Churn, as scary as it is real, means the end of a relationship. It affects all businesses at some point and no one, not even the most successful retailers in the world, is excluded. Churn is a fact and you have to work very hard within every corner of your business to prevent and reduce customer churn. One very effective way of managing this is to measure and act on predictive churn scores. In other words, the likelihood of a customer leaving you.
Your CRM or CDP – in this case, Voyado, will keep an eye on each customer’s overall engagement to make an assessment of whether this customer shows signs of declined interest in your brand. It does so by looking at things like opening rates, click rates, purchase frequency, etcetera, Voyado then presents the probability of each customer leaving you– called predictive churn scoring.
The churn scoring predicts behavior with a certain margin of error. Using this type of value means that you can keep an eye on those customers which are predicted to have a high risk for churn.
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| Score | Description |
|---|---|
| 0.0 – 0.50 | Active (Low churn score) |
| 0.51 – 0.69 | Declining (Medium churn score) |
| 0.70 – 1.00 | Churning (High churn score) |
If a customer has a high churn rate, it is very likely that he/she does not open your emails often and does not have an overall interest in your brand anymore. For this reason, it is recommended that you test different channels to approach the customer to see which channel works. Go back and see if they’ve opened more SMS than emails historically for example. Or perhaps they might be a price-sensitive customer who only acts on sales communication. Knowing why your score is low can help you segment out those who should receive less communication from you, to stop them from leaving altogether.
We recommend that you combine the predictive churn score with recent behavior. Set up an automation that fetches possible churners and processes them with offers relevant to their profile. Here is an example:
No brand is safe from customers leaving, but with Voyado you have all the tools you need to prevent as much churn as possible. Identify dropping scores early, analyze the reason for why they are becoming less active, and set up campaigns and tests to keep them coming back. If you’re not yet working with churn score automation, get in touch to book a demo today.
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