| 2012 | | Relationship Marketing Approaches in Services Marketing | | | Over the last years the focus of marketing has changed from transactional to relationship marketing because companies realized that is cheaper to keep old customers rather than attracting new ones. Also this shift has occurred because of the intense rivalry that can be noticed in every industry. Besides its main goal of retaining customers and encouraging repeats‚ relationship marketing also creates value
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Customer relationship management ------------------------------------------------- Assessment N°1 Word count: 2035 Lesson leader: Dan Bennett The customer relationship management is defined as a widely-implemented strategy for managing a company’s interactions with customers‚ clients and sales prospects. It involves using technology to organize‚ automate‚ and synchronize business processes—principally sales activities. The relationship with child
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FACULTY OF COMMERCE MARKETING DEPARTMENT Some Scholars like John Pestrof regard R M as “old wine in a new bottle” while others regard it as a new approach representing a paradigm shift Discuss (30) Relationship Marketing can be defined as a strategy that is used by business organisation to learn more about customer’s mood and behaviours so as to develop stronger relationship with them. Peter Druker stated that the purpose of the business
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and review an article that focuses on the corporate culture in relationship marketing. (The role of corporate culture in relationship marketing – Ilesias.O et.al‚ 2009) Methodology : The paper used a qualitative methodology involving interviews of related personnel. The interviews were then analyzed throught the grounded theory method. Conclusion : It was learnt that there are two key values that are needed to put relationship marketing in effect‚ which are client orientation and high degree of concern
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1: The term Relationship Marketing (RM) was used by Berry (1983) in relation to Transaction Marketing (TM). He used RM as a tool to challenge the dominant practices and theories within the TM paradigm. There was a growing concern that a firm’s objectives should be more than attraction‚ they should maintain and develop relationships with all stakeholders. Furthermore‚ TM treated consumers as passive participants that were available in great numbers. It was during this period of ambiguity that RM was
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long term relationship association‚ characterised by purposeful co-operation and mutual dependence on the development of social‚ as well as structural bonds with consumer”. Many marketers agree that by reducing customer’s to competitors defection by only 5 per cent‚ companies can improve profits by anywhere from 25 per cent to 95 per cent. There is no question this will be a great advantage and could benefit any retailer. It is for this very reason why consumer’s relationship marketing and using
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Marketing Some analysts hold the opinion that nowadays the essence of marketing is not a customer service‚ but beating business rivals; but classic definitions support another viewpoint. Philip Kotler‚ the world’s foremost expert on the strategic practice of marketing‚ states that "marketing is the science and art of exploring‚ creating‚ and delivering value to satisfy the needs of a target market at a profit". The most comprehensive definition‚ in my opinion‚ was given by the American Marketing
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There are many keys principles of relationship marketing. Firstly‚ company need to identify their potential customers before setting up a business. The company needs to find out what types of customer that their business target for. The business will only grow bigger if they understand the customers’ needs and wants. Besides‚ the company may use some promotional strategies in order to meet their appropriate customer and even prospects. For example‚ Toy ‘r’ us is a company that selling various kind
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Spring 2010 (Jan-Jun) Master of Business Administration-MBA Semester 4 MK0006 – Services Marketing and Customer Relationship Management - 2 Credits (Book ID: xxxxxxx) Assignment Set- 1 (30 Marks) Note: Each question carries 10 Marks. Answer all the questions. Q.1 a. What do you mean by physical evidence in services? Give examples. (5 marks) b. Write a note on service development. (5 marks) Q.2 a. Briefly explain the terms “customer expectation” and “customer perception”. (6 marks) b. What
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Relationship Marketing Report of KCRC Abstract KCRC is a public transport provider in Hong Kong. East Rail comes into service in 1910 as a single-track system. From time to time‚ from steam-hauled to electrification‚ the Kowloon Canton Railway Corporation (KCRC) is established in 1982‚ which is wholly government owned and have a managing board appointed by the government to monitor the system operations. Today‚ however‚ after nearly a century since its establishment‚ improvement is needed for
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