Customer Relationship Management and Marketing
Customer Relationship Management and Marketing
Customer Relationship Management and Marketing
What Is Marketing?
Marketing is a process by which companies create value for customers and build strong customer relationships to capture value from customers in return
What Is Marketing?
Marketing is a process by which companies create value for customers and build strong customer relationships to capture value from customers in return
Customer needs, wants, and demands Market offerings Value and satisfaction Exchanges and relationships Markets
Satisfied customers buy again and again and spread a positive word of mouth
Dissatisfied customers switch to competitors and disparage the product to others
Marketing occurs when people decide to satisfy needs and wants through exchange relationships
Assignments
1. Visit website of Maruti Udyog Ltd. And answer the following questions:
A. What needs, wants and/or demands is Maruti attempting to fill
B. Describe their marketing offers C. Describe the relationship that they have with their customers D. What are their markets
Class Assignment
In groups of 4 develop a marketing plan for a company producing and marketing organic food. Who is your target market How will you enable customers to get the best value Develop value proposition of your offering for this target market
Useful in highly competitive and price sensitive markets (PC Markets of Lenovo in China)
This concept can lead to marketing myopia
Companies adopting this orientation run a major risk of focussing too narrowly on their own operations and losing sight of satisfying customer needs and building customer relationships
Such orientation is for products which are not sought popularly. (Insurance)
Here prospects have to be tracked down and products sold on benefits
The flaw is that this orientation focusses on sales transactions than on building long-term, profitable customer relationships
Finally, it must must communicate with target customers about the offering and persuade them of its merits (Promotion)
Customer value: This is the customer's evaluation of the difference between all the benefits and all the costs of a market offering relative too those of competing offers.
Customers, often, do not judge values and costs accurately or objectively
Partners outside the company is how marketers connect with their suppliers, channel partners, and competitors by developing partnerships
Strategic alliances
Customer lifetime value is the value of the entire stream of purchases that the customer would make over a lifetime of patronage
Share of customer is the portion of the customers purchasing that a company gets in its product categories