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Test your retention capabilities

How is your company tracking?

Use the following checklist to assess your organisation's customer retention proficiency:

Q Do you capture details on why customers are leaving your organisation? Are you aware of the most common reasons for customers leaving your organisation?
   
A The importance of capturing and analysing customer abandonment reasons cannot be understated. For example, it can assist to identify industry trends regarding features & pricing, your organisation’s and product performance history and expectations, obsolete product features, and customer demographic trends.
   
Q Do you have established trigger points alerting you to potential customer dissatisfaction?
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Q At what point is your customer deflecting business away to your competitors? Do you set benchmarks for customers / customer segments and track and respond to downward and upward movements? Does initial data captured estimate the customers' potential business worth?
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Q Are there specific staff assigned to customer retention? Are your retention staff consistent in their treatment of customers?
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Q What is the estimated spend for each new customer acquisition and what is the estimated spend on retaining customers?
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Q How quickly can you provide your marketing department with customer / product dissatisfaction trends emerging? Do you track which competitor products your lost customers are moving to and what features attracted them?
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Q What are the most successful offers by customer segment for retaining your customers?
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