What Is Customer Loyalty

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Customer loyalty is both an attitudinal and behavioral tendency to favor one brand over all others, whether due to satisfaction with the product or service, its convenience or performance, or simply familiarity and comfort with the brand. Customer loyalty encourages consumers to shop more consistently, spend a greater share of wallet, and feel positive about a shopping experience, helping attract consumers to familiar brands in the face of a competitive environment.
Every supplier wants to create and retain a loyal customer who engages in continued profitable business with him. Customer Loyalty is the measure of success of the supplier in retaining a long term relationship with the customer. Thus customer loyalty is when a supplier receives …show more content…

It may be possible that the supplier may not have the best product or the customer may be having some problems with the supplier in respect of his supply of the product but the customer likes to ignore other options and prefers to continue with the same supplier as the customer thinks the supplier provides him more value and benefit than others. Such loyal customers tend to spend more money buy more, buy longer and tell more people about the product or supplier. This type of long-term customer loyalty can only be created by making the customers feel that they are number one priority with the supplier.
Some customers are inherently predictable and loyal, irrespective of the supplier with which they are doing business. They simply prefer long-term relationships with him. Loyal customers are predisposed to stay with one product or supplier, resisting competitive offers and also recommend the supplier to …show more content…

If a person made most purchases in a given product category from one supplier, regardless of the reason, the person was defined as loyal. As Kumar and Shah from the University of Connecticut’s School of Business (2004) point out, “a majority of existing loyalty programs follow these measures to reward behavioral loyalty. That is, the more you spend with the company, the more rewards you earn”.
A second element of loyalty is attitudinal loyalty. Like behavioral loyalty, attitudinal definitions have existed for a long time. This second element of loyalty focuses on how strong the psychological commitment or attachment is to the brand. By itself, it too has limitations. For example, how loyal are people who rave about a product and promote it to their friends, but then for whatever reason fail to buy it regularly

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