Building Customer Relationships

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Chapter
Building Customer Relationships

Relationship Marketing

Relationship Value of Customers

Customer Profitability Segments

Relationship Development Strategies

Relationship Challenges
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Relationship Marketing

is a philosophy of doing business, a strategi orientation, that


fouses on keeping urrent ustomers and improving
relationships !ith them

does not neessarily emphasi"e a#uiring ne! ustomers

is usually heaper $for the firm%

keeping a urrent ustomer osts less than attrating a ne! one

thus, the fous is less on attration, and more on retention and


enhanement of ustomer relationships
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Customer )oals of Relationship Marketing
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Benefits of Relationship Marketing

Benefits for Customers*

Reeipt of greater value

Confidene benefits*

trust

onfidene in provider

redued an+iety

Soial benefits*

familiarity

soial support

personal relationships

Speial treatment benefits*

speial deals

prie breaks

Benefits for Firms*

,onomi benefits*

inreased revenues

redued marketing and


administrative osts

regular revenue stream

Customer behavior benefits*

strong !ord-of-mouth endorsements

ustomer voluntary performane

soial benefits to other ustomers

mentors to other ustomers

.uman resoure management


benefits*

easier /obs for employees

soial benefits for employees

employee retention
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Profit )enerated by a Customer
1ver 2ime
Source* 3n e+hibit from &' &' Reihheld and 4' ,' Sasser, 5r', 67ero Defetion* 8uality Comes to Servies,99 Harvard
Business Review, September:1tober (;;<'
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Profit >mpat of ? Perent >nrease in
Retention Rate
Source* &' &' Reihheld, 6@oyalty and the Renaissane of Marketing,A Marketing Management, vol' 0, no' B $(;;B%, p' (?'
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@ifetime Value of an 3verage Business
Customer at 2elehek >nternational
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Customer @oyalty ,+erise

2hink of a servie provider to !ho you are loyal'

4hat do you do $your behaviors, ations, feelings% that


indiates you are loyalC

4hy are you loyal to this providerC

4hat fators have influened the formation of your loyaltyC


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Most profitable
customers
Least profitable
customers
What segment spends more with us
over time, costs less to maintain,
spreads positive word-of-mouth?
What segment costs us in time,
effort and money yet does not
provide the return we want?
What segment is difficult to do
business with?
Gold
ron
Lead
!latinum
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2he Customer Pyramid
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Relationship Development Model
Customer "enefits
Confidene benefits
Soial benefits
Speial treatment benefits
#elationship "onds
&inanial bonds
Soial bonds
Customi"ation bonds
Strutural bonds
$witching "arriers
Customer inertia
S!ithing osts
Core $ervice !rovision
Satisfation
Pereived servie #uality
Pereived value
$trong Customer
#elationship
%Loyalty&
Firm "enefits
,onomi benefits
Customer behavior benefits
.uman resoure management
benefits
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Strategies for Building Relationships

Core Servie Provision*

servie foundations built upon delivery of e+ellent servie*

satisfation, pereived servie #uality, pereived value

S!ithing Barriers*

ustomer inertia

s!ithing osts*

set up osts, searh osts, learning osts, ontratual osts

Relationship Bonds*

finanial bonds

soial bonds

ustomi"ation bonds

strutural bonds
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,+ellent
servie
and value
'(
Financial
bonds
)(
$ocial
bonds
*(
$tructural
bonds
+(
Customi,ation
"onds
Volume and
fre#ueny
re!ards
Bundling and
ross selling
Stable
priing
Soial bonds
among
ustomers
Personal
relationships
Continuous
relationships
Customer
intimay
Mass
ustomi"ation
3ntiipationD
innovation
Shared
proesses
and
e#uipment
5oint
investments
>ntegrated
information
systems
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@evels of Relationship Strategies
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62he Customer >s F12 3l!ays RightA

Fot all ustomers are good relationship ustomers*

!rong segment

not profitable in the long term

diffiult ustomers

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