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British Gas shifts from acquisition to retention marketing to know the value of keeping the right customers

on Mar 28, 2017 | 0 comments

By Seb Joseph

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Customer acquisition may be vital to all businesses but it doesn’t let a marketer see who their customers are, which is why British Gas is pinning its push for more personalised campaigns on a strategy predicated on retention.

The country’s largest utilities provider knows it can’t rely on tariffs and price cuts to woo new customers if its existing ones are going to leave. It’s tantamount to a never-ending game of whack-a-mole, where for every few hundred thousand customers it recruits in a year, more will leave (like the some 409,000 who quit the brand last year). People need more of Read full story ›

Source: The Drum