INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY Customer satisfaction is defined as the measurement of how a company’s products or services meet or surpass its customer’s expectations. It is also a measure of how the customer perceives the way the company’s representatives dealt with his or her needs. Customer satisfaction plays an important role in determining the likelihood of an organization’s success and profitability over the long term. It is an important way of business to develop customer loyalty that in turn builds
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INTRODUCTION: DEFINITION OF CUSTOMER The father of our nation‚ Mahatma Gandhi’s famous statement is worth recollection- “A customer is the most important visitor on our premises .He is to dependant on us ‚we are dependant on him .He is not dependant on us‚ we are dependant on him. He is not an outsider on our business. He is a part of it .We are not doing a favor by serving him‚ he is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.” According to Peter Drucker. “The
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A Case Study in Creative Approaches to Customer Satisfaction Surveys Background The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (the Commission or WSSC) is a bi-county agency in Maryland established to provide water supply and wastewater treatment services for approximately 1.7 million people in Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties. WSSC has a service area of almost 1‚000 square miles‚ and serves about 430‚000 accounts. Ascellon’s work on this project was guided by three critical objectives that
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INTRODUCTION Customers are becoming ever more demanding‚ and in most markets they have more options to choose from than ever before. . A customer is a person who becomes accustomed to buying from you. Without a strong track record of contact and repeat purchase‚ this person is NOT your customer; he is a buyer. A true customer is grown over time. The satisfaction a customer gets from the consumption of an organization’s product or service pre-empts his or her subsequent decisions on the same products
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Review and Critique on Customer Satisfaction LIU Huiqun1‚ ZHAO Xin2 1. School of Economics‚ Tianjin University of Commerce‚ Tianjin‚ China‚ 300134 2. Department of Economics and Management‚ Dezhou Vocational and Technological College‚ Dezhou‚ China‚ 253000 huiqunliu@tjcu.edu.cn Abstract: The concept of customer satisfaction has attracted much attention in recent years. Organizations that try to analyze this concept should begin with an understanding of various customer satisfaction models. In this paper
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The Relationship between Customer Loyalty and Satisfaction Introduction In the past decades‚ there was a controversial issue about the relationship between customer loyalty and satisfaction. Actually‚ it is still a heated debate nowadays. Some people said that customer satisfaction bring customer loyalty‚ while some people believed that customer loyalty affect customer satisfaction. Interestingly‚ very few executives and managers understand the critical difference. The purpose of this paper is
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COMPARATIVE OF CONSUMER SATISFACTION BETWEEN AIRTEL 1 AND VODAFONE CONSUMER A consumer is an individual who purchase or has the capacity to purchase goods and services offered for sale by marketing institutions in order to satisfy personal or household needs‚ wants or desires. According to a statement made by Mahatma Gandhi‚ ‘consumer refers to the following‚ “A consumer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an outsider
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relax for the same time. Measuring and managing customer satisfaction is important for the survival‚ development and success of the tourism business (Sirakay‚ 2003). Customer’s satisfaction is the main concern for every resort and hotel in order to keep the customers loyal to the resort and make them permanent visitors. It is believed that higher level of customer satisfaction may result in higher levels of repurchase. When measuring customer satisfaction‚ the basic premise is that consumers reflect
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Customer satisfaction survey: Outback Steakhouse Customer Satisfaction Survey Customer satisfaction survey: Outback Steakhouse Overview Outback Steakhouse is a multinational restaurant chain operating throughout the United States and in 18 other countries including Australia‚ Malaysia‚ Singapore and many more countries worldwide‚ (Outback Steakhouse‚ 2013). In most basic terms‚ Outback Steakhouse could be described as an Australian themed steakhouse
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As the Chief Executive Officer of Sierra Lighthouse Hotel Freetown‚ I’ve been provided with an Organisational Performance and Customer Satisfaction equation: Consumer Expected Quality - Organisational Actual Quality = Customer Perceived Quality EQ > AQ => Dissatisfaction EQ = AQ => Mere Satisfaction AQ > EQ => Delighted Customer An Organization Performance includes multiple activities‚ that help in establishing the goals of the organization‚ and monitor the progress towards the target
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