Improve your Customer Analytics with Machine Learning
by David Hunt Data Geek and Analytics FanaticWith the growth and expansion of marketing in different
industries, there is an enormous amount of data generated. Analysis of the data
is crucial in understanding how the marketing has fared and more importantly
deducing ways to improve it further. However, tackling such data manually is a
near impossible feat. Today, we employ computers to do most of that analysis.
Machine learning has derived itself from the advent of big
data and it is now seen as an important tool and an alternative to traditional
analytics. Machine learning is teaching computers to learn from previously
stored data and predict future outcomes. The systems learn from each cycle of
application and refine themselves with each use. It’s defined as the study and
construction of algorithms that can learn from and make predictions on data.
Machine learning has applications in all industries – the
key feature being that it is a self-learning technology. Modern day call
centers have machine learning enabled to handle simpler customer queries or
concerns without intervention of humans – thus saving a great deal of overhead.
Beyond these obvious utilities, machine learning is now deemed as the future –
the backbone of self-driving cars, multi-lingual analytics tools. These more
complex activities are made possible via deep learning and multi-layered neural
networks.
The importance of machine learning stems out from the fact
that machine learning when implemented correctly can make customer interactions
much smarter. The key objective is to offer an exceptional experience to the
users to turn them from visitors to customers.
Customer retention
Customer retention is the art of retaining your existing
users by offering them a superior experience in your platform. Owing to the
plethora of options the user has in the market today, it is natural for them to
be dissatisfied easily and moving over to other competitors. Acquiring new
customers is costly, retaining them is cheap.
Customer retention
analytics with machine learning
Customer retention analytics is now possible with machine
learning. Companies can base their offerings on predictive customer analytics
rather than speculations.
Customer analytics for retention can help a company understand
which personas are more prone to churning and which to retention. This provides
actionable insights that can help make more effective product and marketing
decisions.
Customer retention analytics using machine learning can
predict future customer behaviour using past customer interactions and data.
Enterprises can analyse and track various data points like demographics,
transaction history, call history, website analytics etc. create customer
personas and models.
During the model training process, this data will be used to
find correlations and patterns to create the final trained model to predict
customer retention using predictive analytics. This can determine the churn patterns to the most granular
level, telling you which exact account are more like to churn. This can help
the company tailor customized messaging and offering to reduce the chances of
churn. Customer service can be improved for those accounts which can convince
them to retain their associations.
However, customer analytics with machine learning is not
entirely devoid of challenges. Deploying models written in different languages
is not easy. Another challenge is overcoming the cost of time lost to building,
training, testing, deploying, and managing a model, let alone multiple in a
machine learning program.
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