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The reward comes from the work

The past two weeks (and weekends) have been pretty hectic in the garden. True Spring and its heat arrived finally three weeks ago after a cold and wet start. That meant it was time to everything into the ground or greenhouse, including 110 tomatoes, 50 or so peppers, and 20...

Great customers can start with small orders

I remember trying a whole bunch of samples of different brands and flavors of exercise nutrition. The ones I ended up sticking with, I bought many large containers of for years. When you acquire a new customer you won't know if a customer is above-average or not. It'll probably take...

Grow your above-average customers

Over the long-term, you want to grow the number of your above-average customers so they make up a larger part of your customer base. You should absolutely continue to grow your customer base as a whole through customer acquisition. You just want to accumulate more above-average customers as you go....

Struggling to reach 100% completion

Late last week our basement office was finally finished. That meant an entire long weekend of cleaning, moving, and setting up of my office. As I write this everything is moved in but there's a dozen of piles of miscellaneous. A pile of papers to file. A pile of cables...

Feature and highlight your best-selling product variants

As with best-selling products, sometimes you'll have a specific variant that outsells the others. When that happens you should make sure to highlight that variant as much as possible. Anyplace you mention the product, that variant should be the one shown. Hero banners, product photos, email images, etc. You could...

Plan to email customers more frequently

Many years ago before I started daily emails I did quite a bit of research on how frequent and when to send emails. At the time the advice was at least once per month or once a week if you could produce the content. Then for sales emails it was...

Using unified customer scoring to better rank customers

The neat thing about having a unified customer scoring system like Customer Grades in my app, is that you can just sort customers quickly get an idea of your best customers. Compare that to sorting by a single metric, like as Customer Lifetime Value. With a single metric you'll see...

The cost of bad advice

This year I have a couple hundred plants ready to go into the ground but the weather is still too cold. Some I started too early. Others I started too many (tomatoes). Some we questionable seed that ended up growing quite well. Later this week it should start to heat...

Use win-back campaigns to remind soon-to-defect customers

Similar to the advice from last Friday, you should not only try to win-back defected customers but also ones who are on the fence of defecting. Oftentimes customers just plain forget about your store and have a hard time remembering where they bought something. This is even more problematic if...

Use win-back campaigns to recover your high-value defected customers

Win-back campaigns can be effective to get expired and defected customers to come back to your store. You'd send them after a set amount of time has lapsed since a customer's last order. (In Repeat Customer Insights the Focus on: Downturn dashboard can tell you that timing). Often the email...

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