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MKT350, Chapter 6
MKT350, Chapter 6
Chapter 6
BUILDING
CUSTOMER
RELATIONSHIPS
Partners
Enhancing
Retaining Friends
Satisfying Acquaintances
Getting Strangers
• Assumptions
• Income
– Expected Customer Lifetime
– Average Revenue (month/year)
– Other Customers convinced via WOM
– Employee Loyalty??
• Expenses
– Costs of Serving Customer Increase??
Most Profitable
What segment spends more with
Customers
Best
us over time, costs less to maintain,
Customers spreads positive word of mouth?
Other
Customers What segment costs us in
time, effort and money yet
does not provide the return
Least Profitable we want? What segment is
Customers difficult to do business with?
Most Profitable
What segment spends more with
Customers Platinum us over time, costs less to maintain,
spreads positive word of mouth?
Gold
Iron
– Financial Bonds
– Social & Interpersonal Bonds
– Customization Bonds
– Structural Bonds
– wrong segment
– not profitable in the long term
– difficult customers