Creating Long-Term Loyalty Relationships
Creating Long-Term Loyalty Relationships
Loyalty Relationships
Core positioning:
• Safety Volvo
Other benefits:
• Good performance
• Design
• Environmentally
friendly
Total Customer Satisfaction
“Satisfaction is a
person’s feelings of
pleasure or
disappointment that
result from comparing a
product’s perceived
performance (or
outcome) to
expectations.”
Customer Expectations
Previous purchases
Friends advice
Marketers’ / competitors
Expectations
Monitoring Satisfaction
• Level one: abandon the company and
even bad-mouth it.
• Level two to level four: satisfied but still
find it easy to switch when a better offer
comes along.
• Level five: repurchase and even spread
good word of mouth about the company.
Monitoring Satisfaction
Measurement
Techniques
Influence of
Customer
Satisfaction
Customer
Complaint
s
MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES
Periodic surveys can track customer
satisfaction directly and ask additional
questions to measure repurchase intention
and the respondent’s likelihood or willingness
to recommend the company and brand to
others.
INFLUENCE OF CUSTOMER
SATISFACTION
For customer-centered companies,
customer satisfaction is both a goal and a
marketing tool.
Performance
Quality
Conformance
Profitability
Maximizing Customer Lifetime Value
Customer Probability
‘’A profitable customer is a person,
household, or company that over time
yields a revenue stream exceeding by
an acceptable amount the company’s
cost stream for attracting, selling and
serving that customer. ‘’
Customer-Product Profitability Analysis
Customers
Products
Customer Empowerment
Give customer more power to choose product
Both company and customer use
information of each other
Customer Relationship Management
(CRM)
“Managing information of individual customer
and all customer “touch points ” to maximize
loyalty”
Personalizing Marketing
Making sure brand & its marketing are
relevant to customers
“No two customers are identical.”
Best relationship marketing = right technology
Personalization is more than just creating
customized information
Employees increase bonds by individualizing
and personalizing relationships
Customer vs Clients
Nameless Named
Part of mass Individual
Served by anyone Served by professionals
Adapt to customer’ increase of desire for
personalization
Permission Marketing (PM)
Marketing after gaining their expressed permission
Based on Marketers can’t use “interruption marketing”
Seth Codin
Presume consumers know what they want
Participation Marketing (RM)
More appropriate than PM
One-to-one marketing
Customer Empowerment
Advertisement & making customer help in
customizing products
“Customer in charge.”
Connect to brands
How much customer want to get involved in your company
Reducing Defection
Keep customers and increase business
Many companies suffer from high customer churn or defection
“It’s like adding water to a leaking bucket.”
E.g.: Cellular carriers and tv cable suffer from spinners
Reducing Defection continous...
Dissatisfaction in defection
• Unmet needs and
expectations
• Poor product/service quality
• High complexity
• Billing errors
Reducing Defection continous...
Reduce defection rate:
1. Define and measure retention rate
Magazine – renewal rate
CollE.g.e – class graduation rate
2. Know the causes of customer attrition/reduction
and focus on certain customers
Focus on increasing customer satisfaction by decreasing:
• Poor service
• Shoddy products
• High prices
Reducing Defection continous...
3. Compare the customer’s lifetime value to
the costs of reducing the defection rate
Defection rate cost:
• Campaign
• Service
• Sales
Lost profit
• Profit if company try to discourage defection
o Increase in customers as they are more loyal
• Dis-defection cost < lost profit
o retain customer OR continue dis-defection
Retention Dynamics
Marketing funnel
Shows how to attract and retain customers:
Identify percentage of potential targets
Identify percentage of potential targets
“Must move through each target to be very loyal”
Stages can be extended
E.g.: to group brand advocates and partners with the firm
Identify bottleneck stage/barrier that separate from
building a loyal customer franchise
If recent users > triers
“something wrong”
Customer retention
Acquiring can cost 5 times bigger satisfying and
retaining customers
Average company lose 10% of its customers
Decrease 5% customer defection = increase profits
by 25 to 85%
Increase life of retained customer = increase profit
rate
Managing The Customer Base
Reducing rate of customer defection
E.g.: Increase employee skills
Increase longevity of the customer relationship
Customer stick around
E.g.: more engaged