Much of the focus in marketing these days centers on the act of acquiring new customers. Certainly, any business must continually capture new customers in order to sustain growth and survive. But it costs a lot to attract and land a new customer — much more than it does to sell to existing one. So while landing a new customer is important, real success and growth requires selling to your best customers….the ones you already have.
Customer Engagement Boosts the Bottom Line
Keeping your existing customers engaged gives an immediate boost to your bottom line, even before you up-sell or cross-sell a single item. Studies show that a 2 percent increase in customer retention has the same effect as decreasing costs by 10 percent. And a 5 percent reduction in the customer defection rate can increase profits by as much as 95 percent. Clearly, continual customer engagement pays.
Make Reengagement a Routine
Retaining customers can pay, but how do you do it? One way is with the routine customer documents that you send every day. Statements, acknowledgments, invoices, account summaries, notifications – these are just a few of the many customer-facing documents that are sent to customers each and every day. The expense and effort behind issuing these documents is no small matter; often costing tens of thousands of dollars to send and thousands of labor hours to produce. Despite this investment, routine customer documents are often overlooked in the bigger marketing mix, and for years have been issued with relatively little thought behind the marketing value that everyday documents may, or may not, possess. We’re here to change all that.
Everyday Documents
At Eclipse, we pioneered the idea of retaining customers with everyday documents. Our flagship solution, DocOrigin, was built from the ground up to enable business units, marketing specialists and IT departments to work together on a common platform to improve customer-facing documents in order to save money, increase effectiveness and boost the value of each customer engagement. If you thought it was too difficult or complex to add targeted content, relevant messaging and coordinated campaign management to your old school transactional documents it’s time to think again. We make it possible and affordable with DocOrigin. Want to learn more? Just call 678.408.1245 or click here to schedule a free consultation.