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Lesson 5

Your Retention Strategy is Only as Good as Your Data

Retention isn’t just a feel-good metric, it’s your growth engine. Learn to measure, monetize, and scale loyalty as a core revenue driver.

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Turning Retention into Revenue

Retention is where profitability lives. This final lesson ties everything together and will show how to transform retention from a reactive marketing effort into a predictable revenue engine. Mandy shares frameworks for measuring retention ROI, forecasting repeat sales, and communicating impact to leadership.

Lesson Contents:

  • Calculate customer lifetime value (CLV) and retention ROI
  • Build retention dashboards that influence acquisition and finance
  • Identify opportunities to upsell and cross-sell loyal customers
  • Connect retention metrics to company-wide financial planning

Reflection Questions:

Reflection:

Take a moment to write down all of the tools you use to collect and analyze data. Under each tool, write out the strengths and weaknesses of that tool as you use it in your context.

Reflect on what you wrote down for point #1. Are there any strengths that stick out to you? What about weaknesses?

Think of one concrete way that your team could improve in the way you interact with your data.

Lesson 5

Your Retention Strategy is Only as Good as Your Data

Retention isn’t just a feel-good metric, it’s your growth engine. Learn to measure, monetize, and scale loyalty as a core revenue driver.

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Turning Retention into Revenue

Retention is where profitability lives. This final lesson ties everything together and will show how to transform retention from a reactive marketing effort into a predictable revenue engine. Mandy shares frameworks for measuring retention ROI, forecasting repeat sales, and communicating impact to leadership.

Lesson Contents:

  • Calculate customer lifetime value (CLV) and retention ROI
  • Build retention dashboards that influence acquisition and finance
  • Identify opportunities to upsell and cross-sell loyal customers
  • Connect retention metrics to company-wide financial planning

Reflection:

Take a moment to write down all of the tools you use to collect and analyze data. Under each tool, write out the strengths and weaknesses of that tool as you use it in your context.

Reflect on what you wrote down for point #1. Are there any strengths that stick out to you? What about weaknesses?

Think of one concrete way that your team could improve in the way you interact with your data.

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