5.4 Chapter Summary

The purpose of this chapter was to explore the current models for balancing customer acquisition and retention and to provide an empirical example as to how firms can apply this knowledge to their own customer databases. We have shown that when firms are able to first understand the drivers of customer acquisition, customer retention, and customer profitability and then run some simulation exercises with these results, the firms can achieve a much higher level of profitability.

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