“Understanding Jewelry ECommerce Data” Series Chapters:
Part 1: Customer Lifetime Value (you are here)
Part 2: Sales Conversion Rate
Part 3: Average Order Value
Part 4: Cart Abandonment Rate
Part 5: Email Conversion Rate
Part 6: Social Media Conversion Rate
Part 7: Revenue By Traffic Source
Part 8: Customer Acquisition Cost
Part 9: Percentage Of Returning Customers
Are you collecting the right visitor and website data? Are you using that data to make better-informed decisions in your marketing plans?
With all the tracking tools and options at our fingertips, it’s hard to know where to begin. There are some crucial ecommerce metrics that every marketer must understand in order to create the right customer experience across all channels. So what should you track? There are ten metrics we’ll help you understand over the next month or so, and today we’re going to start with Customer Lifetime Value.
It is MUCH cheaper to keeping your existing customers happy so they come back and buy more of your products than always trying to attract new customers. It costs five times more to attract a new customer than it does to keep an existing one.
That’s why we need to learn if our visitors are making additional purchased beyond the initial one, and learn the weight of these purchases to our bottom line. A great way to do this is to track customer lifetime value (CLTV).
Historical CLTV – A customer’s current value based on their past purchases. This type of data should be easy to figure out just by analyzing past purchase orders.
Predictive CLTV – A forecast of a customer’s future CLTV based on past behavior.
The basic formula to determine a customer’s lifetime value is:
Average Order Value x Average Number Of Purchases Over Lifetime
You can use this formula to measure a customer’s lifetime value. You can also adjust the equation and measure a customer’s value over only the past couple of years, if you’d like.
Naturally, the way to increase customer lifetime value is to have them buy more stuff from you. One great way to do this is through upsells. I’m sure your jewelry store trains to upsell customers correctly – it should be no different online.
There are a few ways to do this. First, you can attempt to upsell your visitor on checkout. You may find a cheap item they can add to their basket (for example, if I was ordering an alarm clock from Amazon.com, they may try to upsell me batteries or something similar on checkout).
Another way to upsell existing customers online is to send them great content about 10-15 days after their initial purchase. This content can be reviews or features of higher-priced items that the customer may be interested in at a later time.