Customer loyalty of the cement Products: the role of marketing, service quality and customer satisfaction
Dachlan Taha 1), Basri Modding 2), Sabri Hasan 3), Hamza Ella 4)
1) Doctoral Student in the Faculty of Economics, Muslim University of Indonesia
2, 3, 4) Faculty of Economics, Muslim University of Indonesia
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to analyze marketing, service quality and its impact on customer satisfaction and customer loyalty, and analyze the influence marketing and service quality on customer loyalty as a mediator customer satisfaction. Research conducted in South Sulawesi province with a sample of 215 local and national developers who use Tonasa cement products. Data from the questionnaires were analyzed using
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On this basis then the cement company should be able to consider the orientation of customer loyalty to the end consumer, namely the developers of housing and building projects. The next fact is found in general that the final consumer as a customer often complain of cement products bought from Tonasa Cement Company. Complaints and dissatisfaction often do not get the channel or container to listen to the voice of the customer. As a matter of fact end customer also realize that a lack of awareness of the company in the management system of complaints and suggestions cause cannot determine the level of customer satisfaction, but it is rarely conduct a survey on customer satisfaction in fact, the company has limited to ghost shopping for the detection sensitivity of the products that customers use. And the management company also rarely makes contact with the customer as the final consumer who needs to get attention form. As a result of the lack of consideration and attention to the final consumer much less …show more content…
An exogenous variable is a variable whose value is determined outside the model. While the endogenous variable is a variable whose value is determined by an equation or model relationship is formed. Included in this group of exogenous variables is the measurement of marketing and service quality, while those classified as an endogenous variable is customer satisfaction and loyalty. The model is said to be good when the development of theoretically hypothetical model supported by empirical data. The result of SEM analysis is complete can be seen in the following
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