Counting Your Customers: Who-Are They and What Will They Do Next?

This article is concerned with counting and identifying those customers who are still active. The issue is important in at least three settings: monitoring the size and growth rate of a firm's ongoing customer base, evaluating a new product's success based on the pattern of trial and repea...

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Published in:Management science 1987-01, Vol.33 (1), p.1-24
Main Authors: Schmittlein, David C, Morrison, Donald G, Colombo, Richard
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Birth control
brokerage firms
Brokerages
Business structures
Consumer behavior
Customer bases
Customers
Heuristics
Management science
Market segmentation
Marketing
Marketing strategies
Mathematical analysis
Mortality
new product introductions
poisson process
Probability
probability mixture models
Purchasing
Securities industry
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brokerage firms
Brokerages
Business structures
Consumer behavior
Customer bases
Customers
Heuristics
Management science
Market segmentation
Marketing
Marketing strategies
Mathematical analysis
Mortality
new product introductions
poisson process
Probability
probability mixture models
Purchasing
Securities industry
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