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Black Friday is coming, are you ready?

With Black Friday coming up next week, are you ready? If you'd like some ideas, I'm collecting my articles on my Black Friday topic page. Eric Davis Get started getting more from your repeat customers If you haven't signed up for Repeat Customer Insights, it's an easy process. Just give...

Measure your customer loyalty

Customer loyalty, or as described previously customer trust, can be easily measured. Does that customer buy again? That's it. Sure there's other things like: do they recommend you to their friends, have they posted a review, etc. At the end of the day, those don't matter as much as cold...

Averages hide problems

A piece of software I use is "experimenting" with new pricing. They are completely changing how they price and thus the actual end price customers pay is up in the air. There are a bunch of lessons and rants in how they did this experiment but what I want to...

Customer trust, not customer loyalty

Customer loyalty is a funny phrase. It sounds permanent and firm like a rock. "Our customers are loyal to us and will never leave" Problem is, like all of human behavior, customer loyalty can shift quickly. There are countless tales of a company or executive making a bad decision for...

Letting time do your work for you

Last year in autumn I collected a bunch of leaves and stored them in a huge bag. Now a year later they've mostly decomposed and turned into compost. After collecting them it took no work on my part. Just needed space for the bag and time. Basically free compost for...

Concentrate on keeping your existing customers during downturns

During any sort of downturn you should focus on retaining your loyal and returning customers. Technically you should focus on them all the time but the siren song of new customer acquisition can catch many Shopify store's attention. If you can keep your existing customers during a downturn, keep them...

Backup data from your Shopify store before you need it

As the busy season approaches, it's time to take a minute to think about protecting your data. That means data backups. Shopify backs up their data as a whole but you don't have access to those backups. So if something happens in your store like a mistake or a bad...

Promote the products that create the customer behavior you want

Different products will create different customer behavior. Some products will produce customers that order more frequently. Some products will produce customers that place larger orders. Some products will produce customers that defect and go to competitors. A large part of product analysis is finding out how each product influences customers....

Customer segments change over time

A useful thing about the Customer Grids in my app is how they can show shifts in your customer segments. Since they can compare any two periods you can see things like how Loyal customers have grown (or declined) over the last twelve months or if customer defections are on...

Product margins so low they are unprofitable to sell

A couple of weekends back I decided to pull out my bean plants. They were sorta making beans still but the Oregon rains hammered them so much that half were already rotting. Since the rainy season started it'll be unlikely to dry up enough for them to finish. If I...

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