Increasing your company’s customer lifetime value means:
i) increasing customer loyalty
ii) general profitability
iii) marketing allowance
In order to increase customer lifetime value:
1. Always strive for making your product better:
When you want to build your business on loyal customers and brand evangelists, you have to do something that is beyond mass consumer expectations. As a matter of fact, people love to feel like they have the best thing, no matter what that thing is. Once they feel like it’s the best, they’ll do way more than talk about it.
2. Try upselling and cross-selling:
Upselling means persuading a customer to buy something more expensive or an advanced version of a product. You sell a more expensive model, additional features or upgraded version of something. This adds value to the product.
Cross-selling, on the other hand, means selling a new or a different product/service to an existing customer. In other words, you’re selling additional products to the customer.
Both these strategies are highly effective and profitable when trying to boost the customer lifetime value (CLV) for your business, no matter, what scale or size.
3. Differentiate yourself from your competitors:
You need to differentiate yourself from your competitors in terms of features, services, resources, or whatever else your customers will place some value on.
4. Be careful when choosing incentive schemes:
As a matter of fact, choosing the right incentive structure means your customers won’t be the only ones leveraging the rewards. Utilize your rewards system to increase customer retention, and boost your customer lifetime value without compromising your bottom line. Instead of discounts, offer exclusive products or value-added services. This will further increase your CLV by promoting customer loyalty and increasing profitability in the long-term.
5. Resolve customers’ queries:
Make it quicker and easier for your customers to get their questions answered. Go above and beyond your actual product and givethem something that makes their life easier on a regular basis. In other words, you need to understand your customers, figure out what would make their life easier, and build it.