Repeat Customer Insights has received updates to its data analysis and insights engine. Now the Store Analysis and Customer Purchase Latency reports will automatically compare the various metrics to how they performed in the past. You can select any year or quarter available in your account and the app will...
This year the garden has been yielding so-so. Some plants are crazy productive (tomato, kale) while others failed (spinach) or grew slowly (lettuce, potato). It makes sense though. This is the first year for most of it and the second year for the rest, so the soil and ecosystem as...
A Repeat Customer Insights customers was asking about how the cumulative orders in the Cohorts Report work: Why doesn't the sum of month 1 to n on the cohort customers % match the nth month for the cumulative cohort %? The percentages are based on how many unique customers have...
I was thinking about what can be done to make this year's holiday rush better. I put together this checklist for Shopify stores to maximize the value from new and repeat customers. Give customers a reason to subscribe to your emails. New customers are added to a New Customer Welcome...
The RFM model works really well for large stores. With 125 unique segments, there's a lot of fine-tuning potential. For smaller stores (and stores that don't want to fiddle), it might be too much as it is. Say you get 500 orders per month (6,000 per year). That means you'll...
Jed was asking about which segments in Repeat Customer Insights to focus their effort on 80/20 style. If it was my store and I could only focus on 20% of customers, I would pick the Loyal and VIP (RF) segments. They are the most loyal customers and would be most...
I learned last week that a few email marketing systems will automatically unsubscribe your customers if they place an order in Shopify and don't check the Accept Marketing checkbox in checkout. It's commonly listed in checkout as "Keep me up to date on news and offers" or "Email me with...
Many stores spend a lot of resources on customer acquisition. How much does it cost on average? What about an online store customer vs POS vs Facebook? Does it increase over time or stay within a band of costs? But acquisition costs are only part of the picture. You'll want...
This week I finished saving seeds from my first batch of tomatoes. We've had a bunch of the fruits and love the taste and how productive the plants have been. All qualities I look for in a tomato. The seeds came from tomatoes that were overripe, had soft spots, or...
Where a customer first buys matters a lot. If a customer buys in-store while you were running a closeout sale, that's different than if they bought online during the same sale. The sale probably attracted both customers, one to walk-in and one to click. The in-person customer would had have...
Each tip includes a way to improve your store: customer analysis, analytics, customer acquisition, CRO... plus plenty of puns and amazing alliterations.