Customer Lifecycle
The customer lifecycle is the journey a customer goes through when interacting with a brand, from learning about a product to becoming a loyal customer. It includes all customer relationship stages, from first contact, to repeat purchases or ending the relationship.
The customer lifecycle shows how people move through different company interaction stages. These stages often include awareness, consideration, purchase, retention, and loyalty. Some models also include advocacy, where customers recommend the brand to others. Companies track this cycle to understand customer behaviour better and improve marketing efforts.
Standard tools for managing the customer lifecycle include CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software, marketing automation platforms, and analytics tools. Marketing, sales, and customer support teams often work together to guide customers from one stage to the next. For example, marketers might use targeted ads for new leads, sales teams close deals, and customer success teams help with onboarding and engagement.
Customer lifecycles are used across many industries, especially in B2B and SaaS marketing. For instance:
- A SaaS company may send product demos to new leads in the awareness stage.
- An e-commerce brand might offer discounts to customers at risk of churning.
- Subscription services use onboarding emails to encourage usage after signup.
- Retail marketers use loyalty programmes to retain frequent buyers.
- Customer success teams use lifecycle data to support upgrades or renewals.
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