【市场营销英文版】05Customer Value and Customer Relationships

Click to edit Master title style,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,*,*,Customer Value and Customer Relationships,1,Customer Value,Marketing involves satisfying customers needs and wants; the task of any business is to deliver customer value at a profit.,2,Customer Value,The Value Creation and Delivery Sequence:,the three major steps,Choose the Value,Provide the Value,Communicate the Value,3,Customer Value,Choose the Value: Activities,Customer segmentation,Market selection/focus,Value positioning,Often referred to as Strategic Marketing.,4,Customer Value,Provide the Value: Activities,Product development,Service development,Pricing,Sourcing and Making,Distributing and Servicing,Often referred to as a part of Tactical Marketing.,5,Customer Value,Communicate the Value: Activities,Sales force,Sales promotion,Advertising,Often referred to as a part of Tactical Marketing.,6,Customer Value,Choose the Value: Helpful Concepts,STP: Segmentation, Targeting, Positioning,(factors to consider before the product exists, some call it the essence of strategic marketing),3Vs: Value Segment, Value Proposition, Value Network (Kumar of LSB),7,Customer Value,Defining Value and Satisfaction:,Customers always seek to gain the greatest benefit at the least cost.,8,Customer Value,Defining Value and Satisfaction: Key Concepts,Customer Perceived Value (CPV): customers evaluation of all of the benefits and costs of an offering.,Total Customer Benefit: perceived monetary value of all of the benefits a customer expects from an offering.,Total Customer Cost: perceived bundle of costs a customer expects to incur from an offering.,9,Customer Value,Total Customer Cost:,Monetary cost,Time cost,Energy cost,Psychic cost,Total Customer Benefit:,Product value,Services value,Personal value,Image value,10,Customer Value,Steps in Customer Value Analysis:,Identify the major attributes and benefits that customers value.,Assess the quantitative importance of the different attributes and benefits.,Assess the companys and competitors performances on the different customer values against their rated importance.,Examine how customers in a specific segment rate the companys performance against a specific major competitor on an individual attribute or benefit basis.,Monitor customer values over time.,11,Customer Value,Another important activity is cultivating customer loyalty.,Loyalty: deeply held commitment to re-buy or re-patronize a preferred product or service in the future despite situational influences and/or competitors marketing efforts to entice switching.,The key to cultivating loyalty is “delivering high customer value”.,12,Customer Value,Concepts to remember:,Value proposition: the whole cluster benefits the company promises to deliver.,Value deliver system: all of the experiences the customer will have on the way to obtaining and using the product or service.,13,Customer Value,Customer satisfaction is important too!,Satisfaction is determined by whether the product/services performance meets or surpasses expectations.,14,Customer Value,Factors that shape customer expectations:,Past buying experiences,Friends and associates advice,Marketers and competitors information and promises,If you raise expectations too high, the customer is likely to be disappointed.,If you set expectations too low, customers may ignore your product/service.,15,Customer Value,Satisfaction also depends on quality.,Quality: the totality of features and characteristics of a product/service.,16,Customer Value,Marketers six roles in helping define and deliver high quality to customers:,Bear the major responsibility for correctly identifying the customers needs and requirements.,Communicate customer expectations properly to product/service designers.,Make sure that customers orders are filled correctly and on time.,Ensure that customers receive the proper instructions, training, technical assistance in the use of the product/service.,Stay in touch with customers after the sale to ensure their satisfaction.,Gather customer ideas for product/service improvements and deliver them to the proper departments.,17,Customer Value,You should measure customer satisfaction regularly.,Satisfaction and loyalty tend to be linked.,High satisfaction often creates an emotional bond with the product/service.,18,Customer Relationships,Maximizing value of your customers means creating and cultivating long term customer relationships.,Instilling loyalty in your customers is the key.,19,Customer Relationships,The Five Levels of Relationship Marketing:,Basic marketing: selling the product/service (most common).,Reactive marketing: selling the product/service and encouraging customers to offer questions, comments, or complaints.,Accountable marketing: following up after the sale to see whether the product/service meets expectations and ask for improvement suggestions and specific disappointments.,Proactive marketing: contracting customers periodically with suggestions about new product/service uses or new products/services.,Partnership marketing: working continuously with customers to find ways to perform better.,20,Customer Relationships,Customer/distributor numbers, margin, and marketing relationship: usual relationship,21,Customer Relationships,Customer Relationship Management (CRM):,The process of managing detailed information about individual customers and carefully managing all customer “touch points” to maximize customer loyalty.,Customer Touch Point: any occasion when the customer encounters the brand and product/service.,22,Customer Relationships,CRM marketing can employ many techniques and methods.,Example: One-to-one marketing,Four step one-to-one marketing plan (Peppers and Rodgers),Identify your prospects and customers.,Differentiate customers in terms of 1) their needs and 2) their value to your company.,Interact with individual customers to improve your knowledge about their individual needs and to build stronger relationships.,Customize products, services, and messages to each customer.,23,Customer Relationships,Increase the Value of your Customer Base (or how to get more and continuous money from them),Strategy suggestions:,Reduce the customer defection rate through personalizing services.,Increase customer relationship longevity by getting more involved with your customers.,Enhance the growth potential of each customer through cross-selling, up-selling, and share-of-wallet.,Make low profit customers more profitable (or terminate them) by encouraging them to buy more, pay more, or forgo certain features or services.,24,Customer Relationships,The truth about customers today:,Smarter,More price conscious,More demanding,Less forgiving,Approached by many more competitors with equal or better offers,25,Customer Relationships,Therefore, retaining your customers is very important.,Retention Suggestions:,Adding financial benefits (i.e. frequent use programs),Adding Social benefits (i.e. individual service),Adding structural/institutional ties (i.e. special websites and computer linkages),26,Customer Relationships,Key Concepts:,Customer Equity: the total of the discounted lifetime value of all of the companys customers.,Value Equity: the customers objective assessment of the utility of a product/service based on perceptions of its benefits relative to its costs.,Brand Equity: the customers subjective and intangible assessment of the brand, above and beyond its objectively perceived value.,Relationship Equity: the customers tendency to stick with a brand, above and beyond objective and subjective assessments of its worth.,27,Customer Relationships,Customer profitability: What makes a customer profitable to a company?,When a customer spends more on a product/service that exceeds (by an acceptable amount) the companys cost of attracting, selling, and servicing that customer.,The focus on customer profitability has lead to classification (or the grouping) of customers by levels of desirability on the part of the company.,28,Customer Relationships,Customer Lifetime Value, key concept,The net present value of future profits from a customer over their lifetime of purchases.,Expressed in a formula:,= (expected customer revenues expected customer marketing/sales costs)/appropriate discount rate,29,Customer Relationships,Major tool for improving marketing efforts:,Company data bases and data mining,Companies now are creating huge databases that include information of their customers and their preferences.,30,Customer Relationships,How companies now use these databases to improve marketing efforts:,Identify the best prospects by sorting through a mass of responses,Match a specific offer with a specific customer as a way to sell, cross-sell, and up-sell,Deepen customer loyalty by remembering customer preferences and offering relevant incentives and information,Re-active customer purchasing through reminders or timely promotions,Avoid serious mistakes such as sending a customer two different offer the same product but at different prices,31,Customer Relationships,Problems deterring companies from effectively using their customer databases:,Difficulty in collecting the right data from customers when interacting with them,Difficulty of getting everyone in the company customer oriented and use the available information,Not all customers want an ongoing relationship with the company and resent the data collection,The assumptions behind CRM may not always hold true,32,