50 lakhs revenue per
month
50 customers defect; revenue comes down to
Rs 40 lakhs
Negative strategy
Positive strategy
Strategies for Customer Retension
Negative strategy:
Penalize their exit from the relationship
Swtching costs compells customers to remain
though not satisfied
May result in negative WOM
Strategies for Customer Retension
Positive strategy:
Reward customer for remaining in relationship
Customer delight
Occur when perceptions > expectations
Kano's Customer Delight model
Basic/linear/attractive qualities
Methods to add customer perceived values:
B2C: Loyalty schemes; Customer clubs; Sales
promotions
B2B: Social and structural bonds (financial, legal,
technological, geographic, process, equity)
Impact of Context on Customer
Retension
Number of competitors
Corporate culture
Channel configurations
Purchasing practices
Ethical conerns
Performance Indicators of Customer
Retention Programmes
Raise prices