The high cost of losing a customer

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How much does it cost your company when you lose a customer? Here are statistics of average cost of losing a customer.

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For every customer who bothers to complain, there are 26 others who remain silent.

The average “wronged” customer will tell 8 to 16 people.

91% of unhappy customers will never purchase services from you again.

It costs about five times as much to attract a new customer as it costs to keep an old one.

Each one of your customers has a circle of influence of 250 people or potential customers who hear bad things about you!

 

Source: White House Office of Consumer Affairs.

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majid | Email | October 25, 2007 | 4:03AM
The cost of losing 1 customer is according to some studies 4 times higher than obtaining that same customer (advertisement costs + marketing staff expenses)

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