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How do you measure customer value and should you treat different customers differently?

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Bob Gately
Owner, Gately Consulting

Calculate the Present Worth of the expected profit stream from each customer.

Yes, customers should be treated differently but not poorly.

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Tim Fitch
Director, Invennt Ltd

In my experience if you apply the true costs of servicing your customers the top 20% produce more than 100% of the profit. The long tail needs to be carefully analysed so that costly customers are gently removed or the cost of servicing reduced. When thinking about target customers, revenue should be valued so that rational decisions regarding marketing and business development can be made.

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John Lake
John Lake Replied on Sept. 14, 2011

While I agree with most of what you have said - especially "reducing cost of servicing" those customers who do not give you the kind of returns you are expecting - I caution against "gently removing." In today's Social Media environment, this can have a catastrophic effect if a customer feels they have been "removed" from a provider.
Explain to them why they are in the "tier" they are, what they can expect from you in that particular tier, how they can move up to the level they are expecting, etc.
The "removal" should be the customer's decision, not the provider's.

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Tim Fitch
Tim Fitch Replied on Sept. 16, 2011

My previous comment was directed at B2B relationships and specifically construction contracts. Here customer behaviour has a big influence on profitability. The decision is whether resources are best directed at changing customer behaviour or aquisition of new customers with different characteristics.

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I agree with John and Tim. Why the customer comes to you and what you are offering them when the customer hesitate to buy some thing from you. there are three kind of customers that belong to poor society, middle society and higher society. So all three customers have distinct behavior by their earning issues. You have to judge which customer is standing with you or which customers products you are offering. Obviously, customers are treated by their behavior or response. You can also develop CRM strategy for particular customer as defined three categories above.

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