Customer Engagement
Interactions with customers in an attempt to build an emotion connection between consumer and business. It's important, as a fully engaged customer is worth 23% more revenue.
Customer Experience (CX)
CX represents the sum of a customer’s interaction with a business or brand. Think holistically -- their perception is formed by the entire marketing life cycle (i.e. browsing your website, talking to customer service, making a purchase, following up on a warranty, etc).
Customer Experience Management (CEM)
CEM is about outlining a strategy to optimize customer experience (CX). The key is understanding customers’ motivations and building plans to improve your business’ perception and process.
Customer Journey
Customers often research or encounter a product or service multiple times before their purchase decision. Each of these interactions is known as a touchpoint, which outlines the customer journey. Shockingly, only 36% of companies have a process to map customer journeys.
Customer Lifetime Value (CLV)
CLV measures how valuable a customer is across their entire relationship with a company. Examining CLV helps companies identify key market segments and improve services throughout the customer lifecycle.
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
An organization’s process -- their practices, guidelines, software -- for interacting with its customers. The end goal is to foster customer engagement and enhance CX.
Customer Retention/Customer Loyalty
Retention measures whether a customer continues to use a company’s products or services. Loyalty, meanwhile, is the next level: suggesting that a customer is engaged with the brand or business and potentially willing to become a promoter.
Customer Satisfaction (CSAT)
Another commonly used metric that measures customer service and product quality. Respondents are given a 1-5 scale with 1 representing “very unsatisfied” and 5 signifying a “very satisfied” customer.
Churn
Churn represents the percentage or rate of customers that stop using a company’s product or service within an established time period. Reducing churn is a major milestone for the large majority of product companies.
Net Promoter Score (NPS)
The core metric used to measure a company’s customer experience management (CEM) strategy. This 1-10 scale asks customers how likely they are to recommend a business or brand. As it is calculated by the percentage of promoters minus the percentage of detractors, the complete range of NPS scores falls between -100 and +100. According to Retently, NPS is typically between 3 to 62, depending on the industry.
Product Lifecycle
Each product or service undergoes a journey -- from when it’s first introduced to consumers until after it’s purchased. Understanding a product’s “life after the sale” is a key aspect that is often forgotten by companies.
Product Touchpoint
Interactions with customers through various channels -- a website, app or a person-to-person connection with a company representative. Creating effective, real-time, after-sale touchpoints represents an untapped market for companies.
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