How To Create Customers For Life with Cole Atkinson, Senior Product Manager at Shopify

In this Greatest Hits episode of Retain, Lauren is joined by Brittany Hodak, an international keynote speaker and award-winning business leader. Brittany is widely regarded as a ‘go-to source’ for generating and retaining superfans. She’s also the co-founder of The Superfan Company, a multimillion-dollar fan-engagement agency that has created successful campaigns and products for the likes of Amazon, Disney and Walmart. This time, Brittany and Lauren discuss how to turn your customers into loyal superfans, why companies must understand what makes them superior to their competition, and how to deal with the threat of apathy.

In this Retain: The Customer Retention Podcast episode, Lauren DeSouza speaks with Sara Caldwell, newly appointed Head of Customer Success at OpenAI. Together, they discuss the importance of decision-first customer research for retention, staying connected to the customer with customer facing teams, and not forgetting the long-term.

In this Greatest Hits episode, Lauren is joined by Adrian Swinscoe, a customer experience consultant and advisor who has been growing and developing customer-focused businesses for over 20 years. Together, Adrian and Lauren discuss what aspects of the customer journey create loyalty, how much control businesses have over customer experience, and highlight that not all customers are the same.

In this Retain: The Customer Retention Podcast episode, Lauren DeSouza speaks with Kris Rudeegraap, the Co-Founder and CEO of Sendoso. Together they are unpacking the power of personal touches when it comes to customer retention, discussing the importance of humanizing the sales process, and proposing a redefinition of account-based marketing.

In this Greatest Hits episode, host Lauren DeSouza is joined by Shep Hyken, the Chief Amazement Officer for Shepard Presentations. On the show, Shep and Lauren discuss the importance of building an emotional connection with your customers, how crucial it is to give your customers the service they expect, and why companies need to avoid obsessing over longevity and instead focus on the next time, every time. Shep is an experienced speaker and an international authority on all things customer service, customer experience and loyalty in business. He is the best-selling author of eight books and has worked with a plethora of companies to help them build deep, loyal relationships with their customers and employees.

In this Retain: The Customer Retention Podcast episode, Lauren DeSouza speaks with Uzair Hamid, Founder and Community Lead of CRM DXB. Together, they discuss the importance of customer relationship management (CRM) in marketing, habit formation for retaining customers, and how to track the success of habit formation measures.

In this Retain: The Customer Retention Podcast episode, Lauren DeSouza speaks with Sandeep Dube, COO of Mailchimp. Together, they explore how customer retention can be a simple or far more complex task depending on the industry, and why a many-limbed customer research strategy is the key to understanding how to delight your customers.

In this Retain: The Customer Retention Podcast episode, Lauren DeSouza speaks with Rand Fishkin, serial entrepreneur, author and Co-Founder of SparkToro. Together they are playing devil’s advocate, by challenging the businesses industry's obsession with retention, arguing that there is real value in letting go of customers and discussing effective strategies on how to win them back.

For the final Retain episode of 2023, to wrap up the year, Lauren DeSouza is looking back over the previous 12 months to identify the biggest marketing trends of 2023. Joining her to do so is Ahmed Khairy, the CEO of Gameball. Together, the duo delve into the impact of AI on marketing strategies, how companies have moved further towards personalized shopping experiences, why user-generated content (UGC) has taken off this year, and much more.

In this Retain: The Customer Retention Podcast episode, Lauren DeSouza speaks with Glenn Poulos, entrepreneur, author and Executive Vice President of NWS. Together, they unpack the power of cultivating good relationships in business and share key strategies that will show you how to get and stay in front of customers and be a pleasure to do business with always.