Customer life cycle

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customer life cycle It refers to the business relationship between a customer and the enterprise from the beginning of a customer's understanding of the enterprise or the enterprise's desire to develop a customer Complete termination And the related matters have been completely handled. The customer's life cycle is the enterprise product life cycle However, for commercial enterprises, the life cycle of customers is much more important than that of a product. The customer life cycle describes Customer relationship The general characteristics of movement from one state (one stage) to another state (another stage).
Chinese name
Customer life cycle
Foreign name
customer life cycle
Discipline
Marketing
Definition
Evolution of enterprise product life cycle
Theory involved
CRM

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The so-called customer life cycle refers to the process of birth, growth, maturity, aging and death of a customer for an enterprise similar to life. Specific to different industries, there are different detailed definitions. For example, in the telecommunications industry, the so-called customer life cycle refers to Telecom customers From becoming Telecommunication company And began to produce a process of business consumption start, consumption growth, consumption stability, consumption decline, and finally off the network.
More accurately, the so-called "customer life cycle management" refers to the whole process from the customer's consideration of which operator's service to purchase, to the management of its revenue contribution and cost after accessing the network, to the early warning and retention of off network tendency until the customer wins back after leaving the network. This process includes 11 key Value creation Link, that is, the customer's Purchase intention , acquisition of new customers, stimulation and improvement of customers' monthly income contribution, management of customers' daily service costs, Cross selling /Overlay sales, call fee adjustment, contract renewal of contracted customers, management of customer transfer between brands, early warning and retention of offline customers bad debt To win back the lost customers. These links actually include all the key points of operators' daily operation work. 11 links are linked to form a marketing line Value chain It is also the starting point for operators to formulate customer strategies. Customer life cycle management focuses on these 11 key value creation links, uses rich customer data to conduct in-depth analysis, and designs Personalization strategy , and then through a large number of contact point , execute these policies.

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On the life cycle Customer relationship The development of customer relationship is phased, and the phase division of customer relationship is the basis for the study of customer life cycle. At present, there have been many studies in this area, and some scholars have put forward five suggestions for the development of business relations Stage model Some scholars also divide the customer life cycle into four stages, while individuals believe that it is more suitable for telecom enterprises to divide the customer life cycle into five stages.
Stage A: Customer acquisition. Discovery and acquisition Prospects And provide appropriate Value proposition To get customers.
Phase B: customer promotion. By stimulating demand Portfolio or Service portfolio Cultivate customers into high-value customers.
Stage C: customer maturity. Enable customers to use new telecom products and cultivate customers' loyalty
Stage D: customer recession. Establish high-risk customers Early warning mechanism To extend the life cycle of customers.
Phase E: customer offline. This stage is mainly to win back customers.
Related Marketing The theory involved is CRM According to this theory, we can adopt scientific methods to calculate customer life cycle value, and then conduct business Business decision Analysis of.