Customer retention strategy.
Retention is where margin lives in restricted-market commerce — new-customer CAC is two to four times unrestricted because every acquisition channel is constrained. Retention strategy locked at the lifecycle layer: replenishment cadence, win-back automation, segment-aware reactivation, retention-stage product expansion.
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- Replenishment cadence engineering tuned to your category’s actual buying cycle
- Win-back automation for lapsed customers (typically 5–15% of the list)
- Segment-aware reactivation campaigns that don’t blast the whole base
- Retention-stage product expansion paths (entry → core → premium)
- LTV measurement tied to acquisition-channel attribution
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Cohort analysis
Customer behaviour by acquisition cohort, by category, by spend tier. Identifies where retention is leaking and where it’s already strong.
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Lifecycle map
Where the buying cycle actually lands per category — supplements: 30–60 days. Cannabis: 14–21 days. Adult retail: 60–120 days. Cadence built against the real cycle, not a generic 30-day default.
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Win-back and reactivation
Automated sequences for lapsed customers. Different message for 60-day lapsed vs 180-day lapsed vs 365-day lapsed.
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Product expansion
Customers retained on entry product get expanded to core and premium. Often where the LTV inflection actually happens.
01 What’s a good retention rate for my category?
Wildly category-dependent. Cannabis: 60–75% month-2 retention typical, 35–50% month-12. Supplements: 50–70% subscription retention, much lower one-off. Adult subscription: 40–60% month-3. Peptides: 30–50% month-12. We benchmark you against your category, not generic ecom.
02 Will improving retention hurt acquisition?
No — they’re separate workstreams. Retention improves margin and LTV; acquisition improves volume. Both compound. The mistake is treating retention as someone’s 20% job; it has to own headcount.
03 How fast does retention work compound?
Lifecycle changes show in 30–60 days. Cohort LTV impact takes 6–12 months to fully measure (you need the cohort to age). Most operators see meaningful margin lift inside 90 days; full impact lands 9–12 months in.
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