Customer Equity | Value, Brand and Retention

by Gavriel Shaw

The book 'Driving Customer Equity: How Customer Lifetime Value is Reshaping Corporate Strategy' defines customer equity as 'the total discounted lifestime value of all of an organizations customers'.

Three drivers of customer equity are identified:

  • Value equity – perceptions of an organizations quality, price and convenience. These perceptions are cognitive, objective, and rational
  • Brand equity – Emotional, subjective and sometimes irrational perceptions of image, quality, prestige, or other emotional forms of desirability.
  • Retention equity – Recent of purchase as positively effecting favorable brand loyalty

Customers must become an element of the organizations summary of key performance indicators:

Track profit goals for various customer segments, and clearly differentiate customer groups based on value.

  • Most valuable customers (MVCs) – depending on how you define 'valuable'
  • Most Growable Customers (MGCs) – Niche areas that have high growth potential
  • Most Costly Customers (MCCs) – removed from further promotional activities

Originally posted 2008-08-17 12:55:10.

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