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Business Essentials
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Competition | the rivalry between two or more businesses to attracts scarce customer dollars |
| Corporate culture | the values and ideals that an organization encourages among its employees |
| Courtesy | Polite behavior; good manners |
| Customer Loyalty | the customer's preference for a business; usually expressed in regular purchases from the business |
| Customer Relations | all the activities a business engages in to interact with its customers |
| Customer Service | activities and benefits provided by a business to its customers to create goodwill and customer satisfaction |
| Customer Centric | focused on customer needs and wants |
| Etiquette | rules applying to acceptable behavior |
| FAQ'S | frequently asked questions; used by businesses to answer questions on their websites or other marketing materials |
| Incentive | something that will fulfill a customer's specific desire or need |
| Internal Customers | the people (i.e., employees) who work cooperatively together to achieve business goals |
| Patronage | loyalty to a particular business |
| Proactive | adapting to the environment in advance of the occurrence of events; taking advantage of opportunities rather than reacting to problems |
| Productivity | the amount and the value of goods and services produces from set amounts of resources |
| Respect | regard or esteem |
| Target Market | the particular group of customers a business seeks to attract |
| Touchpoints | all the opportunities that businesses have to connect with customers and reinforce their brand value |
| Word-of-Mouth Promotion | promotion for a business provided by customers who tell others of their satisfaction with the business |