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Identifying customers in an attrition mode, and then executing processes or messaging programs to stabilize them or enhance their loyalty behavior and emotional kinship and affinity is kind of a marketing 'holy grail'. If accomplished, it can monetize very quickly and offer real opportunities for growth.
We would define customers/clients likely to churn as indifferent (or less, i.e. could be disaffected to downright negative), that is having no relationship and emotional affiliation with the supplier and viewing them in pretty tactical, passive, transactional, and functional/cognitive ways. Locating them in the customer base requires some science, and we have developed a marketing research algorithm that not only identifies these indifferent customers, but also pinpoints their reasons for being so (especially relative to those customers we would define as being committed and active advocates for the supplier's products and services) and suggests roadmaps for bootstrapping them to more positive and productive status.
Contact me for more information about our methodology and process.
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