What you need to know about the new direct marketing guidance note
Nadine Mather and Chloë Loubser
How to begin optimising your customer retention
Retaining customers is a big focus in every business, and every business wants to make sure that their customers are happy and loyal - so that they buy more and buy more often. The way to do this is obviously through positive engagement, meeting their needs, and meeting needs better than the competition. This ongoing and increasing spend or share of wallet drives profitability and market share growth.
Any business worth its salt knows all of this and aims to take advantage of this intelligently and in a disciplined way. The question is often not about what they need to do but how to do it. How do you increase your customer retention? How do you give your customers what they want?
The answer is through focused and robust customer understanding. With this question in mind, Ipsos undertook research in mid-2014 to investigate customer needs with special focus on exactly what their expectations are during the transactional and ownership experience.
The research was conducted in an automotive retail environment but the approach and many of the learnings could be applied to other industries.
Ipsos uncovered the customer experience "journey" relative to expectations and needs. This includes:
- Pain points
- Moments of Truth
- Drivers of Delight
These points came together to form a very detailed Customer Journey Map providing very specific examples of what a business can do to better service and engage with its clients. It includes:
Ipsos used the world-renowned and market-leading psychographic approach, Censydiam, to understand the key drivers and motivators of the different types of customers. The detail and assumptions drawn, based on these robust techniques, have allowed us to develop a very holistic and detailed picture of the different types of customers that exist in the automotive environment and simply speaking, to identify what exactly these customers want.
The full report is available from Ipsos.
About Ipsos - Game Changers
Ipsos is an innovative, entrepreneurial, client-focused organisation, providing research services to clients on a global basis. We set ourselves high standards and aim to work collaboratively in partnership with our teams in order to service our clients most effectively.
Ipsos is proud to be the only global market research company that is still controlled and operated by market researchers. We aim to remain the natural home for intellectually curious and passionate researchers.
Our goal is simple: to be our clients' preferred research partners in our areas of specialisation, based on BQC (Better, Quicker, Cheaper) methodologies and processes. We want our clients to be proud and pleased to work with us - and we want each one of us to be proud and pleased to offer our clients high quality standards, efficiency and intelligence.
Ipsos is an innovative, entrepreneurial, client-focused organisation, providing research services to clients on a global basis. We set ourselves high standards and aim to work collaboratively in partnership with our teams in order to service our clients most effectively.
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