5. Introduction
Experience mainly based on retirement products (pensions)
All of them tried & tested...
interaction, welcome...
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6. Achieving Customer Loyalty in Savings
Understanding “why” customers leave &
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what makes them loyal
2 Establishment of metrics
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Structure Provide Effective Anti
Use of
Healthy Good Attrition &
“Surprise”
Acquisition Service Activation
trans Monitoring & Controlling of Actions
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7. Understanding “why” customers leave & what
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keeps them loyal
Customer surveys A priority list of top “exit”
“lost customers”
reasons & top “loyalty” criteria
“overall satisfaction surveys”
Preferable broken into
Consulting those involved in anti-
Type of exits
attrition & customer service
Lapse, transfer...
Call center retention team
Salesforce Early, late...
Agents
Customer segments
Listening to issues on social media
Channels
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8. 2 Establisment of Metrics
Can’t manage what you can’t measure
Metrics of loyalty + metrics of attrition + metrics of activation
Metrics of stock versus metrics of flow, [by vintage at best]
Absolute versus relative
.... but one key metric for each activity for the company....
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9. 3 Structuring Healthy Acquisition (1/2)
Embed “realistic” & “strong” attrition criteria to incentive &
compensation schemes
Sales force a mechanism taking into consideration the facts (e.g. turnover)
Agents commission clawbacks
Call center anti attrition team incentive model based on retention value not #
Usually a big change that needs to be managed carefully.... with some
conversion costs...
Very strong and immediate impact...
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10. 3 Structuring Healthy Acquisition (2/2)
Improved targeting of customers via propensity modelling
Analytics team to define “best” customers (retention, collection, activation, value)
Match those with the distribution channels’ potential customers
Structure a flow to sales force to target those leads
Incentivise sales force & customers
A big change that involves several teams and delicate data exchange
Potentially very strong long term impact...
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11. 4 Provide good service on....
Provide good service on.... whatever the customers value most
What customers value & managers think they value may not be the same
What customers value & expect usually differentiate per customer segment
What you choose to do economically, as well, potentially changes per distribution
channel as per the “roles & responsibilities”
Measure...
Very strong long term impact...
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12. 5 Use of “surprise”
Enrich customer experience by the use of “surprise”
Customer campaigns
Gift to selected clients
Customer events
These actions potentially make “fans” out of your already delighted
customer base , (which is also important) but not significantly increase
the core loyalty of your customers......
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13. 6 Effective anti – attrition and activation actions (1/4)
Dedicated central team in call center for retention
Scripts constantly reviewed
Scripts should be differentiated per exit type
Incentives aligned on value and take into consideration turnover
If possible, provide offers to help retention
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14. 6 Effective anti – attrition and activation actions (2/4)
Dedicated process for retention
Who does what, when
Different per customer segment & channel of the customer as per the “roles &
responsibilities”
May choose to “let go” certain customers, this increases the efficiency...
Effective monitoring & reporting and performance management is key...
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15. 6 Effective anti – attrition and activation actions (3/4)
Proactive & targeted anti - attrition
is there a statistically significant time to leave,
establish a life cycle action to counter that
Propensity to leave
can you or measure? establish a proactive offer
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16. 6 Effective anti – attrition and activation actions (4/4)
Activation
Timely contact, based on the preferred channel & time
Customer contact information updateness is key
Some sets of customers are gone, don’t overinvest in activation
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17. 7 Monitoring & Controlling of Actions
Monitoring & Controlling of all those actions require
dedication
empowerement
Cross functional know – how (pmo, sales, marketing)
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18. Results...
Significant increase in the
loyalty score of 2012
Understanding “why” customers leave & what generation of customers
1
makes them loyal
Attrition rate decreasing
2 Establishment of metrics
by c17% compared to
3 4 5 6
2011YE
Effective Anti
Structure Healthy Provide Good
Use of “Surprise” Attrition &
Acquisition Service
Activation 2012Q4 versus 2013Q1
exits decreasing in
7 Monitoring & Controlling of Actions absolute terms...
Collection rate increased
by c10% in 2012
Dormants are at level....
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