Customer value is a concept that has to be defined by the customer and delivered by the supplier. i.e. We as the supplier business should not attempt to impose our idea of customer value upon our customers. We need to ascertain what their needs are; develop a product or service that meets that need at the balance between quality and price, which suits the customers own expectations – and accept that that combination of product/service, quality and price, dictated by the customer, amounts to customer value.
We must understand that those customer value expectations are not static, but instead are dynamic and ever-changing as they respond to the business environment, as well as our own delivery against those expectations. As we meet customer
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Discuss the concepts customer satisfaction, customer value and customer relationship in a manner that clearly explain the differences between these concepts as well as the alignment between these concepts in your business. Make use of practical business examples to highlight the meaning.
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Customer value is the benefit that the customer believes that they receive from our product or service, as discussed above.
* Customer satisfaction is critically hinged upon the ability to deliver an acceptable level of value to the customer in a consistent manner. Customer satisfaction is the measure of how our product/service meets the customer value expectations.
Customer relationships amount to more than just the sum of all customer interactions with our business. The customer relationship is a journey which commences before our customer is introduced to us, and persists long after the point of purchase of product / service.
We build value for the customer in order to achieve customer satisfaction and loyalty that will achieve a customer relationship which will result in employee/shareholder/stakeholder value.
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Use examples to illustrate your arguments.
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Customer service is critically important in our business. We sell product that is widely available ad our customer can elect to purchase from a variety of other sources. What differentiates us is a specialised level of service to an industry whose needs we understand and purport to meet. A failure in service levels causes us to fail to meet those specialised needs; and when that happens our customer may as well be buying from any generic supplier.
We need to strive to continuously understand and respond to our customers’ needs, maintaining levels of service which our customer is satisfied (and even delighted) with. This entails us studying our customers’ needs on an on-going basis, as well as determining their levels of satisfaction on an on-going basis, and then responding to the
- working with working staff to set up strategies, models and frameworks. - Setting client administration measures & assuring that the current standards satisfy the customers & helps retaining them. • Coordinating with the workers themselves can help effectively in setting appropriate models for the procedures & systems because they are the ones who interact directly with raw materials and producing the products, so they would know better if anything in manufacturing needs improvement or so. • It is important to satisfy the current customers in different possible ways in order to retain them which eventually leads in attracting more customers as well.
P1: Describe customers in four different contexts: A Market: A market is a place where demand and supply operate. Buyers and sellers interact to trade their good and services. (What is a market? , n.d.)
Introduction Zappos is an online shoe retailer that started its business in the year 1999. The company later expanded and increased the variety of the products of its business by adding clothing, beauty products, and housewares. The Zappos Customer Loyalty Team Case Study emphasizes on the customer service department and the initial focus the drop ship method. The company also created a brick and mortar storefront to expand the business from online only and increase sales. The management of Zappos took an innovative approach to earn their required return on investment.
Task 5 Customer satisfaction Customer satisfaction is an indication whether the expectations of a customer has been met. Customer satisfaction is an abstract concept where that involves factors like the products quality and quality of service and the locations atmosphere where the products are being purchased, and whether the prices are suitable for the products or service. Businesses uses customer satisfaction survey to find out whether the customers are satisfied with the services and the products of the company. It’s a leading indicator of consumer repurchase intentions and loyalty
We will provide on-going development towards our product and customer services in order to become the best in terms of customer value, employee talent and predictable growth so that it may achieve competitive advantage in this
Question 1 answer: Customer relationship management is mainly about building relationships with a company’s targeted profitable customers and maintaining that relationship through delivering customer value, as in how a consumer perceives a certain product and values it enough to buy it rather than buying the competitor’s product, and delivering customer satisfaction where the product meets the exact expectations the consumer had actually expected from the product or more, but not less. Companies can build customer relationships at many levels, depending on the nature of the target market (Kotler and Armstrong, 1988). Companies with many low-margin customers can develop basic relationships by which a company doesn’t get to know it’s consumers
As the largest company in the industry in North America, Sysco easily implements their strategy as redividing profitability. By adding values to their products, customers don’t just buy food as normal. Instead, customers recognize certain values that they receive from the food they buy. Increasing the value also becomes common in today business because there are many companies in the same industry provides similar products or
Stakeholder analysis Stakeholder are entity that will affect the organization actions, objectives and policies. There are two types of stakeholder which is internal stakeholder and external stakeholder. The McDonald’s stakeholders are customers, suppliers, employees, managers, government, local communities and pressure groups. Customers Customers are the external stakeholders of the company, no customer mean zero profit.
The teams processing the information for the customers for the service provided were contacted by the customers to assist them in making payments. Knowledge The knowledge about the buying criteria of the consumer and that there was greater opportunity for the differentiation strategy implemented based on the quality and the services offered for customers. Mike was also able to establish the fact that his relationship was not too smooth with the managers of the
This is the comparison of the benefits offered by a company's product to its customers relative to the price it asks customers to pay. To do this, companies can influence the value proposition in one of two ways mainly. This can be done through long term brand building. They can also offer a relatively low cost to enhance value. Ultimately, the key is that customers perceive that the product's merits exceedingly justify its price.
Task One Audit 1.1 Gflock’s three largest customer groups and their relative importance to the organization “Segmentation is the process of grouping customers in markets with some heterogeneity into smaller, more similar or homogeneous segment to target with a distinct Marketing Mix”. (Smith, 1956). The table below demonstrates the company’s five main customer groups out of which the Misses, Ladies and Mistresses were chosen as the key customer groups respectively according to the percentage of the market and their monthly income. (Table 1.1) Teens Misses Ladies Mistresses Madams Demographic Age 14-17 years 18-21 years 22-28 years
This deals with a customers’ perception that a product or service they are buying provides them with a higher value than a competitor. Superior quality can be broken down into two kinds of attributes: quality as excellence and quality as reliability. A customers’ perspective of quality as excellence would be that they want a product or service that provides features and a level of service that has no comparison. With regard to quality as excellence, if customers perceive that the products design, features, and functions are better than everyone else, then they would be more likely to buy their product. Higher quality products allow for a higher sense of value provided to the customer.
A customer refers to anyone who purchases and utilizes a company's products and services. Customers can be an immense concern for some companies due to customers changing their minds frequently along with other factors. Companies must understand the needs of its consumers
First of all customer means A person who buys goods or services from a shop or business, loyalty means the state or quality of being loyal, faithfulness to commitments or obligations. So Customer loyalty is the key objective of customer relationship management and describes the loyalty, which is established between a customer and companies, persons, products or brands. “Customer loyalty is an essential aspect in any organization whether it is offering a good or providing a service. “Many organizations are looking for various ways to increase their customer loyalty as it has a positive effect on the profitability of the organization.” (Gremler 1996: 171, Abdullah et al. 2000: 826).The individual market segments should be targeted in terms of developing customer loyalty.
Provide good customer service where customers are contacted, when a boat is purchase and a customer care call even having a boat over a period of time. 3. The constant innovation and patenting so customers can get better product each year, because in the marketing industries parts can be copied