A Repeat Customer Insights customer was asking me last week how to identify, track, and keep their high-repeat buyers. My answer is specific to the app but you can still follow it if you have a way of measuring customer purchases and grading them by how recently and frequently they order. The app uses the …
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What 23 pounds of seed can teach you about customer reordering behavior
I was ordering some bulk seed online the other day. I figured I’d buy a years worth at a time. That’ll save me the hassle of running out in the middle of the season. But by the time I got into checkout, I saw my $20 order was going to have a $20 shipping charge. …
Spending resources on the areas that matter the most to customers
Repeat Customer Insights has had a lot of features and reports added over the years. Enough that different customers use different reports for different purposes. That’s caused me to start thinking about how to better understand which reports contribute the most value to customers. Once I know that, I can prioritize my resources on those …
Adding another layer of guidance for your Shopify repeat customer metrics
With all of the data and reports included in Repeat Customer Insights now, it can become difficult to know where to get started. Once you know which report includes what, it’s easy to get back to it but if the dozen or so reports are new to you it’s easy to get lost. That’s why …
Evaluating the early impacts a downturn has on your customer’s behavior
One thing I’ve been wondering has been the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on long-term customer behavior. With April over, there’s now a couple of months of data that can be used to see the actual impacts for your Shopify store. In Repeat Customer Insights the Customer Cohort report would be the first place to …
How many emails should your new customer welcome campaign include?
Welcome emails are one of the most effective emails you can send when it comes to trust building. A Repeat Customer Insights customer emailed me a question about them: How many emails do you recommend in a Welcome Series, when someone purchases and or just signs up and should they be different? In an ideal …
Adding a new customer one-time offer to boost your Shopify store sales
One way to increase sales is to give each new customer a one-time offer. A discount is a typical option but it can be a bonus or free gift too. As long as it’s something valuable. You could make the offer conditional too, in that it’ll only apply on purchases over a certain amount which …
Optimize a New Customer Welcome campaign
When it comes to repeat customers, getting the second order is the hardest thing. Most stores I review for Repeat Customer Insights are limited by their one-time customers failing to convert to two-time customers. It’s an industry-wide phenomenon. Breaking through that wall can really make a difference though. Once a customer has made their second …
Create a New Customer Welcome campaign
One high leverage email campaign for Shopify stores is the New Customer Welcome campaign. Usually its the newer stores that are missing this, though even popular and established stores lack them too. With a New Customer Welcome campaign you’re trying to start off a customer relationship on the right foot. It only targets new customers …
Slipping off the Average Order Value treadmill
There are about 1,030,000,000 webpages about increasing your store’s Average Order Value. (Thanks Google) Pretty popular topic right? It’s a good activity if you have nothing else to do, but in reality there are 1,000s of other things you could be doing instead of increasing your Average Order Value. So how much Average Order Value …