Download or read book Mobile Support in Customer Loyalty Management written by Christian Zeidler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-09-02 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Zeidler identifies the potential of mobile services for the management of customer relationships. He develops a framework that provides a technical infrastructure capable of leveraging these advantages through a service delivery platform. The author, thereby, provides a valuable tool for the integration of the mobile channel into the traditional marketing mix.

Download or read book Increasing Customer Loyalty via Mobile Customer Relationship Management written by Silke Freitag and published by diplom.de. This book was released on 2002-08-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: The main objective of this research was to find out and demonstrate how companies can manage to maintain and increase their customer s loyalty with the help of Customer Relationship Management in today s wireless world. Due to the growing convergence of the Internet and the mobile phone, competition between companies is considerably increasing. In order to further keep their stake in the market, companies are forced to improve the relations to their customers by using new business technologies enabling them to differentiate themselves from the competition in offering personalized services especially tailored to their customers needs. This thesis will concentrate on the opportunities that Customer Relationship Management offers in the wireless world. Mobile applications and instruments that enable companies to create more loyalty among their customers will be pointed out while special focus is laid on SMS-Marketing. A few examples of companies who have been successfully applying wireless marketing will be given. Furthermore, part of this thesis was to carry out an online survey during which a number of people were interviewed about their experience with mobile services and their willingness to accept wireless marketing. The survey results provided a basis upon which the acceptance of possible marketing strategies, designed to increase customer loyalty, could be judged. Inhaltsverzeichnis:Table of Contents: AbbreviationsIII FiguresIV 1.Introduction1 1.1Problem statement2 1.2Limitation of research topic3 1.3Research procedure4 2.M-Business: Anywhere Anytime Access 5 2.1Definition of M-Business5 2.2Mobile network technology6 2.2.1GSM6 2.2.2GPRS7 2.2.3HSCSD8 2.2.4UMTS8 2.3Service technology9 2.3.1WAP9 2.3.2Bluetooth10 2.3.3Short Messaging Service (SMS)11 2.4iMode as an alternative to WAP11 2.5Mobile payment solutions14 2.5.1Paybox14 2.5.2Mobilpay16 2.5.3Payitmobile solution17 3.Mobile Customer Relationship Management - Key Functions and Definitions18 3.1Definition of Customer Relationship Management18 3.2CRM - A customer-oriented organizational process19 3.3Benefit of CRM22 3.3.1Improvement of image23 3.3.2Improvement of efficiency24 3.3.3Acquisition of new customers24 3.3.4Customer bonding25 3.4Customer Lifetime Value - A means to measure the success of CRM26 3.5CRM in the wireless world29 3.6Fields of application31 3.7Objectives of Mobile Customer Relationship Management32 4.M-CRM as a [...]

Download or read book The Effortless Experience written by Matthew Dixon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows that the best way to create customer loyalty is with service so good, so over the top, that it surprises and delights. But what if everyone is wrong? In their acclaimed bestseller The Challenger Sale, Matthew Dixon and his colleagues at CEB busted many longstanding myths about sales. Now they’ve turned their research and analysis to a new vital business subject—customer loyalty—with a new book that turns the conventional wisdom on its head. The idea that companies must delight customers by exceeding service expectations is so entrenched that managers rarely even question it. They devote untold time, energy, and resources to trying to dazzle people and inspire their undying loyalty. Yet CEB’s careful research over five years and tens of thousands of respondents proves that the “dazzle factor” is wildly overrated—it simply doesn’t predict repeat sales, share of wallet, or positive wordof-mouth. The reality: Loyalty is driven by how well a company delivers on its basic promises and solves day-to-day problems, not on how spectacular its service experience might be. Most customers don’t want to be “wowed”; they want an effortless experience. And they are far more likely to punish you for bad service than to reward you for good service. If you put on your customer hat rather than your manager or marketer hat, this makes a lot of sense. What do you really want from your cable company, a free month of HBO when it screws up or a fast, painless restoration of your connection? What about your bank—do you want free cookies and a cheerful smile, even a personal relationship with your teller? Or just a quick in-and-out transaction and an easy way to get a refund when it accidentally overcharges on fees? The Effortless Experience takes readers on a fascinating journey deep inside the customer experience to reveal what really makes customers loyal—and disloyal. The authors lay out the four key pillars of a low-effort customer experience, along the way delivering robust data, shocking insights and profiles of companies that are already using the principles revealed by CEB’s research, with great results. And they include many tools and templates you can start applying right away to improve service, reduce costs, decrease customer churn, and ultimately generate the elusive loyalty that the “dazzle factor” fails to deliver. The rewards are there for the taking, and the pathway to achieving them is now clearly marked.

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Mobile Marketing Management written by Pousttchi, Key and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides a compelling collection of innovative mobile marketing thoughts and practices"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Customer Relationship Management Strategies in the Digital Era written by Nas?r, Süphan and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s global economy, social media and technological advances have changed the way businesses interact with their clientele. With new forms of communication and IT practices, companies seek innovative practices for maintaining their consumer loyalty. Customer Relationship Management Strategies in the Digital Era blends the literature from the fields of marketing and information technology in an effort to examine the effect that technological advances have on the interaction between companies and their customers Through chapters and case studies, this publication discusses the importance of achieving competitive advantage through implementing relationship marketing practices and becoming consumer-centric. This publication is an essential reference source for researchers, professionals, managers, and upper level students interested in understanding customer loyalty in a technology-focused society.

Download or read book Contribution of Business Combinations written by Mrs. Gloria Mpayana Atete, Anne Lyse Mukabideri, John Kiarie, Adolphus J. Toby and published by AJPO Journals USA LLC. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TOPICS IN THE BOOK Investment Risk Management and Financial Performance of Rwanda Social Security Board (RSSB) The Contribution of the Horizontal Business Combination on the Financial Performance of I&M Bank Influence of Point-Based Program on Financial Performance of Selected Firms in the Service Industry in Kenya Effect of Non-Monetary Programs on Financial Performance of Selected Firms in the Service Industry in Kenya Volatility Modelling of Stock Returns in the Petroleum Marketing Sector of the Nigerian Stock Exchange

Download or read book Creating Customer Loyalty written by Chris Daffy and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2019-04-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consumer-facing and business-to-business organizations know that if they get their approach to customers right, they will be rewarded with unprecedented customer loyalty. This will lead to increased market share, improved sales, an enhanced reputation and higher profitability. Despite this, many of today's companies fail to recognize that the notable improvements in their service delivery are not keeping up with increased customer expectations. Creating Customer Loyalty outlines simple, easy to understand strategies for creating a sustainable customer loyalty management programme that will win loyal customers. Demonstrating how to focus solely on the things that enable and enhance success, this book shows how to make loyalty a habit and structure a business that attracts and retains the best customers. Using examples from both UK and international companies such as Lexus, Aldi, Dyson, The Ritz-Carlton and Virgin Atlantic, Creating Customer Loyalty explains why customer experience management alone does not build lasting loyalty, and why customer expectation and customer memory management are essential. It outlines how to make every occasion epic by removing those 'ouch' moments, replacing them with 'wow' experiences, and developing dazzling recovery techniques to create unforgettable stories and positive memories.

Download or read book Mobile Telecommunication Customer Loyalty in Nigeria Determining factors written by Olayiwola Wasiu Bello and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-04-28 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Communications - Miscellaneous, , course: Master of Business Administration, language: English, abstract: ABSTRACT This Master’s thesis sought to assess and analyze the variables capable of influencing loyalty of mobile phone subscribers as well as how service providers can enhance loyalty of their customers in Nigeria. The study was basically a survey that used the quantitative approach. A structured questionnaire was developed and personally administered to a sample of University of Ilorin students across four major GSM operators in the country. Four hundred (400) respondents were sampled through a stratified random sampling. Out of this, three hundred and forty-eight (348) copies of the questionnaire constituting 87% response rate were got for analysis. Of the eleven (11) operational factors that were used to assess loyalty of customers in the Nigeria Mobile Telecoms industry, all variables except Brand Image and Service Centre Quality were found to be capable of influencing customer loyalty and also considered as the most important loyalty variables in the industry. The unavailability of Mobile Number Portability was found to be a prominent factor in tying consumers down to service providers while the generally low satisfaction with the present state of service delivery in the industry also plays a role in this direction. Therefore, the retention been enjoyed by the service providers can be described as circumstantial. Part of the recommendations given include the service providers embarking upon drives that will reduce to its barest minimum drop calls, improve call quality and SMS delivery which is likely to make subscribers perceive given quality as high among others

Download or read book Boost Customer Loyalty with Online Support written by Allard C. R. van Riel and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Strategic Retail Management and Brand Management written by Doris Berger-Grabner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book a comprehensive coverage of major retailing topics and contemporary issues in retailing and branding is given, including many cases and practical examples. Besides introducing the topic strategic planning in retailing and fundamentals in the fields of the marketing mix in retailing, this book builds on e-tailing and digitalization. Moreover, trends and developments in consumer behavior and consumers’ purchase decisions, especially in the fast moving consumer goods market, are explained. Furthermore, this book builds on the major topic strategic brand management and branding decisions in general and in particular within the retail landscape.

Download or read book Mobile services in retail and their influence on customer satisfaction written by Joern Toellner and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: 2,3, University of Applied Sciences Essen, course: Master of Business Administration, language: English, abstract: Worldwide there is a strong growth in smartphone owners in comparison to previous years and the number of them will surpass the 1,4 billion mark worldwide by the end of 2013 (statista, 2013). Today, more than one third of world’s population and more than 40 percent of Germany’s population own a smartphone (GS1, 2013, 5, statista, 2013). Mobile phones and other mobiles are becoming part of our everyday life and are changing the way people manage it. They are the most used daily consumer good in the world and by this are becoming personal assistants that give users an always-connected and always-on lifestyle – a mobile lifestyle. Users are able to do everything from everywhere at any time with it: from doing business, communicating or playing interactive games to shopping. The increasing number of mobile devices and by this the anywhere accessibility of the Internet have an impact on the consumers’ behavior in stationary stores. Customers do price checks with their smartphone, watching product videos or reading product reviews in the store and more often buy the desired product elsewhere. Retailers face the challenge of understanding how customers interact with their mobiles while shopping and take advantage of any opportunities to increase customer conversion and gain loyal customers (comscore, 2012). Customers expect mobile offerings. Today some retailers already respond on these demand and development, and try with new possibilities of mobile marketing to bring customers back from digital world into their stores (KPMG, 2012, 38), but they have to add value to all their offering and products and even to new technological possibilities like mobile services, which do not automatically generate advantages over competition (Rudolph/Emrich, 2008, 266). Mobile services in retail are services, that can be used independently of temporal and spatial restraints, and that are accessed through a mobile device in retail environment like i.e. mobile couponing receiving or paying with mobile phone. When launching such a service the retailer has to be sure whether a mobile service has the power to influence customer satisfaction inside the store. Customer satisfaction is the important connection between activities of the retailer and the resulting behaviour like repeat purchasing, cross selling, recommendation or complaint and by this relevant for economical success of a company (Homburg, 2008, 19).

Download or read book Extra Mile written by Tycho Press and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comprehensive Guide to Customer Service For The 21st Century Even the most successful companies need their customers happy and to keep coming back for more. Whether you re just starting your business and want to lock up great customer service procedures, or you re an established company looking to revamp your customer service to answer new market needs, Extra Mile is the resource for you. Unlike other books that are brimming with irrelevant and outdated information, Extra Mile offers: 500 essential tips, including: Real-Life Scenarios, Crisis Management, and Building Customer Loyalty Intel into the customer service secrets of business giants, such as American Express, Southwest Airlines, and Ritz-Carlton Hotels A section dedicated to providing excellent customer service online A list of 50 Things Never to Do, to help avoid conflict and negative reviews Get ahead of the pack by learning how great customer service equals customer retention. "

Download or read book Customer Loyalty and Supply Chain Management written by Ivan Russo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many business-to-business (B2B) managers think that customers act rationally and base decisions mostly on price, customer loyalty isn’t considered. Companies outsource various activities, which enable them to improve efficiency, reduce costs, focus more on core competencies and improve their innovation capabilities. Supply Chain Management synchronizes the efforts of all parties—particularly suppliers, manufacturers, retailers, dealers, customers—involved in achieving customer’s needs. Despite much research, the relationship between customer loyalty and the supply chain strategy remains insufficiently explored and understood by practitioners and academics, while the theme has been extensively developed within marketing literature. Customer Loyalty and Supply Chain Management is the result of years of work by the authors on different projects concerning the overlapping areas of supply chains, logistics and marketing, drawing a connection between the literature to provide a holistic picture of the customer loyalty framework. Emphasis is given to the B2B context, where recent research has provided some clues to support the fact that investment in operations, new technologies and organizational strategy have had a significant role in understanding B2B loyalty, particularly in the context of global supply chains. Moreover, the book provides a modernized and predictive model of B2B loyalty, showing a different methodological approach that aims at capturing the complexity of the phenomenon. This book will be a useful resource for professionals and scholars from across the supply chain who are interested in exploring the dimension of customer loyalty in the challenging supplier and customer context.

Download or read book Business Information Systems Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 2476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business Information Systems: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications offers a complete view of current business information systems within organizations and the advancements that technology has provided to the business community. This four-volume reference uncovers how technological advancements have revolutionized financial transactions, management infrastructure, and knowledge workers.

Download or read book Potential of Mobile Applications in CRM written by Tobias Herscher and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: 2,3, International Business School Nürnberg, course: International Business & Management - Potential of Mobile Applications in CRM, language: English, abstract: A practice-oriented approach to the implementation of mobile devices and mobile CRM strategies into the current service-infrastructure of companies dealing with high complexity in CRM. Mobile is everywhere and it ́s constantly growing. News are preferably read on the phone, shopping is done via iPad and the travel business has become a highly dynamic patchwork of mobile and online services. The customer has a choice - make it easy to be chosen! "[...] Data is ubiquitous and cheap, analytical ability is scarce... The sexiest job in the next ten years will be statistician.” (Quote: Google ́s Chief Economist, Hal Varian) "[...] it is essential for companies to act, not to react, predicting, not observing market developments, in order to ensure future success." "A company needs to manage customer relations instead of products."

Download or read book Social CRM For Dummies written by Kyle Lacy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover great ways to engage your customers through the social web Social CRM is an evolving tool to help you engage your customers, interact with them, and develop deeper relationships. This handy guide teaches you how to make the most of it, whether your business is a small shop or a large corporation. In a friendly, easy-to-understand style, it explains how you can create new marketing communications and develop smart, applicable content that produces results from your online community. You'll learn to use data to drive results, create social Key Performance Indicators for different business units, and a great deal more. Today's consumer uses technology to select relationships with companies; this book teaches business owners how to use social CRM to create relationships that customers want to maintain Explains how to integrate social media into your CRM mix Shows how to use data and information gathered through social sites Helps you develop social KPIs and create content that gets results from your online community Social CRM For Dummies helps businesses large and small use social media to develop and maintain productive customer relationships.

Download or read book CUSTOMER LOYALTY IN HONG KONGS written by Ching-Gee Wan and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Customer Loyalty in Hong Kong's Cellular Market: an Integrated Framework and Empirical Study" by Ching-gee, Wan, 溫靜之, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Abstract of thesis entitled Customer Loyalty in Hong Kong's Cellular Market: An Integrated Framework and Empirical Study Submitted by Wan Ching Gee for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong in April 2003 In the highly competitive mobile communications market of Hong Kong, customer loyalty has become the top priority for companies that wish to maintain market share and profitability. This paper aims to identify the potential determinants of customer loyalty in the mobile telecommunications industry. Based on the research literature on customer satisfaction, switching costs and service loyalty, an integrated framework which encompasses the constructs of overall satisfaction, relative satisfaction, price, switching costs as well as demographics and usage variables is developed. With the use of survey research method, an empirical study has been carried out in the mobile communications market of Hong Kong to examine the usefulness and the predictive ability of the framework. The research results support the framework posited in this paper and contribute to the understanding of customer loyalty in several ways. First of all, this study not only confirms previous research findings on positive satisfaction-loyalty linkage, but also complements previous research by providing a more comprehensive view on the relationship between satisfaction and switching intention. This research has found that the satisfaction-retention relationship is positive but asymmetrical, and the intensity of customer satisfaction has an impact on the satisfaction-retention linkage. Second, the statistical significance of the new construct of relative satisfaction is confirmed by the empirical results of the study, and its inclusion is hence justified. It is found that satisfaction towards a current operator relative to previous operator(s) that have been used significantly impacts on loyalty towards the current operator. Customers who are less satisfied with the present operator are less loyal than those who are equally satisfied or more satisfied with the current operator. Furthermore, empirical results from this study reveal that customers were more loyal if they considered the price they were paying for the mobile services was equitable. Sensitivity to price differential, defined as the percentage of price difference offered by another operator that will induce the customer to switch is also positively, though less strongly, correlated with switching intention. Regarding the impact of switching costs on the intention to switch, the presence of high switching costs deter customers from switching and its impact is more pronounced among dissatisfied customers. Last but not least, age and usage characteristics including the monthly minutes of use, the number of years using mobile phones and staying with the current network operator have significant impact on switching intention. The research findings not only enrich our understanding of customer loyalty in the cellular market, but also generate useful managerial implications for the practitioners in the industry on churn management and retention strategies. An evaluation of the existing loyalty programs is made, it suggests that network operators should make use of innovative value-added services, handset trade-in programs and group calling plans to enhance c