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Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

consumo

English translation:

spending

Added to glossary by Trudy Peters
Aug 2, 2005 20:14
21 yrs ago
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Spanish term

consumo

The website on smart cards that I'm translating talks about "consumo". Examples below:

Quizás más importante que retener al cliente sería inducirlos a mantener sus niveles de consumo.

Un gran beneficio de los programas de lealtad es conocer lo que nuestros clientes de forma particular o colectivamente quieren, es muy importante el desarrollar estrategias selectivas para los diferentes tipos de clientes con base en sus hábitos de consumo.

I'm avoiding "consumption" and have been using variations of "purchase", but I'm not 100% sure about it with "level". Has anyone got any bright ideas?

Discussion

Non-ProZ.com Aug 2, 2005:
spending's good That was what I was looking for. Thanks!
Non-ProZ.com Aug 2, 2005:
sorry... I think I led people astray. Here they're talking about loyalty programs. The context is general and the first sentence means that customer retention is all about encouraging customers to spend as much as they usually spend in the store. "Use" doesn't fit in this context.

Proposed translations

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use

level of use, for instance. How often you use the smart card.

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Note added at 17 mins (2005-08-02 20:31:15 GMT)
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Spending. Spending level/patterns (in light of your added context)
Peer comment(s):

agree Angelo Berbotto : yes - it's good
34 mins
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(level of) use/ user patterns (in second case)

:)
Peer comment(s):

agree TranslateThis
7 mins
agree Philippe Maillard
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