CRM.ppt

Small Business
Management, 18e
Longenecker/Petty/Palich/Hoy
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Building Customer
Relationships
Chapter 14
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Learning Goals:
 Define customer relationship
management (CRM), and explain its
importance to a small business.
 Discuss the significance of providing
extraordinary customer service.
 Understand how technology can be used
to improve customer relationships and
the techniques used to create a
customer database.

Learning Goals (cont.):
 Explain how consumers are decision
makers and why this is important in
understanding customer relationships.
 Identify certain psychological influences
on consumer behavior.
 Recognize certain sociological influences
on consumer behavior.

What is Customer Relationship
Management?
 Customer Relationship Management
(CRM)
A company-wide business strategy
designed to optimize profitability and
customer satisfaction by focusing on
highly defined and precise customer
groups.
14–5
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What is Customer Relationship
Management? (cont.)
 Focus of CRM:
Customers rather than products
Changes in processes, systems, and
culture
All channels and media involved in the
marketing effort, from the Internet to field
sales.
14–6

Benefits of CRM to the Small
Firm
 Economic benefits of maintaining
relationships with current customers:
◦ Acquisition costs for new customers are
high.
◦ Long-time customers spend more money
than new ones.
◦ Happy customers refer their friends and
colleagues.
14–7

Benefits of CRM to the Small
Firm (cont.)
 Economic benefits of maintaining
relationships with current customers
(cont.):
Order-processing costs are lower for
established customers.
Current customers are willing to pay more
for products.
14–8

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Sources of the Next Sale
14.1

Essential Materials of a Successful CRM Program
14.2

Outstanding Customer Relationships
through Extraordinary Service
Transactional Relationship
 An association between a business and
a customer that relates to a purchase or
a business deal
 Beliefs about Exceptional Customer
Service
 Small firms possess greater potential for
providing superior customer service than
do large firms.
14–11

Outstanding Customer Relationships
through Extraordinary Service (cont.)
Beliefs about Exceptional Customer
Service (cont.)
 Superior service creates customer
satisfaction.
 Customer satisfaction results in a
positive transactional relationship.
 Positive relationships lead to increased
firm profits.
14–12

Managing Customer
Satisfaction
 Key Elements of Customer
Satisfaction:
Providing the most basic benefits of the
product or service.
Offering general support services, such
as customer assistance.
Setting up a system to counteract
customers’ bad experiences.
Delivering extraordinary services that
excel in meeting customers’ preferences
and make the product and/or service
14–13

Extraordinary Service: Personal
Attention
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14–14
Do business
on first-name
basis
Address
problems
promptly
Keep in
touch
Ways to Provide
Extraordinary Service
Find ways to
help
Provide
custom
service

Managing Customer
Satisfaction
 Customer Experience Management
(CEM)
An approach that recognizes that with
every interaction, customers learn
something about
a firm that will affect their desire to do
business there in the future.
Having a positive experience
with a business becomes part
of the firm’s value equation.
14–15

Evaluating a Firm’s
Customer Service Health
 Customer Service Strategies
Provide an exceptional experience
throughout every transaction
Provide sales materials that are clear and
easy to understand
Respond promptly to customers’ requests
and concerns
14–16

Evaluating a Firm’s
Customer Service Health
(cont.)
 Customer Service Strategies (cont.)
Listen to customers and respond accordingly
Stand behind products/services
Treat customers as family members and best
friends
Stay in the hearts and minds of customers
14–17

Customer Service Strategies
14.3

Consumer Options for Dealing with Product
or Service Dissatisfaction
14.4

Using Technology to Support
Customer Relationship
Management
Blog, Wikis,
Social Networking
Customer Information
Management Systems
Online
Communities
Hosted Call
Centers
CRM Software
Web 2.0

Highly Recommended CRM Software Packages
for Small Businesses
14.5

Creating a CRM Database
Personal information
Complaints
Internet information
Categories for Building a Customer Database
Transaction data
Demographics
Lifestyle and
psychographic data
Profile of past
responses

Using a CRM Database
1. Capture relevant customer
data on interactions across
important touch points
Creating An
Effective CRM
Program
2. Analyze those data to better
understand customers
3. Use those insights to
improve relationships
with customers

Using a CRM Database
(cont’d)
 Customer Segmentation Strategy
A process of identifying customers that fit into smaller, more
homogeneous groups.
 80/20 Principle
A principle that maintains that 80 percent of a firm’s sales will come
from 20 percent of its customers.
 Recency-Frequency Monetary Analysis
An analysis that reveals customers most likely to buy from a firm in
the future because they have made purchases recently, frequently,
and in amounts exceeding an established minimum.
 Customer Lifetime Value (CLV)
The total profit expected from all future sales to a long-term
customer.
1–24

Stage 1: Need Recognition
 Need Recognition
Occurs when a consumer realizes that
her or his current state of affairs differs
significantly from some ideal state.
A consumer must recognize a need
before purchase behavior can begin.
Many factors can influence recognition of
a need.
Marketing strategy can be used to
influence need recognition.
14–25

Stage 2: Information Search
and Evaluation
 Evaluative Criteria
The features or characteristics of a product
or service that customers use to compare
brands
 Evoked Set
A group of brands that a consumer is both
aware of and willing to consider as a solution
to a purchase need.
Gaining inclusion into an evoked set
requires creating market awareness of a
product or service.
14–26

Stage 3: Purchase Decision
 Factors Affecting the Purchase Decision:
Brands in the evoked set
Brand advertising
Purchase setting: store or non-store outlet
Store, catalogs, TV shopping channels, the Internet
Intention to purchase:
planned or spontaneous
Store layout, sales personnel,
and point-of-purchase displays.
Ease of use of Web site
14–27

Stage 4: Post-Purchase
Evaluation
 Post-Purchase Dissonance
Is the anxiety that occurs when a
customer has second thoughts
immediately following a purchase.
Can lead to customer complaints, brand
switching, or discontinuing use of the
product.
14–28

Stage 4: Post-Purchase
Evaluation
 Post-Purchase Dissonance (cont.)
Can reduced by:
Reassurance by salespersons.
Guarantees and trial periods.
Customer follow-ups.
Confirming information from other users.
14–29

Simplified Model of Consumer Behavior
(Customers as Decision Makers)
14.6

Understanding Psychological
Influences
on Customers
 Needs
Are the starting point for all behavior
Need categories: physiological, social,
psychological, and spiritual.
Are seldom completely or permanently
satisfied (e.g., daily newspaper).
Function together (e.g., the desire for
status clothing).
Consumers may purchase the same product to
satisfy different needs (e.g., Internet access).
14–31

Influences
on Customers (cont’d)
 Perceptions
Are individual processes that give meaning
to the stimuli confronting consumers
Whatever is perceived depends on the
characteristics of the stimulus and the perceiver.
 Perceptual Categorization
Is the process of grouping similar things so
as to manage huge quantities of incoming
stimuli.
Can create a barrier (i.e., brand loyalty) to
competing brands.
14–32

Influences
 Motivations
Are goal-directed forces that organize and
give direction to the tension caused by
unsatisfied needs.
Behavior variables can be analyzed to
determine the motivations a consumer will
internalize as an impetus to purchase a
good or service.
14–33

Influences
 Attitude
Is an enduring opinion based on knowledge,
feeling, and behavioral tendency.
Can discourage or foster behavioral tendencies
to purchase a product.
14–34

Understanding Sociological
Influences
on Customers
Consumers
Culture Social Classes
Reference Groups
Opinion Leaders

Key Terms
80/20 principle
attitude
culture
customer database
customer experience
management (CEM)
customer lifetime value (CLV)
customer relationship
management (CRM)
customer segmentation
strategy
evaluative criteria
evoked set
motivations
needs
opinion leader
perception
perceptual categorization
post-purchase dissonance
recency-frequency-
monetary analysis
reference groups
social classes
touch point
transactional relationship
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