Service 07 · Marketing Technology

Loyalty and follow-up plans that keep customers coming back.

We map how customers buy, sort them into groups and plan messages and rewards for each. A control group gets none of them, so you can see what works.

Typical first release
8–12 weeks to the first live plan
Scope
Journeys · groups · follow-ups · loyalty · stages
Standard
Measured on customers kept and their spend
Customer stages · all customersYour customer data

At-risk customers: only 58% stay active and 22% come back. How-to tips and win-back come first.

Illustrative figures, not client results: share still active by stage.

What we offer

Five parts that work together.

One team runs all five parts. Each shows what it covers and what you get, with an example.

A person adds sticky notes to a customer journey mapped across a wall
Part 01 of 5Journey mappingJourneys · key moments

Map every step the way customers see it.

Each step from first visit to repeat purchase, with where customers drop off. Tracking keeps the map current.

  • Key moments, where people drop off and how you win them back
  • What customers say and what they do, on one map per group
  • Tracking at each stage, so the map stays accurate

You get Journey maps per group

Journey map · first 90 days Illustrative
Journey map · first 90 days (illustrative)
MomentCustomer goalPain todayOwner
Day 0 · sign-upGet started quicklyThree emails in an hour (gap)Marketing
Day 7 · first valueSee a resultNo guidance (needs attention)Product
Day 30 · first billUnderstand the chargeInvoice unclear (needs attention)Finance
Part 02 of 5Customer groupsGroups · value · who may leave

Customer groups that decide who gets what.

Groups built from research and your data: who is worth most, who may buy, who may leave.

  • Groups by need and by behaviour, sized and named
  • Value tiers and scores for who may buy or leave
  • Groups set up in your CRM and data store

You get Group definitions and sizes

Customer groups · v2 Illustrative
Customer groups · v2 (illustrative)
GroupRuleSizeUpdated
New and activeJoined < 30 days, ≥ 3 visits12%Daily
At riskUsage down 40% over 4 weeks8% (needs attention)Daily
Loyal≥ 4 orders, 12 months21% (on track)Weekly
Part 03 of 5Follow-up plansOngoing · per group

Steady follow-ups, never too many.

Welcome, getting-started, community and win-back plans for each group. No customer gets more messages than the agreed limit.

  • Welcome, getting started, service, community and win-back
  • A contact plan for each group: which channel, how often
  • A limit on how many messages each customer gets

You get Contact plan & follow-up designs

Contact limits · per customer, per week Illustrative
Contact limits · per customer, per week (illustrative)
GroupEmailSMS / WhatsAppQuiet hours
New and active3 (on track)1 (on track)21:00–09:00
At risk2 (on track)1 (on track)21:00–09:00
Opted out of marketing0 (gap)0 (gap)Service messages only
Part 04 of 5Loyalty programmesRewards · tiers · costs

Loyalty, costed before launch.

Rewards customers value, such as points, tiers, perks and partners, costed in full before launch.

  • Ways to earn and spend, tiers, perks and partners
  • Recognition, access and service, weighed against discounts
  • Margin, unused points and points owed, worked out with finance

You get Loyalty design & cost model

Loyalty costs · per member, a year Illustrative
Loyalty costs · per member, a year (illustrative)
TierReward costExtra marginWorth it?
Silver₹ 240₹ 610Yes (on track)
Gold₹ 900₹ 1,450Yes (on track)
Platinum₹ 3,200₹ 2,700No · redesign (gap)
Part 05 of 5Messages for each stageCalendar · stages · owners

Every stage has an owner.

One calendar for every message, from first purchase to renewal. Some go on set dates, others when a customer acts.

  • A calendar of planned and automatic messages, first purchase to renewal
  • An owner, a measure and a control group per stage
  • A quarterly review that keeps the five parts in step

You get Message calendar & results dashboard

Message triggers Illustrative
Message triggers (illustrative)
TriggerActionControlStatus
Usage drop 40%Personal check-in call10%Live (on track)
Renewal in 30 daysValue summary email10%Live (on track)
Third orderLoyalty invitation5%Draft (needs attention)

Across all five parts

One customer record, one set of measures.

Spend over time, customers kept, customers lost and satisfaction, all from one record. We review them every quarter.

Spend · who stays · quarterly reviewControl group on every plan

How it works

Five parts, in the order a customer meets them.

Each part helps the next see who the customer is and what they need.

  1. 01 · Map Journeys How customers move across channels and into service.
  2. 02 · Group Insight Needs, value and risk of leaving, for each customer group.
  3. 03 · Follow up Follow-ups Steady messages for each group, within contact limits.
  4. 04 · Reward Loyalty Rewards costed for margin and points owed before launch.
  5. 05 · Run Calendar Messages on set dates or when a customer acts.

Timeline · 4 stages

From customer research to live plans.

Research and data work start in week 1, side by side. We check what customers say against what they do. Timings are typical and vary with scope.

Stage 01 of 4Wk 01–04

Discover

We interview customers and staff and study what they buy and do, to find where customers leave.

You get

  • Customer research
  • Analysis of who leaves
  • Current journey map

Stage 02 of 4Wk 04–07

Define

We define customer groups and map each one’s journey. We score value and risk of leaving, and agree measures with you.

You get

  • Customer groups
  • Journey maps
  • Value & risk scores

Stage 03 of 4Wk 06–11

Design

We design follow-ups, rewards and the calendar together. We test them against margin and team time, then set a launch order.

You get

  • Contact plan
  • Loyalty design & costs
  • Message calendar

Stage 04 of 4Wk 11–12

Run

The first plans go live with a control group and an owner per stage. AI drafts messages and a named person approves each one.

You get

  • Live plans
  • Results dashboard
  • Quarterly review

What you get

A relationship plan, set up in your CRM.

We write up each item and set it up in your CRM, the one place for every customer and sale.

Support agents in headsets at work in a bright customer-service room
Service momentspart of the relationship
Customer Relationship Strategy: what you get and in what format
#What you getFormat
01Customer journey maps by groupFigma · PDF
02Customer groups & definitionsModel · sheet
03Scores for who may buy, leave or spendModel · fact sheet
04Contact plan & limitsDoc · settings
05Follow-up plan designsDiagrams
06Loyalty programme design & cost modelDesign · model
07Message calendar with triggers & ownersBoard · sheet
08Customers kept & spend dashboardDashboard

What changes

Customers who stay longer, measured by join month.

Success: customers stay and spend more than a control group left out of the plans, within agreed contact limits. They are aims, not guarantees.

  1. 01

    Know your best customers

    You see who buys most, who is new and who may leave.

  2. 02

    Keeping customers becomes a plan

    Follow-ups run all year on one calendar.

  3. 03

    Loyalty that earns its cost

    Costs, unused points and points owed are worked out first, so finance backs the programme too.

Customers keptWithWithoutIllustrative

Share still active each month, with the plan and without it. Shape only. We compare customers by join month with a control group who got none of the plans.

Tools we use

Your CRM and data tools, sharing one customer record.

The CRM, data and research tools we use to design and run the work. No partnership is implied.

  • HubSpot
  • Zoho
  • WhatsApp
  • Google Analytics
  • Mixpanel
  • PostHog
  • Snowflake
  • Google BigQuery
  • Looker
  • Python
  • Miro
  • Salesforce
  • Twilio
  • dbt

Rules we build to

Relationships built on consent, recorded per purpose and channel.

We build the work to these rules. We hold no certificates for them.

  • GDPR — General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679

    General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679

    We record consent for each purpose and channel. Tracking starts only after consent (Consent Mode v2 with Google). Delete requests reach every connected tool.

  • DPDP Act 2023 — Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023

    Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023

    Notices and consent records for customers in India. If they withdraw consent, every journey and channel stops the same working day.

  • ISO/IEC 27701 — Privacy information management systems

    Privacy information management systems

    We list every tool that holds personal data, why, for how long and under what terms. The list stays current.

  • WCAG 2.2 AA — Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

    Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

    We check emails, pages and app messages before approval: contrast, image descriptions, reading order and keyboard use.

  • NIST AI RMF 1.0 — AI Risk Management Framework

    AI Risk Management Framework

    Each AI model that scores, targets or writes has an owner and a measured error rate. Past a set limit, it stops.

Offers & plans

Ways to keep customers, one part at a time.

Start with the part you need most. Each links to the others and is measured on customers kept and how much they spend.

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How to buy

  1. 01Pick offers. Ask about one, or add several to one enquiry.
  2. 02Choose a plan. A small job, a fixed project or ongoing help.
  3. 03Send your enquiry. We reply within one working day.

Browse by category

Timelines are typical. We write the scope before we quote.

01Customer journey mapping

3 offers
Typical timeline: 5–8 weeks

Customer journey mapping

Map every step customers take with you, and find where and why they leave.

What’s included

  • Customer and staff interviews
  • What customers do and buy, analysed
  • Maps per group, with key moments
  • Ranked list of fixes and ideas
  • Journeys
  • Research
  • Drop-offs

Best forBrands guessing why customers stop at a particular point.

Typical timeline: 4–7 weeks

Service map & recovery plan

Map the teams and systems behind each journey, and how you recover when things fail.

What’s included

  • Customer-facing and behind-the-scenes process maps
  • Handovers between systems and teams
  • Failure points and recovery steps
  • An owner for each step
  • Service map
  • Recovery
  • Owners

Best forBusinesses whose customer problems fall between departments.

Typical timeline: 5–9 weeks

Live journey tracking

Link the journey map to live data, so you see where customers drop off.

What’s included

  • Stages and actions defined
  • Tracking set up across channels
  • Journey health dashboard
  • Alerts when a stage gets worse
  • Tracked
  • Live
  • Alerts

Best forTeams whose journey map is already out of date.

02Customer groups & insight

4 offers
Typical timeline: 6–10 weeks

Customer grouping

Groups built from research and your data, sized, named and set up in your tools.

What’s included

  • Groups by need and behaviour
  • Each group’s size, value and profile
  • Groups added to CRM and reports
  • Guidance on using each group
  • Groups
  • Sized
  • In use
  • dbt

Best forTeams whose groups live in a deck and nowhere else.

Typical timeline: 5–9 weeks, or ongoing

Ongoing customer research

Regular interviews and surveys that explain what your data shows.

What’s included

  • Interviews and on-site observation
  • Survey design and analysis
  • Win, loss and exit interviews
  • A searchable library of findings
  • Interviews
  • Surveys
  • Library

Best forOrganisations with plenty of dashboards and no explanations.

Typical timeline: 6–10 weeks

Leave & buy-again scores

Show who may leave, buy again or upgrade, and why, so your team can act.

What’s included

  • Scores for leaving or buying again
  • The reasons behind each customer’s score
  • Risk levels in CRM and journeys
  • Accuracy checks and regular updates
  • Who leaves
  • Who buys
  • Explained
  • dbt

Best forSubscription and repeat-purchase businesses that spot leavers too late.

Typical timeline: 4–8 weeks

Customer value & tiers

What each customer group is worth over time, and how much to spend keeping them.

What’s included

  • Value over time by group
  • Cost to win and payback time
  • Value tiers, each with contact rules
  • Budget split between keeping and winning
  • Value
  • Tiers
  • Payback

Best forBusinesses setting budgets to win customers without knowing their worth.

03Follow-up plans

4 offers
Typical timeline: 4–7 weeks

Contact plan & limits

Decide who hears from you, how often and where, so no one gets too many messages.

What’s included

  • Contact plan per group and stage
  • Contact limits, priority and quiet hours
  • Rules when teams or campaigns clash
  • Set up in your sending tools
  • Contact plan
  • Limits
  • Priority
  • Salesforce
  • Twilio

Best forBrands where three teams email the same customer in one week.

Typical timeline: 5–9 weeks

Welcome & getting-started plan

Help new customers reach their first result fast, and measure how many do.

What’s included

  • The first result, defined per group
  • Welcome content, messages and tips
  • Progress tracking and help when stuck
  • Reports on time to first result
  • Welcome
  • Getting started
  • First result
  • Twilio

Best forProducts and services that lose too many customers early.

Typical timeline: 5–9 weeks

Win-back & save plan

Give at-risk customers a reason to stay, and a cheaper option before they cancel.

What’s included

  • Alerts when a customer may leave
  • Stay offers costed against margin
  • Cancel and downgrade steps
  • Saves measured against a control group
  • Save
  • Win-back
  • Control group
  • Salesforce
  • Twilio

Best forBusinesses that only notice a customer leaving after they have gone.

Typical timeline: 5–10 weeks

Referrals, reviews & community

Turn happy customers into referrals, reviews and references, and track the sales they bring.

What’s included

  • Find your happiest customers from data
  • Referral, review and reference schemes
  • Community and recognition design
  • Sales from referrals, tracked
  • Word of mouth
  • Referral
  • Reviews
  • Salesforce

Best forBrands with happy customers and no way to put that to work.

04Loyalty programmes

4 offers
Typical timeline: 6–10 weeks

Loyalty strategy & reward design

Decide what loyalty means for customers and margin, then pick the reward, points or not.

What’s included

  • Research on what customers value
  • Points and other reward options compared
  • Earn, redeem, tier and benefit design
  • Review of rivals and market
  • Strategy
  • Rewards
  • Tiers

Best forBrands planning a programme, or copying a rival’s without knowing why.

Typical timeline: 4–7 weeks

Loyalty costs & points owed

What the programme costs and earns, including unused points and points owed on your books.

What’s included

  • Cost, margin and extra sales model
  • Scenarios for points used and unused
  • Accounting for points owed, with finance
  • What-if tests before launch
  • Costs
  • Unused points
  • Points owed
  • Power BI

Best forAny brand whose finance team has to approve a loyalty programme.

Typical timeline: 10–20 weeks

Loyalty programme build & launch

Built into your shop, CRM and messages, so members can join and check their status.

What’s included

  • Ready-made tool or custom build
  • Joining, account and status pages
  • Points, tiers and perks connected
  • Launch messages and staff training
  • Build
  • Launch
  • Member experience
  • Salesforce

Best forBrands ready to launch a designed programme.

Typical timeline: 4–8 weeks

Loyalty programme review

An independent check of your programme: who uses it, its cost and what to change.

What’s included

  • How members and tiers behave
  • Cost, unused points and extra sales
  • The value of each perk
  • Ranked change plan
  • Review
  • Extra sales
  • Change plan

Best forBrands running a programme that costs more each year and proves less.

05Messages for each stage

4 offers
Typical timeline: 5–8 weeks

Message plan & calendar

A message plan for each customer stage, with an owner, measure and control group.

What’s included

  • Customer stages and who enters each
  • Message and trigger calendar
  • Owners, measures and control groups
  • Launch order by likely value
  • Stages
  • Calendar
  • Owners
  • Salesforce

Best forTeams sending campaigns with no view of the whole customer year.

Typical timeline: 8–14 weeks

Message build & launch

Messages built in your tools: triggers, content and who gets them, measured from day 1.

What’s included

  • Journey and trigger set-up
  • Message and content production
  • Who gets what, plus contact limits
  • Control groups, reports from day 1
  • Build
  • Triggers
  • Measured
  • Salesforce
  • Twilio

Best forBrands with a message plan and no one to build it.

Typical timeline: 4–8 weeks

Monthly customer reports

Who stays, who leaves and what they spend, in one clear view for leaders.

What’s included

  • Customers kept by join month
  • Trends in leaving, return and spend
  • Plan gains against control groups
  • Monthly notes and next steps
  • Join month
  • Customers kept
  • Spend
  • dbt
  • Power BI

Best forBoards asking if more customers stay and getting only stories.

Typical timeline: Ongoing, quarterly cycles

Ongoing customer team

A monthly team that runs all five parts: maps, groups, plans and loyalty kept current.

What’s included

  • Hours for planning, analysis and build
  • Quarterly plan across all five parts
  • Tests against control groups
  • Monthly review of customers and spend
  • Monthly
  • Quarterly plan
  • All five parts
  • Salesforce

Best forBusinesses whose board tracks customers kept and their spend.

Your enquiry

Tick “Add to enquiry” on any offer, choose a plan, then continue. Or enquire about one offer.

How we work with you

Ways to start, from a question to a quote.

Ask a quick question, send your project details or request a quote. The person who will lead the work reads each one in full. Services in your enquiry go with it.

Or book a 30-minute call

What are you sending?

  1. 01

    About 2 minutes3 short answers

    For a first chat, a press request or anything not ready to plan yet.

    You get A reply from a named lead

  2. 02Recommended

    About 8 minutes5 short steps

    Goals, who it is for, budget and timing, so our first reply can outline the work.

    You get Options and prices after one call

  3. 03

    About 15 minutesYour documents attached

    Your documents, deadlines and the purchasing and security rules to meet.

    You get Confirmation and a named lead

How it is priced

Each plan shows how it is priced. Work starts once we agree a written scope and price.

  • Typical length
    1–3 weeks
    Pricing
    Fixed fee
  • Typical length
    4–12 weeks
    Pricing
    Fixed price
  • Typical length
    3–9 months
    Pricing
    Fixed price per stage
  • Typical length
    Ongoing · 6-month minimum
    Pricing
    Monthly fee
  • Typical length
    6–18 months
    Pricing
    Priced per written scope
Compare what each plan includes
What each plan includes and who it suits
PlanWhat you getBest for
SprintA short, fixed job that answers one clear question.
  • Scope and result agreed before we start
  • A senior lead and the right specialists
  • A weekly review with you
  • A clear answer or a test version
An audit, a brand check or a test version of an app
ProjectOne clear job for one fixed price.
  • A written scope: what you get and how we agree it is done
  • A named project lead and a fixed team
  • A shared plan with checkpoint dates
  • Source files, yours once paid for
A brand identity, a website, a simple app or a set of tools
MilestoneA bigger build in stages you approve and pay for one at a time.
  • Stages, each with its own scope and approval
  • A go or stop review at each stage
  • Re-plan between stages as you learn
  • Pay for each stage you approve
Work too big for one contract, such as a large app
RetainerA monthly team that runs and improves what we built.
  • Team time set aside for you every month
  • Agreed response times for requests and fixes
  • A monthly review and a to-do list
  • Planned improvements, not only fixes
Monthly social media and ads, or care for live sites and apps
EnterpriseA large, long project with its own team and agreed response times.
  • A project director and a decision group
  • A team for each part of the work
  • Response times, reports and a list of risks
  • Security, legal and purchasing checks in the plan
Large companies making changes across markets, brands or business units

Questions

What teams ask about customer strategy.

Anything else, ask us directly. A short call is usually quicker than a long email.

01Is this one service or five?

One service with five parts, run by one team. You can start with one part, such as journey maps. The parts connect, and we will tell you when the next one is needed.

02Do we need points to build loyalty?

No. Points are one way among several, and often the most costly. Recognition, early access, better service and useful perks can keep customers for less. We cost the options against your margin first.

03How soon will we see results?

Welcome and win-back messages can show an effect within one or two buying cycles. Group and loyalty changes take several quarters, so we track customers by the month they joined.

04How do you prove it worked?

Every plan has a control group: customers who get none of it. We compare the two groups. Plans that add nothing are changed or stopped.

05What data do you need to start?

Your own customer data, collected with consent. That means sales, contact history, service records and past research. If data is thin, we start with research and simple groups.

Tell us what you need built.

You will talk to the lead who would run your work.

Book a call

Three ways to start

We always agree a written scope and price before work begins.

Choose one of the three ways above