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Customer engagement is the ongoing relationship between a brand and its customers — and the businesses that get it right grow faster, retain longer, and win more. Here's what that actually looks like in practice, and how you can learn to do it well. A mid-size software company had a product people genuinely liked. Reviews were solid. Churn wasn't alarming. But growth had flatlined. When they dug into the data, they found something strange: 70% of customers who churned had never contacted support. There were no complaints. No red flags. They just quietly disappeared. The product wasn't the problem. The relationship was. Or more precisely: there was no relationship. Customers bought, used the product occasionally, and felt nothing. No community. No follow-up that meant anything. No sense that the company saw them as individuals. And when a competitor showed up with a slightly better offer, there was nothing to hold them. That's the customer engagement gap. And it...