After acquiring a customer, the goal of a company is consumer retention through various techniques, namely customer value maximization which would maximize the revenue for the company. Their main aim should be to increase the length of time period they remain loyal to business, frequency of transactions and monetary value of transactions. Maximum value is thus the product of all three. Main characteristics of customer value maximization are customer segmentation, predicting consumer behavior instead of just looking historical data, looking at customer lifetime value and dynamic segmentation. The marketer should know what actions to take on what customers at the right time. Read more at: http://www.optimove.com/blog/maximize-customer-value-smart-way