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Help! My main contact left, and I’m panicked!

Strategy Driven

Who else is influenced by or involved with your product? They represent the best possible NEW customer. ’ The more mature and solid a value-based relationship has been built with the key contact AND the rest of the company, the more likely it will be that the new person will continue doing business with you.

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With Tweet-to-Buy, American Express Values its Community at $10

Harvard Business Review

This is usually calculated as the expected net profit attributed to purchases during the entire relationship between a business and its customer. The company is better off offering a discount today, because that will likely increase the customer's loyalty, and loyalty increases the CLV.