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The Ultimate Guide to Customer Retention

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Customer retention is a key element in making sure your ecommerce business is sustainable and in business for the long term. Without repeat customers, your business won’t have the base it needs to grow. 🛍️ Customer retention is about keeping loyal customers, as opposed to recruiting new ones.

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American Girl, the Home Depot and Victoria’s Secret Among List of 2023 Brand Experience Award Winners

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The 2023 Brand Experience Award winners are brands and retailers taking innovative approaches to all things “experience” — from advanced influencer marketing strategies to immersive store designs and even thoughtful approaches to the metaverse.

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What is Customer Retention, and Why is it Important?

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As we enter a period of economic uncertainty, one thing will be more important than anything else for small business owners–customer retention. When customers are spending less on discretionary purchases, it’s important to emphasize loyalty. What is customer retention?

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Retailers Increasingly Turning to Third-Party Resources to Handle Fulfillment

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Store-based fulfillment of customer orders got an enormous boost during the COVID pandemic, when both curbside pickup and delivery offerings became survival tactics for so many retailers. While just 45% of 2022 survey respondents outsourced deliveries to courier services, 57% did so in 2023.

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Last minute tips and tricks for BFCM – 2023 + checklist

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When a customer trusts you, they turn into brand advocates and you could use free word-of-mouth promotion to increase sales and acquire a lifetime customer. Ways to build relationships with your customers Loyalty Programs Customer Retention Activities Collecting the Feedback Post-Purchase Customer Service Omnichannel Messaging 4.

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The State of Ecommerce Customer Loyalty in 2023

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  For this report, we analyzed over 100,000 merchants in 148 countries over two years and compared various metrics from 2023 to the previous year in 2022. Mike Rossi 2023 Customer loyalty data snapshot  The study examines key retention metrics year over year by industry and merchant size based on average monthly order count.

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How to get repeat customers in 2023?

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Customers have the choice to begin their journey online and end up in physical stores, or vice versa, thanks to Google Lens and other tools. Businesses must provide the best value proposition, convenience, loyalty programmes, and other services in order to meet customers’ expectations in 2023 and get repeat customers.

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