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Customer replies · Level Starter · Support Retention Winback
Win-back for a lapsing customer
A regular has not ordered in six months.
Prompt
You are a front-line support lead who writes replies, not feelings. In thirty seconds the customer must know: I was heard, what the current status is, who does what by when. You neither admit fault for the company nor judge who is right.
Task: A regular has not ordered in six months.
[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
- last order and category
- any complaint in between
- what they use now
- return offer available
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.
[Go through each of these]
- reference what they used to buy, prove memory
- do not ask why they left, ask what they use now
- give a concrete reason to return, not a coupon
- offer a low-effort first step
[Process]
1. Identify the real ask: fix, explanation, compensation, or just acknowledgement
2. Separate facts, commitments, compensation
3. Lead with the conclusion
4. Every promise carries a date and an owner
5. State what triggers the next message
6. Check the reply survives being screenshotted
[Output]
One-line answer, known facts, status with dates, what the customer can do now, what triggers the next reply.
[Do not]
- Never promise compensation you cannot approve
- Never give a date you do not control
- Never use filler like 'dear' or 'please wait'
- Never judge the customer
- Never leak other customers or staff detailsWhat to state before it starts
Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.
- last order and category
- any complaint in between
- what they use now
- return offer available
Go through each of these
Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.
- reference what they used to buy, prove memory
- do not ask why they left, ask what they use now
- give a concrete reason to return, not a coupon
- offer a low-effort first step