4: Analytics for Customer Management Flashcards
What is Database Marketing?
–>driving force of Customer Management
is the use of customer databases to enhance marketing productivity
by more effective acquisition, retention and development of customers
What is Customer management?
View and strategy where customers are clustered into portfolios –>maximize customer value
When is CRM relevant?
Especially relevaant if:
- Frequent customerr interactions
- High expertise for purchasing is required
- Multiple products are purchased
What is CRM?
= analysing marketing databses and leveraging communication technologies to apply methods to maximize individual CLV
Customer centricity and segmenting
- Focus on Custoemr centricity
1. segmenting customers based on acquired information regarding CLV
2. Heterogenous segments, different to each other
3 inside homogenous Same characteristics
How to apply CRM?
- usage of CRM software to track activity
2 select profitable customers and develop relationships
What is customer equity?
total discounted lifetime values of all customers of the firm
CLV quantifies
quantifies long-term value of a customer to the firm
Why is expected CLV important?
also in context of customer centricity
- reaching customers that have a high potential value
- avoid wasting money by spending too much on customers with low potential
–>Customer centricity: looking at each individal customer in the marketplace in terms of potential value
What are the basic components needed to calculate CLV?
- Business must be contractual or must be able to tie purchases to individual customers
- need CRM that: stores customers, revenues, expenditure
- obtain useful discoount rate
Advantages of CLV?
- Management of customer relationship as an asset
- Measurement of customer loyalty
- Focus on long-term value of customers
- Monitoring of impact of managmenet and marketing invest. on the value of customer assets
- determination of optimal level of investments in marketing and sales
- Basis fo customer selection and customer-specific communication strategies
What signals the CLV to Customer Acqusition ratio?
it is a signal of customer profitability, and of sales and marketing efficiency
CLV|CAC ratio interpretation ranges?
- ratio < 2 –>bad ratio: Business is bleeding money
- 2 < ratio < 3 –>good ratio
- = 3 –>benchmark (very good ratio)
>3 –>Harvesting cash because business cannot grow anymore
What is the Initial goal of customer acquisition? (Customer selection)
The initial goal is to select the right prospect for the acquisition campaign
Process in Customer selection
RFM method
- Use RFM model that summarizes past consumer behavior
- Assumption: right cusotmer in the futue similar to right customer in the past
- Build groups of customers based on RFM characteristics
- Assign probabilities to each group in accordance with its differential response behavior –>and prioritize
What is an alternative model to RFM for customer selection?
Alternative: probability models in which prob that a cusotmer will react to an invitiation is related to his behavirpporal characteristics
What is the main challenge of probability models in customer acquisition?
Proability models?
main challlenge: is that the transaction history is not available for prospects
—>Consider clickstream data which entails information about customer environment in an online shopping environment
What is done after the decision on which customer to focus on?
- Decision which customer to focus on
–>adequate resource allocation
2. leverage customer acqusition
What are the acquisition channels?
- Personal selling
- Mass media
- Direct marketing channels
- Internet
- Retail outlets
–>Use of different messages to attract different customers
What is customer retention?
customer retention focuses on preventing customer attrition or churn
- loalty/reward programs
- Churn prediction models