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■A business philosophy and set of strategies,
programs, and systems that focus on identifying and building loyalty
with a retailer’s most valuable customers.
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Customer Relationship Marketing (CRM)
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■All customers are not equally profitable, and
more or less
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Profitable customers need to be treated differently
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■Retailers now concentrate on providing more
value to their best customers
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Using targeted promotions and services to
increase their share of wallet
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– the percentage of the customers’ purchases
made from the retailer
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Share of wallet
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■Committed to purchasing merchandise and
services from a retailer
■Resist efforts of competitors to attract the
loyal customer
■Emotional attachment to retailer
nPersonal attention
nMemorable positive
experiences
Brand building communications programs
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Customer loyalty
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Can Offering Price Discounts Achieve
Customer Loyalty? |
No!
Retail strategies
like these can be copied by competitors
These strategies
encourage customers to be always looking for the best deal rather than
developing a relationship with a retailer
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is an iterative process that turns customer data into customer
loyalty through four activities:
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CRM
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1.Collecting customer data
2.Analyzing the customer
data and identifying target customers
3.Developing CRM programs
4.Implementing CRM
programs
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CRM Process Cycle
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a complete history of
purchases
nPurchase date, price
paid, SKUs bought, whether or not the purchase was stimulated by a promotion
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■Transactions –
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Visits to web site,
inquires to call center, direct mail sent to customer
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■Customer contacts by
retailer (touch points) --
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■Customer preferences
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nDemographic and psychographic data |
■Descriptive information
about customer
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■Customer’s responses to
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Marketing activities
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■Asking for identifying information nTelephone number, name and address ■Offering frequent shopper cards nLoyalty programs that identify and provide rewards to customers who patronize a retailer nPrivate label credit card (that has the store’s name on it) ■Connecting Internet purchasing data with the stores |
Approaches that store-based retailers use:
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■Notice and awareness
comprehensive
statement about information storage, manipulation, and dissemination
■Choice/consent
Opt-in and opt-out
options
■Access/participation
Customer able to
confirm accuracy
■Integrity/security
Controls for theft
and tampering
■Enforcement/redress
Mechanism to insure
compliance
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FTC Guideline for Fair Information Practices
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