How Businesses Win Back Past Customers Using Referrizer Marketing Tools

Neon sign with a handshake and "win" text on each side, under a title about additional revenue with customer retention.

Local businesses usually have to deal with losing customers

Statistics show that the average company loses 23%-29% of customers each year due to lack of customer loyalty.

When we consider that there are plenty of businesses that don’t base their revenue on any monthly membership and repeat purchases, 23%-29% is huge.

Here at Referrizer we provide tools and proven processes to successfully win back past customers and generate additional revenue.

An ultimate tool for winning back past customers

Before you start randomly reaching out to customers you need to know who your past customers actually are. Contact segmentation is crucial here. For that reason Referrizer provides an easy-to-use CRM that allows you to create advanced segmentation quickly and automatically keep track of all your contacts.

In practice, our CRM tracks the date of customers’ last purchases. When they pass a certain number of days (e.g. 90 days), they will enter the segment and a win back campaign will trigger.

Win-back campaigns work best when they’re part of a broader retention plan—here’s our guide on how to improve customer retention and satisfaction to reduce churn before customers go inactive.

Our CRM system does this automatically, so there’s no lead that can fall through the crack.

With Referrizer, you have two direct ways to reach out to past customers, engage them and win them back.

Email marketing

Simple, affordable, and effective. To this day, email marketing remains one of the most profitable marketing channels. Statistics show that for every $1 invested in email marketing the average return is $42. And when it comes to using email marketing for a win back campaign it’s a huge win.

In Referrizer you also get read-to-use email templates with a proven track record so you can launch a successful win-back campaign in a matter of minutes. All this is part of our Email Marketing feature.

Here are five examples of local businesses who use these templates and what kind of results they achieved with them:

10% discount

Email offering 10% off a haircut with a chance for 20% off if feedback is provided, with a deadline of October 31, 2019.

This best shows how effective win back campaigns can be. With a simple 10% discount they managed to achieve incredible results – 67 purchases!

Total revenue of $2,412.41, 67 purchases, and 41 customers displayed with corresponding graphs.

Special package

Person performing an exercise on a mat with a laptop nearby, promoting a special offer for virtual and in-studio classes.

With a combination of an exclusive offer and discount, this campaign saw a huge win.

Total revenue of $1,000, 2 purchases, and 2 customers displayed with accompanying line graphs for each metric.

Special offer + curiosity + limited time

Yoga class with people in the background practicing. Focus on a person in the front with arms raised, under a promotional offer.

Sometimes you don’t even need to present flashy sales. You can use curiosity to get people to click on your offer to discover more.

Revenue, purchases, and customers statistics: $925 revenue, 6 purchases, and 6 customers displayed in graphs.

Multifunctional email

Loyalty and referral program offer with reward details for 25, 50, 100, and 200 points, with a happy person in the background.

This email is trying in two different ways to win back customers: with special offers and by introducing a referral and loyalty program. Did it work? Absolutely!

Total revenue of $818, 11 purchases, and 5 customers with corresponding graphs showing their growth over time.

Free trial

A person doing squats in a gym with a promotional message offering a free trial for fitness services and emphasizing safety.

Here we can see that a friendly approach works very well.

Revenue of $387, 7 purchases, and 4 customers displayed with line graphs in a dashboard-style format.

Text marketing

Email is truly great, but based on statistics email gets on average 20% open rates while text marketing gets an incredible 98%. With that kind of engagement it isn’t strange that our clients love the results they receive from text marketing win-back campaigns. However, even if text campaigns are super effective, it’s much easier to get people to give you permission for email marketing messages.

For this reason, we always recommend that our clients combine the effectiveness of text marketing and the simplicity of email marketing.

Here are some examples of successful text campaigns:

20% off

Text message offering 20% off a next purchase during Client Appreciation Week, with an opt-out option at the end.

Client appreciation week really worked – with 20% OFF they generated awesome results.

Revenue of $7,720, 20 purchases, and 13 customers displayed in a graph format, showing growth in all three metrics.

Exciting offer

Text message with a claim an offer link, encouraging the recipient to claim it, with the option to reply STOP to opt-out.

As we mentioned earlier, sometimes you don’t need to mention an offer; you can rely on curiosity.

Total revenue of $6,444.50, 91 purchases, and 64 customers, with corresponding line graphs showing progress.

50% OFF

Text message offering a 50% discount on the first month back, with a link to redeem the offer and an option to opt-out.

When you want to really get attention, a big discount is always the way to go!

Metrics showing total revenue of $5,310, 9 purchases, and 7 customers, with corresponding graphs for each.

The big discount on membership

SMS message offering a 50% discount on a 6-week membership, with a prompt to reply STOP to opt-out.

Depending on the business and targeted customers, you will need to test your offers. Sometimes you will need to offer something big for greater benefit. 50% OFF on membership isn’t much if you manage to convert some of those customers to renew their membership.

Graph displaying total revenue of $3,963.28, 28 purchases, and 18 customers, with colored lines representing each data category.

Offer in $

Text message offering a $65 monthly unlimited deal with a link to redeem the offer and an option to opt-out by replying STOP.

If you don’t offer a large discount, you can still persuade people by turning % into $ to make it more interesting.

Revenue, purchases, and customer count statistics displayed with graphs showing trends for each metric.

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Getting people to opt in

We can’t stress enough how important it is to have customers opted-in for marketing messages before you start a win back campaign. If you start randomly reaching out to past customers who never give you permission, you can greatly damage your business.

Referrizer provides advanced methods that you can use to build a customer database whether you want to collect emails or phone numbers of your customers, you have both options. In this article, you can learn how to build a customer opt-in database.

To create your first successful win back campaign, start your 14-day Referrizer free trial now and power up your business with proven marketing strategies.

Marko Zivanovic

Content Manager

I use engaging words and strategic approaches to create content that converts.

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Marko Zivanovic

Content Manager

I use engaging words and strategic approaches to create content that converts.

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