Title: Customer Retention Techniques to Build Customer Loyalty
14 Techniques to Succeed in Retaining your
Customers
2What is Customer Retention?
- Before we go through the strategies for retaining
customers, let us first understand what actually
is a customer retention? - Customer Retention is the rate with which we
measure how an eCommerce company is taking care
of its customers over a duration. After all the
business is for the customers and the success can
be measurable through the customer satisfaction
and retention.
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3Customer Retention Rate
- If you have a low retention rate, then you must
what is going wrong with your process. - On the other hand, if you have a high retention
rate, you should make a strategy to maintain that
rate.
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4How to Retain the Customers?
- It is difficult to retain the customer if any of
you is not paying attention to another. - For retaining your customers, you should have an
exceptional user experience, connection
communication with your customers and education. -
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5Techniques to Retain Customers
- Here, we have included 4 techniques which will
help you in retaining your customers. - Find Out and Focus On Your Target Audience
- Seek and Act on Customer Feedbacks
- Boundless Improvement of User Experience
- Apt Message after Sale
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6Find Out Focus on Target Audience
- The first step which needs to be focused before
actually planning the customers retention is
that an eCommerce business needs to find out and
focus on their target customers as well as
existing loyal customers. When you create the
plan for customers retention keeping in the mind
your target audience, it gives more profit or ROI
than focusing on your new or average customers.
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7Focus on Target Audience (Cont..)
- To identify your target customers, you can check
the metrics such as Purchase frequency, Customer
Lifetime value, Price sensitivity, Average order
value etc. - To increase the retention rate and conversion
rate, you also need to find out the annual rate
of people leaving your site or subscriptions or
memberships. - If you want to customize the retention process
then you have to track the purchase behavior of
your customers.
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8What to Do?
- To enhance the conversion rate of your brand, you
can use the Net Promoter Score method. This will
let you know about people who like your products
and services (promoters), people who dont like
your products and services (detractors) and
people have neutral experience or perspective
(Passive) about you. - This will help you find out the group of people
on whom you could focus more for retaining them
on your website.
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9Seek and Act on Customer Feedbacks
- The companies who take the customer feedbacks and
reviews seriously, become successful as compared
to the customers who dont take that into
account. A customer review not only help to get
your company credibility but it also helps to
increase the conversion rate and build trust.
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10Seek and Act on Customer Feedbacks (Cont..)
- This happens because any new customer will first
check the review before they purchase your
product. They will believe in the review or
feedback from others. - Taking down the surveys or feedbacks from your
customers after they have made a purchase gives
an opportunity to see the pain points in real
time and help you to see the areas of
improvements.
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11Seek and Act on Customer Feedbacks (Cont..)
- You can ask for an on-page-survey depending on
the following factors - Duration on the website
- At the step of adding the items into their
carts - Number of webpages browsed
- These feedbacks can help you to know the points
using which you can retain your customers.
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12What to Do?
- Take down all the feedbacks seriously whether it
is a positive or a negative one. If you have
received a negative review, then take that into
consideration and correct your mistakes. - This will increase the chances of building more
customer faith in you.
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13Boundless improvement of user experience
- For creating and improving the customer
experience, it takes the data for feedbacks and
users site activity or purchase behavior. But
for this, you need to have not the best
technology but also upgrading systems. - When you determine the satisfaction level of the
customers once they have made a purchase from
you, it also reveals how they interacted with
your site, happiness they got, experience they
had and loyalty they have towards your website.
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14Boundless improvement of user experience (Cont..)
- If you want to provide the exceptional shopping
experience to your customers, then you have to
make sure that you prepare and follow a
personalized approach. It not only gives them a
personal touch but also connect with them
emotionally. And this will give you long term
loyal customers and increasing sales rate.
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15Boundless improvement of user experience (Cont..)
- To make a personalized touch, you can find out
about the emotional motivators and execute your
motivation plan. - Let us consider Ease and Convenience as the
emotional motivator for your targeted customers.
You should use such messages or designs which
offer ease and convenience to your customers
while they are shopping from your website.
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16Boundless improvement of user experience (Cont..)
- For Example
- Nettleton Shoes, have a special section on their
website which offers a chance to try their 1-2
pairs of shoes at their home before they actually
take the decision of buying those.
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18What to Do?
- You must concentrate on providing a personalized
and emotional touch to your customers. The
emotionally connectivity between the business and
customers ultimately establishes the trust factor
and improves the sales.
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19Apt Message after Sale
- Before you send the emails or message after a
sale, you should know about the purchase history
of that particular customer. Dont send a post
sale message just after a week of a purchase. It
will not look relevant or it will be too early
for those messages. - You can send an email or message regarding cross
selling products as per the customers purchase
history or behavior.
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20Apt Message after Sale (Cont..)
- For Example
- Amazon has sent a post-sale email to its customer
which also included cross selling products.
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22What to Do?
- In order to retain your customers through post
sale messages is to send them cross selling
products, new items in the same category or
reminder of consumable products. - This will help you keep the track of their
purchase and also connect with them.
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23Conclusion
- You may have some shortcuts to succeed in
retaining your customers. But those shortcuts
will not last long. You need to seek the data
and take it seriously for creating the customer
retention strategy. Dont forget that if you are
successful in retaining your customers, then
those customers will bring value, sales and
success to your business. - However, understand and learn from the points
discussed in this presentation and retain your
customers.
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24Do you want more sales, more profit?
- For an eCommerce business, it is very crucial to
gain credibility and popularity. And you can
achieve that through your loyal customers. - So, what do you do to retain your old/targeted
customers? - visit https//www.mconnectmedia.com/ecommerce-c
onsulting/. You can also share your suggestions
or points and ask the questions via comments
also. We would be happy to talk to you!
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