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Acquisition, Retention, and Development
University of BernInstitute of Marketing and Management Department of
Management and Entrepreneurship
Ruedi Beck, Sabine Bernhard, Nadia Hauswirth, Sabine Hosennen
16.11.2010 1
Not every customer is profitable!
Econimic value of an individual customer:Present value of cash flows generatet by that indivual minus costs of acquiring, retenting and developing that customer
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How to improve the customer profitability:◦ Stop doing business with people who persinstenly
generate losses◦ Develop an economically sound plan for moving
modestly profitable customers into the high-profit sector
◦ Create a plan for retaining customers in the profitable sectors and developing their economic value still further
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Quantify defection What‘s the present value of the average customer? How much do we lose?
Locate the epicenter of defection In which areas are the most defections? Which group of customers defects the most?
Learn from defectors and the dissatisfied What was the reason for defection? eliminate it!
Neutralize the causes of defection Don‘t disappoint, keep the price reasonable, maintain in
dialogue, surprise and delight
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Expand the amount of profitable business with existing customers
Cross-selling Vertical integration Diversification
For example you can examine the customers value chain of activities and determine which links in the chain you can profitably serve
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Not every customer is profitable Focus your recources on acquiring and
retenting profitable customers Identify the reasons of defection of
profitable customers eliminate them Try to gain a greater share of the wallet of
the profitable customers Invest the money you saved by dropping
unprofitable customers in rententing and developing the profitable ones
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