Customer Intelligence

Develop deep customer understanding through advanced analytics that reveal lifetime value patterns whilst identifying opportunities for personalisation and retention improvement. Learn customer segmentation, CLV calculation, and predictive analytics implementation that enhances customer relationships whilst improving business performance. From RFM analysis to churn prediction, master customer intelligence that drives loyalty whilst increasing profitability.

Why Summer Slumps Aren't Inevitable

with Matt EdmundsonfromAurion

The episode provides deep insights into customer behaviour patterns during seasonal periods. Matt shares research showing when customers make purchase decisions (March-May for summer), how weather affects buying patterns (17% revenue increase before heatwaves, 48% drop during), and why mobile usage intensifies seasonally. This customer intelligence allowed one team to grow 19% by understanding and planning for actual behaviour rather than assumed patterns.

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How Customer-Centric Strategies Can Transform Your Business
Laura Richard

How Customer-Centric Strategies Can Transform Your Business

Learn how to research and understand customer motivations, emotional drivers, and behaviour patterns. Laura shares practical methods for conducting customer research without massive budgets, including AI-powered questioning techniques and feedback loop strategies that reveal the emotional truth behind purchasing decisions.

Drive eCommerce Growth with Data Analytics
Joanne Davis

Drive eCommerce Growth with Data Analytics

Learn how to extract actionable insights from customer data, including lifetime value analysis, retention metrics, and behavioural patterns. Jo Davis reveals the Growth Model Framework that transforms overwhelming analytics into specific acquisition targets and growth strategies.

Decoding the Customer Journey Through Research
Peter Murphy Lewis

Decoding the Customer Journey Through Research

Learn how to decode customer behaviour through strategic research and questioning frameworks. Peter demonstrates how systematic customer conversations reveal pricing opportunities, journey optimisation insights, and competitive advantages that quantitative data cannot capture. Discover practical methodologies for understanding what customers truly value and how to translate those insights into measurable business growth.

How To Win Big: Building Relationships & Mastering Data
Neil Hoyne

How To Win Big: Building Relationships & Mastering Data

Learn how to identify and understand your most valuable customers using data analysis and predictive modelling. Neil demonstrates how Google's Chief Strategist approaches customer segmentation and why focusing on your best customers drives 60-80% of revenue growth.

The Five Levers of Growth: Harnessing Customer Data for eCommerce Success
Oliver Spark

The Five Levers of Growth: Harnessing Customer Data for eCommerce Success

Learn Oliver's systematic approach to understanding customer data fundamentals, including how to calculate true acquisition costs, lifetime value metrics, and retention rates. Discover why 80% of founders can't answer the basic question about customer requirements and how this knowledge gap impacts growth success.

Discovering The Human Element Behind The Numbers
Monica Sharma-Patnekar

Discovering The Human Element Behind The Numbers

Learn Monica's systematic approach to understanding customers through the 4D Framework (Demographics, Desires, Do, Delight) and story-based questioning techniques that reveal the emotional drivers behind purchasing decisions, transforming customer relationships from transactional to genuinely connected.

Maximising the Lifetime Value of a Customer
Valentin Radu

Maximising the Lifetime Value of a Customer

This episode is centered on understanding customer lifetime value through RFM segmentation (recency, frequency, monetary value) to identify 'soulmate' customers versus 'breakups'. Valentin provides detailed methodologies for analyzing customer data, calculating CLV, and using customer intelligence to inform business decisions across acquisition, conversion, and retention.

The Real Truth About Running an eCommerce Business During COVID 19
Kristi Soomer

The Real Truth About Running an eCommerce Business During COVID 19

Kristi emphasises a critical truth many eCommerce businesses miss: customers transformed during the pandemic and aren't the same people they were in 2019. Users will learn how to conduct customer research to understand lifestyle changes, why assumptions about customer needs prove dangerous, and practical methods for staying connected (Encircled maintains a Facebook community of 1,000+ customers). The episode reveals how to identify shifts in customer behaviour, purchasing patterns, and needs—from healthcare workers who never worked from home to customers who lost all routine and structure in their lives.

Data Driven Ecommerce
Friedrich Schwandt

Data Driven Ecommerce

The conversation covers customer analytics including transaction data analysis, understanding customer behaviour patterns, lifetime value calculations, and using data to build stronger customer relationships for profitability.

Fix Your Broken Ads
Skip Wilson

Fix Your Broken Ads

Learn how Skip's conversion equation uses customer psychology (urgency, desire, trust) combined with friction factors (delay, cost, effort) to predict and optimise campaign performance. Understand how to leverage customer awareness levels for better targeting.

The Art and Science of Acquiring Shopify Businesses
Fabio Savi

The Art and Science of Acquiring Shopify Businesses

Explore advanced customer behaviour analysis that reveals business value beyond traditional metrics. Understand why seven-month return patterns indicate stronger product-market fit than subscription models, and how predictive analytics identify genuine community engagement that drives sustainable competitive advantages.

How To Level Up Your Search For The Ideal Influencers
David Perry

How To Level Up Your Search For The Ideal Influencers

Explore how customer ownership transforms influencer value from temporary attention to permanent business assets. Discover why databases of proven buyers in specific categories become incredibly valuable, how AI learns from network-wide transaction data to improve recommendations, and why traditional metrics like follower counts miss the fundamental shift happening in creator commerce. Learn what makes customer data a sellable business asset versus followers that can't be transferred or monetised long-term.

Five Steps For Successful Amazon Branding
Drew Morgans

Five Steps For Successful Amazon Branding

Drew reveals how Amazon provides valuable customer intelligence through search intent data, geographic information, and conversion analytics that brands can leverage across all channels. He reframes the 'Amazon owns customer data' concern by highlighting the actionable insights available through advertising and zip code analysis.

Why Web Analytics Are Key to Growth
Michael Loban

Why Web Analytics Are Key to Growth

Michael discusses using analytics to understand customer behaviour, lifetime value, and purchasing patterns. He explains how direct-to-consumer businesses can leverage customer data to make smarter decisions about product upsells and retention strategies.

How to Take Small Steps to Grow Your eCommerce Profits
Tony Guarnaccia

How to Take Small Steps to Grow Your eCommerce Profits

Tony emphasizes the importance of analyzing customer data to identify patterns, calculate lifetime value (frequency × average order value × profitability over 3 years), and segment markets effectively. He stresses that businesses should study their customer lists and use platforms like Shopify and Google Analytics to track these metrics over time.

Personalising the Customer Journey to Increase Lifetime Value
Matt Barnett

Personalising the Customer Journey to Increase Lifetime Value

Matt discusses measuring customer lifetime value (CLV) and using metrics like Net Promoter Score to identify high-value customers and advocates. The episode explains how understanding which customers are most valuable allows businesses to prioritize personalized engagement for maximum ROI.