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Reading list: Advice for customer retention

Intercom, Inc.

We continue our series of posts looking back through the Inside Intercom archive with a selection of some of our most popular posts on customer retention. Churn is inevitably going to be more of an issue, but that’s all the more reason to make every effort to ensure your customers can still find value in your product or service.

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Customer retention is the new conversion

Intercom, Inc.

Most importantly, subscription businesses enable you to think about marketing as a function of delivering customer success, and not just about the transactional “get that customer over the line.” Customer retention is more important than conversion. How do we retain customers? LTV > CAC.

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Customer Retention in 2023: What’s Changed, What’s Working, and How to Adjust

Customer Think

With ongoing shifts in the economic climate, customer retention continues to be a main focus—and in many cases, it has become even more important in 2023. According to a report by Twilio, in the face of recession, 67% of businesses are shifting focus from customer acquisition to customer retention.

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How to Calculate the Cost of Customer Retention Versus Customer Acquisition

Totango

Comparing the cost of customer retention versus customer acquisition underscores why retaining clients is so important. Here’s how to calculate both kinds of costs and why retention should form part of a profitable business strategy. Calculating the Cost of Customer Acquisition. Email marketing.

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The Secret to Customer Retention

CX Journey

Want to know the secret to customer retention? I do sometimes find inspiration to write about both customer and employee experiences in the strangest ways, but that story got me thinking about this blog post that I needed to write about customer retention and how to keep customers coming back.

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Customer Retention During Economic Downturns: What’s Top of Mind for Your Customers?

Totango

Equipped with the knowledge provided by customer data, you can help your customer survive tough times by offering practical solutions that add value and ultimately contribute to customer retention during economic downturns — even ones caused by a pandemic. Customer Retention Is Your Future.

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Customer Retention vs New Customer Acquisition: How Do You Optimize Both?

Totango

Knowing these different stages can be powerful for monitoring, servicing, and motivating customers, but it all needs to come from a unified, consistent brand. There’s no need to indulge a divisive customer retention vs. new customer acquisition dynamic. Optimize Customer Acquisition and Retention.