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Question | Answer | |
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Relationship Marketing | is a philosophy of doing business, a strategic orientation, that focuses on keeping current customers and improving relationships with them does not necessarily emphasize acquiring new customers | |
Customers as Strangers | Customer who have not had any transactions, i.e. Customers of Competitors | |
Customer as Acquaintances | Customer awareness & trial achieved. Work toward loyality/satisfying the customer. | |
Customers as Friends | Once the customer is a customer, go above and beyond to offering additional value transforming the relationship to friendship. | |
Customers as Partners | Relationship deepens and firm offers more customized products. Benefit – The firm’s ability to organize & use information about individual customers more effectively than competitors. | |
Benefits of Relationship Marketing - customer | Receipt of greater value Confidence benefits: trust confidence in provider reduced anxiety Social benefits: familiarity social support personal relationships Special treatment benefits: special deals price breaks | |
Benefits of Relationship Marketing - firms | increased revenues reduced marketing and administrative costs regular revenue stream strong word-of-mouth endorsements customer voluntary performance social benefits to other customers mentors to other customers easier jobs for employers | |
Relationship Value of Customers | Concept/calculation that looks at customers from the point of view of their lifetime revenue to the company | |
Factors that influence Relationship Value | length of time “life time”. Referrals by the customer Quicken offers a calculating software | |
Relationship Value of Customers | Linking Customer Relationship Value to Firm Value – Economic Benefit – Firms market value can be roughly determined by carefully calculating customer lifetime value | Estimate the relationship value of a customer, Forcast the future growth of the number of customer Use the figures to determine the value of a company’s current & future base |