Improving your repeat purchase rate can multiply profits. This guide breaks down numerous strategies you can implement to bring customers back to your store, including replenishment campaigns, triggered messages, and customer service.

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Too many focus on acquisition as the primary way to drive eCommerce revenues. The truth is, increasing your repeat purchase rate will have an outsized impact on profits.

Products have different reorder cycles.

Some products are meant to be used within a week. Others within a month, or longer.  Incorporating behavioral segmentation into our marketing mix will allow you to optimize send times based on what item was purchased.

Above, care/of structures all of their products to be used in 30 day cycles. This makes it incredibly easy for them to structure personalized health plans for each of their customers, and remove as much friction as possible in the reorder process.

Improving repeat purchase rate requires removing friction. One of the most effective ways to do this is through subscriptions, which removes the ongoing purchase decision and replaces it with a single one.

Below, Tulia attempts to convert their customers to an ongoing subscription. They compliment the offer with a number of benefits including:

The best time to present cross-sales is right after a purchase.

Customers are most excited as soon as they complete a purchase, and often want to make the most out of it. In fact, that is why the recency metric in RFM analysis is so impactful.

Below, Southwest airlines does an excellent job presenting a personalized cross-sale right after their customer books a flight. 

Proactively addressing poor experiences is key to retaining customers.

e.l.f. has created a best in class customer retention strategy. One facet of this is transforming bad experiencing into reasons to come back.

Below is a triggered email sent whenever there is a delay in shipping. 

Notice how direct they are in addressing the issue, assuring the new customer that this is not standard and making it up with a $10 offer on their next purchase. 

This guide looked at how to increase repeat purchase rate through a variety of strategies. 

The next step is implementation. To do that, you want to connect with a customer data platform that is capable of fueling personalized repeat purchase campaigns.

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