Problems we solve
When Past Customers Are Being Ignored
Direct answer
Dormant customers are past buyers who have stopped purchasing without any deliberate decision by either side. They go unworked because the business records completed jobs rather than ongoing relationships, no one owns the installed base, and new demand always feels more urgent.
What this feels like day to day
We have thousands of past customers. We have no idea which ones to call.
- No dormancy definition per service line
- Customer list scattered across systems
- Reactivation happens ad hoc in slow periods
- Past customers reappear as competitors' customers
Financial impact
- Repeat revenue left uncollected
- Higher blended acquisition cost
- Lifetime value below what the service justifies
Operational impact
- Uneven workload across the year
- No structured use of quiet periods
- Customer history that decays in value
Questions to ask internally
- What is a normal purchase interval for each service?
- How many customers are past that interval, by value band?
- Who owns the installed base?
- What would make a past customer genuinely glad to hear from us?
Metrics that reveal the problem
- Dormant count by segment
- Contact coverage of the dormant base
- Reactivation response and win rate
- Revenue from reactivated customers
First steps toward a fix
- Consolidate customer and job history into one list
- Define dormancy per service line
- Segment by recency and prior value
- Run one owned sequence on the highest-value segment before scaling
How the Blueprint evaluates this
- Customer data consolidation
- Dormancy definitions
- Segment sizing
- Sequence design and ownership
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