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Customer Satisfaction and Customer Relationships

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Marketing Framework

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Discussion Questions #1

Does customer satisfaction matter? Why or why not?

How do you determine whether you are satisfied?

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Customer Evaluations (slide 1 of 3)

Customer evaluations include

Customer satisfaction

Perceptions of quality

Customers’ intentions to repurchase

Customers’ likelihood of word-of-mouth, etc.

Marketers track these evaluations because they impact the bottom line

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Customer Evaluations (slide 2 of 3)

Customer Evaluations = Experience − Expectations

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Evaluation Outcomes

If customers’ experiences

Surpass their expectations delighted

Meet their expectations satisfied

Fall short of their expectations dissatisfied

Low-involvement purchases

Evaluation is instantaneous

Expectations are usually latent

Higher-involvement purchases

Evaluation is deliberative and conscious

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Customer Evaluations (slide 3 of 3)

Search goods

Evaluate obvious qualities; straightforward

Experiential purchases

Evaluate after trial/consumption

Expectations might not be fully formed; the experience shapes evaluation & expectations

Credence purchases

Don’t have expertise to evaluate

Evaluate what one can (price, looks, etc.)

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Sources of Expectations

Personal experience

Consumers trust their own experience

Experience can be direct or indirect

Friends and experts

Trust those with no commercial gain

Marketing mix elements

Ads, price, retail atmosphere, etc.

Third-party communications

e.g., Consumer Reports, books, and Internet

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Expectation and Experience

The core (hygiene factors) and peripheral components (motivating factors) of a product both contribute to satisfaction

If the core is good, it doesn’t enhance satisfaction much because it is expected to be good

If the core is bad, it can affect dissatisfaction

Peripheral services can affect both

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Expectation & Experience: Flowcharts

Marketers create flowcharts that map all of the interactions between the customer and company

From the eyes of the customer

Flowcharts are used to

Generate quality measures at each stage

Identify points of repeated problems

Suggest system redesigns to improve efficiency

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Types of Expectations

Ideal levels of quality

Predicted levels of quality

Adequate levels of quality

Zone of tolerance exists between the adequate and predicted levels of quality

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Customer Value

Value

The trade-off of the quality of the purchase received compared to the price paid and other costs incurred

Marketers try to increase perceptions of value

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Expectations

Expectations are dynamic

What pleased a customer last time may no longer suffice

Expectations vary cross-culturally

In individualist cultures, satisfaction is heavily influenced by quality of reliability and service provider responsiveness

In collectivistic cultures, satisfaction is heavily influenced by the relational aspects of frontline employees

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Measurement

Measuring quality with precision is difficult

Customer perceptions can be measured with surveys

Compare results to previous or competitive benchmarks

Surveys that measure multiple facets of customers’ thoughts are more actionable

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Customer Dissatisfaction

The primary means to regain a dissatisfied customer is through empowered frontline employees

Immediately redress the problem

Empathize with customer

Offer a perk for customer’s troubles

 

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Customer Relationship Marketing (slide 1 of 2)

Customer satisfaction is first step in long-term relationship

Loyalty programs

Price discounts may keep customers from defecting while inducing additional purchasing

Some companies may assume loyal customers are price insensitive and charge them more

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Customer Relationship Marketing (slide 2 of 2)

CRM programs track customer information including RFM information

Recency, frequency, and monetary values of customers’ purchase history

These factors are used to “score” customers to identify the most desirable customers

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Discussion Question #2

Describe the most desirable customers according to the figure.

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Customer Database Information

Contact information

Demographics

Lifestyle and psychographic data

Internet info

Transaction data (RFM, etc.)

Rate of response to marketing offers

Complaints

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CRM

CRM programs

Take planning and money

Require ongoing customer monitoring

Companies struggle to design an information system with desired qualities

Integrate inputs from all relevant customer touch points

Access information in useful formats for managerial usage

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Customer Lifetime Value (slide 1 of 2)

Companies utilize customer lifetime value (CLV) to assess customers in terms of their worth to the company

Some customers are costly to acquire, others more costly to retain

 

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Customer Lifetime Value (slide 2 of 2)

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Customer Lifetime Value Example

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Managerial Recap (slide 1 of 2)

Quality and customer satisfaction can be precisely measured for goods, but not as easily for services

Surveys can be used to ask customers for their evaluations of any purchase

Marketers care about loyalty and customer relationship management

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Managerial Recap (slide 2 of 2)

Customer lifetime value is a means of translating marketing efforts into financial results

CLV allows firms to match customer benefits to revenues to ensure that each customer relationship remains profitable

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