Customer Retention Programs

Out with the old, in with the new.
Typical Sales Cycle
Incentivized Sales Cycle
Repeat Business
Repeat Business
Law of Reciprocity:

  • responding to a positive action with another positive action, and responding to a negative action with another negative one.


  • to give and take mutually.


Readings:

The two best-known and best selling books on the subject are Psychology of Persuasion by Kevin Hogan  and Influence by Robert Cialdini.

This page was last updated: February 8, 2011
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Traditional customer retention strategies break the sales cycle.  Where as incentivized customer retention strategies follow the necessary steps to a sale.