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Top 4 Campaigns that Reduce Churn for Subscription Service Companies

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This series of blogs goes into detailed campaigns that growth marketers can run for specific industries. These campaigns are tailored towards goals and revenue that growth marketers are responsible for. Our second industry deep dive takes a look at the subscription service industry and campaigns for growth marketers to reduce churn and increase customer loyalty.

The subscription service model is unique compared to the conventional retail sales cycle. They measure their business with different metrics and have different goals. Some metrics that growth marketers at subscription companies are held accountable for are churn, up-sell, and win-backs. Much can be done to impact each of these metrics at different stages of the customer lifecycle. Here is a breakdown of personalized emails and push notification campaigns to use for reducing churn and increasing revenue for a subscription service company.

Churn Intervention: Marketing teams can use churn score rates to create a segment of at-risk customers based on their behavior or low engagement with the product. These customers can be sent personalized offers or incentives based on their purchase or browse history to continue the subscription on day 1, 7, and 30 days after they qualify for the churn list.

Subscription Up-sell: AI driven scoring can highlight customers with high up-sell propensity based on high engagement volume with the product. These highly engaged customers are great for incentivizing to switch to the next subscription tier since they are satisfied with their current tier. These messages can be sent out 1, 7, and 30 days after they show behavior of high up-sell propensity.

Abandoned Cart: For the visitors on your site who have shared their email address but not made their first purchase or were in the middle of making a purchase but abandoned the session can be reached out to with very specific product they were looking at. Since these customers have not yet made a purchase it is imperative that the outreach be fast and timely (1, 3, 7 days after abandonment) or else they lose their intent to make a purchase or reason for considering the product in the first place.

Win-back: For those hard to convince churned customers, growth marketers can offer personalized promotions based on an uplift strategy. The cadence can be 1, 2, and 3 months after churn since you don’t want to annoy these customers who are already out of the buying cycle. They no longer see the value in the service and it’s very hard to change their mindset while not putting them off.