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The Ultimate Guide to Customer Retention

Smile.io

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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The Future of Customer Service: How Ticketing Systems, Content and Chat Are Changing the Game

Retail TouchPoints

But customer service must be prioritized by every organization. Here are three data-backed reasons why: Good customer service leads to increased customer retention rates. ? Customer service plays a crucial role in brand image. Proactive customer service is a powerful form of marketing.

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11 Proven Hacks to Keep Your Customers Buying More

Kissmetrics

It costs 5X less to retain a customer than it does to acquire a new one. That’s why customer retention is crucial to growing your Ecommerce business. What is customer retention? Customer retention is the ability to encourage customers to keep coming back to make purchases.

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The Limited Role of AI in Ecommerce

Retail TouchPoints

While AI presents vast possibilities to enrich this journey, it also ushers in significant challenges that could negatively impact customer retention and a brand’s bottom line. And this is where AI is poised to be a game changer. It’s the difference between a one-time customer and a lifelong advocate.

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How Gamification Marketing Can Increase Your Ecommerce Sales

Omnisend

People look for gaming pleasure for years–it taps into our competitive human nature. Gamification takes the essence of what makes games so alluring and integrates it into unexpected, non-game, online, and offline experiences. Gamification increases customer engagement and sales. Reading Time: 6 minutes. Get My Copy.

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Empowering E-commerce: Essential free marketing tools to outshine your competitors

lateshipment

Customer Retention: Keeping tabs on all the retention strategies of your customer users, you can outbid them on the bottom-of-the-funnel marketing too. Remember that retaining customers would always cost less than acquiring new customers. But this often is concealed between a customer and the brand.

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Remaining Agile in a New Age of Retail: Three Things that Enterprise Brands can Learn from Smaller Players 

Retail TouchPoints

Now, however, with disposable incomes squeezed and purchases becoming more considered than ever before, it’s important for larger brands to learn from the agility and mindset of microbrands to improve customer retention and success in an increasingly competitive retail landscape.