We know from our customer feedback that clienteling works. Not for just our own users, but for the retail industry as a whole, personalized shopping experiences coupled with targeted marketing messaging leads to higher sales and more loyal customers. But as wonderful as anecdotal evidence is – just like our Endear CRM itself – we’re all about data.

We’ve aggregated thousands of retail teams’ worth of data to see just how impactful a great CRM platform can be for brands. And as we highlight the data that we’re seeing, it also tells the story of how better clienteling strategies are changing the game when it comes to winning over shoppers.

Let’s take a tour of the state of clienteling in three charts you won’t find anywhere else.

When measuring a customer’s lifetime value, it’s not just about the average order value of their purchases. What also increases CLTV is each customer’s purchase frequency. And surprise, surprise: the more a shopper loves your brand, the more they tend to shop.

One thing that Endear helps brands accomplish is to literally endear themselves to their customers. By elevating their online shopping experience through more accurate and relevant product recommendations, or making shoppers feel known by helping create segmented, personalized marketing messaging, our CRM makes offering that clienteling experience easy. And here’s the difference that this makes when it comes to purchase frequency:

One of the main features of Endear is the ability to craft personalized email and text campaigns, and as the data shows, better messaging goes a long way to motivate customers to shop more often. Whether it’s due to being top-of-mind, or because the right products came across their inbox at the right time, your brand is leaving money on the table by not leveraging a clienteling retail CRM platform.

Omnichannel retail has taken the industry by storm in the last five years, with brands understanding that intelligently blending both in-store and online clienteling can equal more than the sum of its parts.

For example, when a customer can easily start a virtual conversation with your sales rep about a certain product, then walk into the store to meet that rep who has already pulled that very item in her size, that seamless experience makes shopping not just easier, but more profitable for the brand.

Unfortunately, only a few brands really incorporate omnichannel strategies.

A fundamental part of good clienteling is engaging in a dialogue with your customers. Instead of mass email promotions with a no-reply, brands that encourage conversation through their messaging typically see a higher frequency of purchase.

In Endear CRM, small teams can manage 2-way messaging through a single interface, chatting with customers via SMS or responding to emails. Because communication is the life-blood of great customer service, our data shows some incredible results stemming from dialogue.