Our Work

Satisfaction and Loyalty
Retention and Churn
Product Mix Optimization
Acquisition Modeling
Channel Optimization
Response Analysis
Advertising Effectiveness
Demand Estimation
Pricing Decisions

1.

Challenge:

A leading provider of satellite subscription services was suffering from excess customer churn.

Action:

ThinkVine helped them identify at-risk customers and reverse the overall subscriber attrition rate.

Result:

The retention programs were targeted at the identified at-risk subscribers and decrease overall churn by 8%.

2.

Challenge:

A large travel agency requested assistance in the improvement of their direct marketing program effectiveness.

Action:

ThinkVine evaluated campaign history and product usage to generate direct marketing targets in travel and automobile-related services.

Result:

The program generated a 20% improvement in response rate to the client's direct marketing campaign.

3.

Challenge:

Optimize a channel strategy for one of the world's top branded products.

Action:

ThinkVine delivered a decision support tool for the analysis of disparate sources of sales and market research data.

Result:

Increased the effectiveness in developing sales and marketing collateral as well as improving their positioning as experts in managing the specific channel.

4.

Challenge:

Help our client identify and understand the drivers of cross-channel purchasing behavior.

Action:

ThinkVine gathered information from multiple sources and ran a consumer simulation model.

Result:

Improved strategic planning by gaining important insight in how various marketing components are related from one sales channel to another.

5.

Challenge:

Some of client’s revenue opportunities were under-performing as a result of ineffective pricing.

Action:

ThinkVine created a decision tool and economic models that use advertising billing data to simulate advertiser reactions to changes in pricing.

Result:

The tool is utilized to optimize advertising rate structures to maximize profitability while maintaining advertising levels.

6.

Challenge:

Client needed to understand the relationship of consumer usage behavior and customer satisfaction to overall loyalty.

Action:

ThinkVine created a construct around key drivers of loyalty among competitors, to generate a landscape of the consumer credit card industry.

Result:

Client was able to optimize customer service expenditures around those issues that had the greatest impact on customer value.

7.

Challenge:

A market-leading enterprise software company needed to restructure their pricing.

Action:

ThinkVine designed pricing and bundling configurations that satisfied functional requirements dictated by the market.

Result:

The resulting multi-tiered product configuration scheme and user interface are now selling points of the software package and enables users to incorporate flexible tiered-pricing models.

8.

Challenge:

A major public utility wanted to give its customers the ability to select from a variety of optional services.

Action:

ThinkVine generated a three-dimensional segmentation solution based on value, needs, and ability to pay.

Result:

The utility now offers services appropriate to all of its residential customers, including a value-based approach