These one-off costs — for example, product sampling, advertising, credit checking, prospecting — can be amortised over the relationship lifetime of a preferred customer. The longer the customer remains with a business, the greater the opportunity for cross-selling, the higher the propensity for incremental sales from word-of-mouth and the lower the relationship maintenance costs as company and customer get to know each other better.
Not all institutions are committed to long-term investments in companies. Certainly, institutions which sell index tracking investment products linked , for example, to the FTSE or FTSE , are stable investors in those companies which fall within the indices. Similarly, sectoral investment products tend to be linked with relatively stable portfolios.
However the trend, particularly in general growth or income portfolios, is away from long-term towards short-term investments. One step beyond targeting low-churn institutions is targeting an institution or individual who will acquire a controlling interest in the company. Investors who focus only on the long-term returns — such as the legendary Warren Buffet of Berkshire Hathaway — free companies from the counterproductive pressures of short-term returns.
Going private is the final option. There can be considerable risks attached to this option. Share buy-backs, whether leveraged or not, can involve companies in taking on considerable debt. By , Virgin management had bought back the shares and the company returned to private hands. Branson had been concerned about institutional pressures for short-term profit which were inconsistent with his long-term investment plans. He anticipated losses in the early years of Virgin Atlantic, his airline, and felt that the institutions lacked the patience to await returns on their investment.
Managers have always intuitively understood that excellent service can only be delivered by employees who are satisfied at work. It seems self- evident that unhappy, discontented employees must communicate their disaffection in encounters with customers.
A positive climate for service is less bureaucratic or rule driven , more customer orientated, more supportive of personal initiatives which improve service.
He concluded that employee satisfaction, driven by astute human resource management, feeds positively into customer perceptions of quality. In other words, employee satisfaction drives customer satisfaction and, in a competitive market place where customers can switch suppliers, customer satisfaction is the sine qua non of customer retention. Another review of the practices in service organisations regarded as excellent found a number of commonalities: they recognised that employee relations mirrored customer relations and that if they were to be superior in service they knew they had to be superior in their relationships with employees.
They created an awareness of the importance of service in the minds of employees. They developed and implemented support systems to teach employees the behaviours which were regarded by customers as exemplifying excellent service. They set performance standards which were precise and measurable, and trained managers, supervisors and employees to perform to those standards. Management behaviours are mirrored in employee behaviour. You do as you are told. IM is the philosophy of treating employees as if they were customers.
It is the practice of creating jobs and working environments which promote job satisfaction and positive behaviours. Employees should be viewed as part-time marketers who can create value for customers in the moments of truth where customer, employee, process and system converge. Internal Marketing may involve a number of activities and processes at a strategic or tactical level: improving management style, improving recruitment practices, integrating all employees into the planning cycle, refocusing training on interactive and service skills, open communication lines and empowerment of front-line staff.
Partnering takes place for many reasons. A large number of partnerships allow access to technological expertise. Toshiba and Motorola, for example, share technologies and co-operate in new product development.
IBM claims involvement in over four thousand strategic partnerships. They share product development costs in partnership with Siemens. The partnership between Microsoft and Intel, the so-called Wintel alliance, is hugely powerful. Together they dominate the industry. Other partnerships deliver different forms of knowledge benefit to the participants.
According to a Wall Street Journal report this would be the greatest benefit to the parties in the alliance.
Partnerships can help strip out cost as well as deliver value-adds for customers. BP and Mobil, for example, formed a logistics partnership which was to yield significant savings in distribution costs, enabling them to compete more effectively on the forecourt. The main benefits for participants in partnerships are as follows: economy due to the sharing of costs; accelerated learning from shared technologies and customer information; expansion by combining two customer bases; risk reduction from sharing the costs and process of new product development; enhanced customer satisfaction by delivering additional value.
Conclusion Customer relationship management is focused on the creation and maintenance of long-term, mutually beneficial relationships with strategically important markets. It is based on the premise that customers with the highest life-time value potential are those in whom the company should invest their retention resources. Other customers might be fired. For others, it may be possible to re-engineer or nurture the relationship to create new sources of value.
Together, these five constituencies form the S. Another fundamental of customer relationship management is that the value proposition or offer should be customised to meet or exceed customer expectations.
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