Customer engagement is the ongoing interaction between a brand and its customers across various channels and touchpoints.
Engaged customers actively participate in a brand’s ecosystem, showing interest, sharing feedback, or advocating for the brand.
Customer engagement helps in maintaining relationships, reducing churn and boosting customer loyalty and retention.
It also reveals upselling opportunities, streamlines purchase cycles, and increases user engagement.
Measuring metrics such as Average order value, social interactions, purchase frequency, repeat purchase rates, and newsletter open rates provide insight into how well customer engagement strategies are working.
Proven customer engagement strategies involve sharing brand stories, personalizing interactions, practicing active listening, offering valuable content, collaborating on a mutual action plan, providing free, useful benefits, adopting a social media strategy, gathering and acting on feedback, and utilizing the right engagement tools.
Prioritizing customer engagement not only enriches the customer experience but also drives sustainable business growth.