Customer Lifecycle Management

Managing customers throughout their lifecycles is the fundamental process required to proactively achieve desired business results

The defined customer objectives and results determine which stages of the lifecycle on which to focus and their respective strategies, tactics, measures, and economics.


The customer lifecycle is the series of interactions that transform leads into prospects, prospects into customers, and customers into raving loyalists. Depending upon a variety of factors, a lifecycle can be long and profitable or short and wasteful.

Converting prospects into profitable long term customers requires:

  • Understanding and approaching the customer lifecycle as a manageable, measurable process
  • Creating and exchanging ever increasing mutual value through continuous learning
  • Insuring that the strategies, tactics, tools, skills and measures applied at each step of the process are appropriate for the specific step and for the particular customer/company circumstances.
 

Few assets are more valuable than a company’s customer base. Yet most companies are more systematic about managing their office supplies than their customers.