MANAGING CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS 3 CHAPTER 1 MANAGING CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS RUTH N. BOLTON AND CRINA O. TARASI Abstract The customer relationship management (CRM) literature recognizes the long-run value of potential and current customers. Increased revenues‚ profits‚ and shareholder value are the result of marketing activities directed toward developing‚ maintaining‚ and enhancing successful company–customer relationships. These activities require an in-depth understanding of the underlying
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Introduction The service industry interacts with our lives on a daily basis. Services can be defined as deeds‚ processes and performances. When considering the differences between products and services‚ intangibility and the fact that a service cannot be touched‚ tasted‚ viewed or tried on are terms often used (McColl-Kennedy & Kiel 2000). Services differ from goods in essentially four ways: (1) intangibility; (2) inseparability; (3) heterogeneity; (4) perishability (Kotler‚ Brown‚ Adam‚ Burton
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Period 6 Cuba Known as the first island Christopher Columbus landed on in 1492 claiming the discovery of America‚ Cuba was already inhabited by native Indians. Most of the native Indians soon died off due to disease brought over by the European sailors and settlers. The island came under Spanish rule and African slaves were brought in to work the coffee and sugarcane plantations that supplied a third of the world’s demand at that time. Havana became the capital city from which annual treasure
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Customer Relationship Management: A Framework‚ Research Directions‚ and the Future Russell S. Winer Haas School of Business University of California at Berkeley April 2001 Introduction The essence of the information technology revolution and‚ in particular‚ the World Wide Web is the opportunity to build better relationships with customers than has been previously possible in the offline world. By combining the abilities to respond directly to customer requests and to provide the customer
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Carine Bourgeaux Nur Afidah Stephanie Courtadon Customer Relationship Management Case ROYAL BANK OF CANADA Developing and Implementing CRM Strategies Royal Bank of Canada I. A GLANCE LOOK OF RBC (Royal Bank of Canada) The Royal Bank of Canada is the leading financial services provider in Canada. It has a $ 165 million asset‚ $ 1 billion profit. The service from this company relates with a huge amount of customer‚ for their customer base reach over 10 million and 1.3 million of them already
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MKT01909-2013-A: Service Management for Tourism and Hospitality Assignment 1: Part A Lecturer: Tony Brown Deng Hongfei 22012540 Table of Contents Section 1: Introduction 5 Statement of the purpose 5 Objectives 5 Report structure overview 5 Section 2: Organization overview 6 Description of operations 6 Bundle of services 7 Core service 7 Peripheral services 7 Feasibility of the project 7 Section 3: Target Market Customers 8 Section
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CUSTOMER SATISFACTION MEASUREMENT IN HOTEL INDUSTRY: CONTENT ANALYSIS STUDY Ivanka Avelini Holjevac University of Rijeka Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management Opatija Opatija‚ Croatia e-mail: Ivanka.Avelini.Holjevac@fthm.hr Suzana Marković University of Rijeka Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management Opatija Opatija‚ Croatia e-mail: Suzana.Markovic@fthm.hr and Sanja Raspor University of Rijeka Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management Opatija Opatija‚ Croatia e-mail: sraspor@veleri
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Student ID: 0560943 / Service Management: Transforming Service Organisations This is to certify that the work I am submitting is my own. All external references and sources are clearly acknowledged and identified within the contents. I am aware of the University of Warwick regulation concerning plagiarism and collusion. No substantial part(s) of the work submitted here has also been submitted by me in other assessments for accredited courses of study‚ and I acknowledge that if this has been done
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The relationship between customer loyalty and customer satisfaction John T. Bowen University of Nevada‚ Las Vegas‚ Nevada‚ USA Shiang-Lih Chen University of Nevada‚ Las Vegas‚ Nevada‚ USA Keywords Customer loyalty‚ Customer satisfaction‚ Database marketing‚ Hotels Abstract Develops and implements a method for hotels to identify attributes that willincrease customerloyalty. Otherhotels can replicate the methodology used in this study. The study makes
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OF SOCIAL AND APPLIED SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Master Research Proposal Improving Customer Service Quality in 4-5 Star Hotels in North Cyprus Student Name - Asif HUSSAIN Supervisor Prof. Dr. ERDAL TURKAN Email: asif_del04@yahoo.com Address:13‚Kucuk Medrese sokak Lefkosa 27-01-2011 1. Title: Improving customer service quality in 4-5 Star Hotels in North Cyprus 2. Background This research will focus on an additive exploration
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