Customer Retention

There’s an often-told story about a salesman in a department store who was deeply unhelpful and rude to a customer when he saw that they only wanted to buy a $13 item. However, when that salesman’s manager looked into the value that customer had spent in the life of their relationship with the store however, it ran into the tens of thousands of dollars.

In this section on customer retention, we have some superb content which will help you really understand what drives retention (it’s not always what you think). We debunk the myth that wowing customers is what it’s all about and we provide useful assets and downloads to help your customer retention efforts succeed.

Customer Experience, Customer Retention, Customer Surveys

4 Foolproof Ways To Increase Customer Loyalty

You’ve worked hard to build a valuable, loyal customer base, and you don’t want to lose it. Churn is never good. But sustaining loyalty and customer retention is not as easy as just providing good service. Want to know how to measure, maintain…

Customer Experience, Customer Retention, Customer Surveys

7 Steps to dominate B2B Customer Experience

B2C (business to consumer) organizations have been proactively managing customer experience for many years. Think of the restaurant or the retail store. You can go back more than a century for evidence of B2C outfits harnessing CX for business…

Customer Success and Customer Service Drive Customer Experience Excellence

Customer Retention, Customer Satisfaction, Customer Service, Customer Support

5 Actionable Steps to Achieving Customer Excellence

Great customer service is widely recognized as one of the key customer experience factors influencing brand loyalty. But customer excellence must also be acknowledged as having a major influence. Customer excellence is always doing and being…

Enterprise Feedback Management - What You Need to Know

Customer Feedback, Customer Retention

Enterprise Feedback Management: Everything You Need to Know & More

Customers interact with businesses, organizations and suppliers via multiple channels. Email, phone, social media, chat, mobile apps, SMS, face-to-face – are all used for customer feedback and interaction. People also leave online reviews…

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Customer Feedback, Customer Retention, Customer Satisfaction, Customer Support

20 Brilliant Customer Feedback Quotes to Use Everyday

Looking for new and useful customer feedback quotes for your next presentation or blog post? Customer feedback is taking centre stage. Customers have more ways than ever of getting in touch with the businesses that serve them. From social…

Customer Feedback, Customer Retention, Customer Satisfaction, Customer Support, Customer Surveys, Feedback Surveys, How To Survey Guides, Staff Employee Surveys

Quick Survey Ideas and Examples to Engage Customers

Sometimes you just want to send a quick survey to your customers, staff or partners. You might want to get a snapshot of how people feel about your product or service, super fast. Or you might want to ask people something regularly, so…

Book Reviews, Customer Retention, Staff Employee Retention

The Behaviour Business: Book Review

We all know that if we can influence customers' behaviour, we stand a better chance of succeeding in our business goals. In order to understand the science of customer behaviour, especially in digital environments, this month we read, "The…

Customer Experience, Customer Retention, Feedback Surveys, News & Press, Uncategorized

Top 5 Customer Experience Strategy Best Practices with Matt Watkinson

Ever get the feeling that customer experience strategy is an intellectual battle? Or that your company’s customer experience strategy would be better if only you had grander plans and bigger budgets? Well, stop. Nothing could be further from…

Customer Experience, Customer Feedback, Customer Retention, Customer Satisfaction, Customer Service, Customer Success, Customer Support, Customer Surveys, Feedback Surveys, How To Survey Guides, Retention Rate, Staff Employee Engagement, Staff Employee Retention, Staff Employee Satisfaction, Staff Employee Surveys, Uncategorized

How To Get Customer Feedback From The Emails You Are Already Sending

“The reports of email’s demise have been greatly exaggerated,” Mark Twain might have said. Email is the big daddy of business communications. More and more are sent every year despite repeated predictions to the contrary. Whatever gets…

How to respond to negative feedback

You can’t please all the people all the time. Negative feedback is a fact of life, even for businesses that provide great CX. Sadly, it can take its toll on customer-facing staff and even drain your resources disproportionately. Take social…

Customer Case Studies, Customer Feedback, Customer Retention, Customer Satisfaction, Customer Service, Customer Support, Customer Surveys, Feedback Surveys, How To Survey Guides, News & Press, Retention Rate, Staff Employee Engagement, Staff Employee Retention, Staff Employee Satisfaction, Staff Employee Surveys

ParentPay Passes CSAT Exam With Flying Colors

Schools have undergone a cashless revolution since ParentPay launched its innovative payment solution in 2002. As a result of removing cash, schools have saved millions of hours of time accounting for meals, trips, uniforms and other school…

Book Reviews, Customer Experience, Customer Feedback, Customer Retention, Customer Satisfaction, Customer Service, Customer Success, Customer Support, Customer Surveys, Feedback Surveys, News & Press, Retention Rate

The Membership Economy: Book Review

This month we sat down with a copy of "The Membership Economy: Find Your Superusers, Master the Forever Transaction, and Build Recurring Revenue by Robbie Kellman Baxter." In the book, Robbie Kellman Baxter (or RKB as we will call her for…