Download or read book Managing Market Relationships written by Adam Lindgreen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sole reliance on traditional marketing practices can cost a lot of money for little gain. That's why establishing, developing, and maintaining market relationships with customers and other stakeholders is often hailed as an effective means to achieve a sustained competitive market advantage. Despite this, the benefits of relationship marketing remain uncertain, and efforts in this arena often fail. Managing Market Relationships explains what relationship marketing entails, how it is implemented, how it evolves, and how it is controlled. Building on research with colleagues, Adam Lindgreen argues that companies must add value - either through their products and services or through their relationships, networks, and interactions. Readers are introduced to the buyer-seller market exchange model that recognizes the importance of relationship marketing but argues that it should co-exist with traditional marketing. The book offers guidance on how to develop, involve, and evaluate management and employees in relationship-building market activities. To avoid the one-size-fits-all approach to relationships, that so often leads to the premature death of managers' efforts, a relationship management assessment tool is provided that helps companies to question, identify, and prioritize critical aspects of relationship marketing. This timely and comprehensively researched book is essential reading for researchers, those involved in the professional training and development of marketers, and higher level students and practitioners who will want to learn more about relationship marketing, relevant research methodologies and how to use sound managerial models and tools.

Download or read book Strategic Market Relationships written by Bill Donaldson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-05-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic Market Relationships, 2nd Edition develops the reader’s understanding of the nature, relevance and importance of creating and sustaining relationships as a strategic resource. It takes a managerial perspective to the study of relationships, from strategy to implementation. The first edition was the first text that comprehensively addressed relationships as a strategic issue, and considering relationships as strategic and as a basis for competition is central to this book. In a nutshell, strategic market relationships is the process of analyzing, formulating and implementing a relationship strategy for an organisation. The new edition is being totally restructured in the light of teaching experience with the book and new research since it was published. Most of the existing content will still be there but presented in a new logic. Continues to map relationships from strategy to implementation Text more clearly divided into strategy and implementation parts Continues to focus on close relationships and on the management of relationships Continues with introductory case illustration and end of chapter teaching cases with many new ones All chapter updated with new research since the last publication Revamped chapter on relationship planning including a stronger focus on strategic choice and relationship development New chapter on relationship types/archetypes to develop on the theme of classification and the management of specific relationships New chapter on organizing relationships New chapter on people and relationships E-relationship chapter integrated into chapter on communication and dialogue in a relationship New chapter on channel relationships Chapter on relationship performance restructured around costs and value. Ethics and researching relationships expanded in the conclusion chapter

Download or read book Managing Markets and Customers Revised Edition written by Elearn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stuck for ideas, inspiration or just want to work differently? Management Extra brings all the best management thinking together in one package. The books are practical and well structured to provide an in depth treatment of these management topics. Titles in the series: * Business Environment * Change Management * Development for High Performance * Effective Communications * Financial Management * Information and Knowledge Management * Leadership and Management in Organisations * Leading Teams * Making Sense of Data and Information * Managing Markets and Customers * Managing for Results * Managing Health, Safety and Working Environment * Managing Legal and Ethical Principles * Managing Yourself * Positive Working Relationships * Project Management * Quality and Operations Management * Reaching Your Goals Through Innovation * Recruitment and Selection * Reputation Management The series fuses key theories and concepts with applied activities to help managers examine how they work in practice. The books are created with individuals in mind. They are designed to help you improve your management skills. Management Extra can also be used in conjunction with management programmes of study aligned to standards. Each of the books has case studies, self assessments and activities all underpinned by knowledge and understanding of the frameworks and techniques required to improve performance. Management Extra provides managers and trainers with a handbook for action and development. "You found it – what a find! A practical resource packed with all the relevant theory and suggested activities to support your professional development. An essential resource to have at your fingertips, jump in and enjoy." --Russell Jeans, Learning and Development Manager, ntl "All the essential concepts are here, presented in an easily digestible format with lots of up to date case studies and references – but, most importantly, with plenty of thought provoking activities and self-diagnostic exercises to make the learning personal and transferable." --Peter Manning, Head of Training & Development, News International Newspapers Ltd

Download or read book Changing Market Relationships in the Internet Age written by Jean-Jacques Lambin and published by Presses univ. de Louvain. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay attempts to structure a forward-looking approach to the evolving role of marketing in today's economy. Many organisations today recognize the need to become more market responsive in the global and interconnected market in which they operate.

Download or read book Managing Markets and Customers written by Elearn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More and more managers are looking for customer focus to help fight the pressures of rising costs, global competition and falling sales. But it’s not simply a case of trying to get closer to your customers. There are more strategic decisions that if made can make your marketing more lean, more focused and more successful. Managing Customers and Markets explores what market orientation means and the key things you need to be able to do as a manager to make a difference. Understand market orientation and what it means for you Recognise ways you can contribute to customer value in your organisation. Explore how to improve customer satisfaction and customer relationships Evaluate your competitive advantage and changes that could be made to structure, products and services to enhance the offer Identify techniques for developing new markets and products.

Download or read book Creating Effective Sales and Marketing Relationships written by Kenneth Le Meunier-Fitzhugh and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should corporate sales and marketing teams operate collaboratively in a 21st Century to enhance performance in the marketplace? This publication provides insights into how and why con ict and/or separation has grown up between the sales and marketing functions in many organizations, and what senior managers can do to counter this. Sales and marketing functions have the capabilities required to assist the organization to adapt to rapidly changing environments by focusing on customer needs and the activities of competitors. To gain the maximum bene ts for the organization, sales and marketing need to interact effectively and communicate both formally and informally. Creating Effective Sales and Marketing Relationships will consider the resourcing of sales and marketing, and how innovative processes can reduce conflict and promote mutual understanding.

Download or read book Business Relationships for Competitive Advantage written by A. Cox and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-12-19 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first summary and critical appraisal of the thinking that currently informs the management of business relationships, from the perspectives of both the buyer and supplier. The authors argue that these approaches are one-dimensional and instead recommend a more holistic approach based on power, interaction and portfolio perspectives. The book provides evidence of how relationships can be aligned and misaligned in practice, using eighteen examples drawn from a variety of business cases and circumstances.

Download or read book Marketing Management written by Svend Hollensen and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2003 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marketing Management: A Relationship Approach takes the unique approach of linking relationship marketing to the traditional market planning models, which are used by most marketers today. The importance of the firm, not only to have good relationships with their customers but also with the other actors in the value net, such as suppliers, competitors, supplementors and the firms own personnel, and how this, in turn, will develop the firm's competitive advantage, is paramount. This "new" holistic approach to the marketing planning process is illustrated throughout the book with real company examples.

Download or read book Relationship Marketing written by Martin Christopher and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relationship Marketing: Creating Stakeholder Value extends the analysis of the change in the marketing rationale from a crude concern for increased market share to a strategy aimed at creating long-term profitable relationships with targeted customers. Offering a cutting edge vision of relationship marketing, Relationship Marketing: Creating Stakeholder Value is a seminal text for all students and managers in the field. With new up-to-date case materials and examples of best practice, the book covers all the stakeholder markets - employees, suppliers, influencers, customers and consumers - for which the relationship approach is critical. It also provides crucial advice on how to develop, integrate and implement the various strands of a successful relationship strategy.

Download or read book The role and value of long term relationships in business to business environment written by Oliver Florian Friede and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2002-12-03 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: 1,3 (A), University of Tampere (School of Business Administration), course: Buying Behaviour, language: English, abstract: The profitability of any company and stability in its activity depends on the preferences of their customers. Marketing mix also plays a very important role. Analysing custom-ers company should choose the product to produce, price for which to sell, place of selling, the strategy of distribution and advertising. Company should not ignore their competitors. During recent years the importance of inter-company relationships has been widely recognised. Customers are always searching for suppliers that can and are prepared to meet their requirements. To make a right decision it is necessary to analyse the market. That is the work of departments. The relationships between buy-ers and sellers are rather like the relationships between people. Two companies are surviving due to each other. Relationships exist between all suppliers and their cus-tomers in business markets. The decision that managers of a company face are mainly how to achieve that relationship and what sort of relationships they would like to have. Company have to set priorities between their different relationships, allocate resources accordingly and manage them individually. An important task to build rela-tionships with the customers, which will span not just several months but be counted by decades. Long-term relationships company behave according to the values that create genuine trust over time: quality, honesty, accountability and fairness. To serve clients now and as far into the future as they may need a company. Company have to strive to build long-term relationships with our customers this enables both partners to share in the economic benefits and trust established by a continued relationship.

Download or read book The Relationship Marketer written by Soren Hougaard and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-03-14 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Relationship Marketer", Søren Hougaard and Mogens Bjerre explain how the concept of the dyad (i.e., mutuality, or "you and me") is quickly becoming a fundamental principle in marketing. The authors suggest that understanding customer relationships, value co-creation, and customised business models in which effectiveness is evaluated on an individualised basis leads to outstanding business performance. Based on these principles the authors present a concrete and practically manageable framework for implementation. Readers will find surprising, useful, and applicable marketing models, typologies and tools, as well as guides to the systematic generation of strategic opportunities. "The Relationship Marketer" will be valuable reading for students and professionals in sales and marketing, as well as anyone seeking insights into dyadic market forces, which are moving industry beyond the outdated perspective of treating all customers equally.

Download or read book Partnering with the Frenemy written by Sandy Jap and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2015-11-28 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected as a finalist for the 2018 Leonard L. Berry Marketing Book Award! Why do crucial business partnerships and alliances fail so often and how can you keep it from happening to you? Partnering with the Frenemy answers these questions, helping you anticipate, prevent, and solve the problems that lead close business relationships to implode. Drawing on cutting-edge research, Sandy Jap illuminates the widespread “frenemy” phenomenon in organizational partnerships, where partners who start as non-competitive “friends” become “enemies” over time. She identifies key economical and structural causes of “frenemization,” in which success creates imbalances in power dynamics, leading partners to generate resentment, contempt, and often direct competition. She also illuminates crucial social causes for partnership failure, where seemingly innocuous acts of interpersonal opportunism and “sins of omission” gradually poison collaboration. To support her insights, she offers numerous case studies, both ongoing and historical, including Samsung/Google, Martha Stewart/Macy’s, Oracle/Sun Microsystems, Best Buy/Apple, Calvin Klein/Warnaco, and Nike/Footlocker. Most important, she offers specific recommendations for avoiding problems, revitalizing weakening partnerships, and recognizing when a partnership can’t be saved. IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT CONTRACTS AND MONEY Understand how to better manage emotions, suspicions, and expectations from Day 1 WHAT YOU CAN LEARN FROM OTHERS’ FAILING PARTNERSHIPS Anticipate, prevent, and mitigate the core causes of business relationship failure RECOGNIZE PARTNERING “OPPORTUNISM” BEFORE IT DESTROYS COLLABORATION Fix partnering problems while you still can IT’S NOT A MARRIAGE: HOW TO BECOME COMFORTABLE SAYING GOODBYE Know when to end a partnership, and how to part as “friends”

Download or read book Managing Markets and Customers written by Pergamon Flexible Learning and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More and more managers are looking for customer focus to help fight the pressures of rising costs, global competition and falling sales. But it's not simply a case of trying to get closer to your customers. There are more strategic decisions that if made can make your marketing more lean, more focused and more successful. Managing Customers and Markets explores what market orientation means and the key things you need to be able to do as a manager to make a difference. Understand market orientation and what it means for you Recognise ways you can contribute to customer value in your organisation. Explore how to improve customer satisfaction and customer relationships Evaluate your competitive advantage and changes that could be made to structure, products and services to enhance the offer Identify techniques for developing new markets and products. * Authoritative but accessible and lively material * New, exciting and flexible approach to management development

Download or read book Strategic Relationship Marketing written by Soren Hougaard and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is more and more evidence that shows economic effectiveness and quality in customer relations must be viewed as a separate strategic issue in marketing. This book encompasses strategical as well as operational points of view and gives a complete overview of strategic relationship marketing and the theoretical rationals and paradigms. The authors introduce the concept of relationship networks and discuss how to deal with the influence of relationship. Relationship marketing is dealt with as a real marketing discipline integrating economics, institutional factors, behavioral aspects and strategy.

Download or read book The Importance of Customer Relationship Management in Business Markets B2B written by Timo Beck and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Customer Relationship Management, CRM, grade: 1,0, University of St Andrews, course: Business Marketing, language: English, abstract: The business-to-business (B2B) landscape is rapidly changing due to a variety of trends: The evolving end-customer expectations drive companies to be more responsive and provide a better value-proposition to their customers. This has translated into business markets, demanding greater responsiveness, reliability, and quality consciousness from supplying firms (Sheth & Shainesh, 2001: 274). Market consolidation as a result of a wave of mergers and acquisitions in many industries during the past two decades forces many companies to focus on the few large customers that survived (Narayandas, 2003: 1). Globalization, hyper-competition, the rapid rise of information technology, and the commoditization of many products through e-commerce have resulted in better visibility of demand and supply and lower switching costs. Logistics and communication advances have made buying from across the globe as easy as buying locally (Schäfer, 2007: 10). All this has lead to an erosion of customer loyalty and the ability to seek lower priced, better quality options from a wide variety of suppliers instantaneously. Therefore, building customer loyalty through relationship management is not a choice anymore for most businesses; it is crucial for the achievement of sustainable competitive advantage (Sheth & Shainesh, 2001). This report to the head of marketing of an imaginary business-to-business supplier aims to discuss the implementation of a customer relationship management (CRM) system. More specifically, the author will define the relevant terms, outline the suggested CRM techniques, and highlight their potential benefits and limitations. At the end, some final conclusions and recommendations will be presented.

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Download or read book Total Relationship Marketing written by Evert Gummesson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-01-05 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition of Total Relationship Marketing confirms it as a classic text on the subject of relationship marketing and CRM, areas which have become accepted – and debated – parts of marketing but are currently undergoing dramatic change. A major contribution to marketing thought internationally, this seminal title presents a powerful in-depth analysis of relational approaches to marketing where the three words relationships, networks and interaction are king. The book effects a dramatic shift in the fundamentals of marketing thought, with the author’s refined model of thirty relationships, the 30Rs, presenting a sophisticated and cogent challenge to the traditional 4Ps schema. Previous editions were widely praised as breakthrough texts in the field, combining incisive and searching analysis with an accessible and pragmatic approach to putting the theory to work. This third edition is the first book on relationship marketing and CRM to integrate the ongoing evolution in marketing through the service-dominant logic, lean consumption and the customer’s value chain, the augmented role of the customer in value creation, the increasing importance of customer-to-customer (C2C) interaction, network-based many-to-many marketing, and marketing accountability and metrics. It addresses both the high tech, information technology aspects of marketing and the high touch, human aspects. Further, customer-centricity is suggested to be broadened to balanced centricity, a trade-off between the needs of all stakeholders of a network of relationships. Examples, cases, concepts and references have been updated. Highly informative, practical in style and packed with illustrations from real companies, Total Relationship Marketing is an essential resource for all serious marketing practitioners as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students.