Manter os clientes que interessam

E volto a "Várias perplexidades" pelo lado da reflexão, pelo lado da identificação de padrões, pelo lado da fuga ao bombeirismo:

"Depending on which study you believe, and what industry you’re in, acquiring a new customer is anywhere from five to 25 times more expensive than retaining an existing one.
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increasing customer retention rates by 5% increases profits by 25% to 95%.(Moi ici: Mas não fique só por esta frase, leia pelo menos o último parágrafo deste recorte)
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“If I’m interested in keeping customers, I’m interested in understanding how many leave and the underlying reasons why they are ending their relationship with me,” says Avery. Changes in a company’s churn rate could be a signal that something is working well (if the number goes down) or needs addressing (if the number goes up). (Moi ici: Estão a ver as empresas que, por causa da ISO 9001, calculam um número, um tal de grau de satisfação, e ... ficam por aí, o objectivo parece ser calcular o número. E olhar para os números como amostragens que saem de um sistema, como sinais que ilustram padrões e permitem actuação sistémica?) The idea is that when you know that more customers or subscribers are cutting ties with your firm, you can work to adjust your marketing strategy or customer service approach.
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The second mistake that companies make is to look at churn as simply a number or metric rather than as an indicator of behavior. The questions managers should be asking themselves are: What are we as a company doing to cause customer turnover? What are our customers doing that’s contributing to their leaving? How can we better manage our customer relationships to make sure it doesn’t happen? Dissecting what’s behind the number will help you determine what to do to change it.
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The final mistake is not seeing that often a high churn rate is the result of poor customer acquisition efforts. “Many firms are attracting the wrong kinds of customers. We see this in industries that promote price heavily up front.
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Before you assume you have a retention problem, consider whether you have an acquisition problem instead. “Think about the customers you want to serve up front and focus on acquiring the right customers. (Moi ici: Ainda esta semana tive um desgosto. Identificaram-se os clientes-alvo e as experiências que valorizam. Meses depois, seduzidos pelo canto de sereia de uma empresa muito grande, inebriados pela luxúria da quantidade, mas com margens de caca, a estratégia corre o risco de ficar para trás, numa PME) The goal is to bring in and keep customers who you can provide value to and who are valuable to you,”"

Trechos retirados de "The Value of Keeping the Right Customers"