Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Managing Customer Relationships or Sport Marketing

Managing Customer Relationships: A Strategic Framework

Author: Don Peppers

In today’s competitive marketplace, customer relationship management is critical to a company’s profitability and long-term success. To become more customer focused, skilled managers, IT professionals and marketing executives must understand how to build profitable relationships with each customer and to make managerial decisions every day designed to increase the value of a company by making managerial decisions that will grow the value of the customer base. The goal is to build long-term relationships with customers and generate increased customer loyalty and higher margins. In Managing Customer Relationships, Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, credited with founding the customer-relationship revolution in 1993 when they invented the term "one-to-one marketing," provide the definitive overview of what it takes to keep customers coming back for years to come.

Presenting a comprehensive framework for customer relationship management, Managing Customer Relationships provides CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, CMOs, privacy officers , human resources managers, marketing executives, sales teams, distribution managers, professors, and students with a logical overview of the background, the methodology, and the particulars of managing customer relationships for competitive advantage. Here, renowned customer relationship management pioneers Peppers and Rogers incorporate many of the principles of individualized customer relationships that they are best known for, including a complete overview of the background and history of the subject, relationship theory, IDIC (Identify-Differentiate-Interact-Customize) methodology, metrics, data management, customer management, companyorganization, channel issues, and the store of the future.

One of the first books designed to develop an understanding of the pedagogy of managing customer relationships, with an emphasis on customer strategies and building customer value, Managing Customer Relationships features:

Pioneering theories and principles of individualized customer relationships

An overview of relationship theory

Contributions from such revolutionary leaders as Philip Kotler, Esther Dyson, Geoffrey Moore, and Seth Godin

Guidelines for identifying customers and differentiating them by value and need

Tips for using the tools of interactivity and customization to build learning relationships

Coverage of the importance of privacy and customer feedback

Advice for measuring the success of customer-based initiatives

The future and evolution of retailing

An appendix that examines the qualities needed in a firm’s customer relationship leaders, and that provides fundamental tools for embarking on a career in managing customer relationships or helping a company use customer value as the basis for executive decisions

The techniques in Managing Customer Relationships can help any company sharpen its competitive advantage.



Table of Contents:
Preface
Ch. 1Evolution of relationships with customers3
Roots of customer relationship management5
The view from here11
Get, keep, and grow customers in the twenty-first century17
What is a relationship?19
The technology revolution and the customer revolution23
Ch. 2The thinking behind customer relationships35
What characterizes a relationship?35
Thinking about relationship theory38
CRM : the customer's view51
The nature of loyalty56
Ch. 3Customer relationships : basic building blocks of IDIC and trust65
Trust and relationships happen in Tandem66
IDIC : four implementation tasks for creating and managing customer relationships68
How does trust characterize a learning relationship?71
The trust equation : generating customer trust72
Becoming the customer's trusted agent78
Relationships require information, but information comes only with trust81
Ch. 4Identifying customers87
Individual information requires customer recognition88
What does "identify" mean?93
The internet's role in customer identification : betting on Amazon97
Customer data revolution98
Role of smart markets in managing relationships with customers103
Ch. 5Differentiating customers : some customers are worth more than others113
Customer value is a future-oriented variable114
Different customers have different values120
Convergys : a case study in using proxy variables to rank customers by their value127
Ch. 6Differentiating customers by their needs137
Definitions138
Differentiating customers by need : an illustration141
Understanding needs145
Using needs differentiation to build customer value147
Differentiating customers by their needs : a practical approach148
Ch. 7Interacting with customers : customer collaboration strategy161
Dialogue requirements162
Implicit and explicit bargains164
Succeeding at interaction strategy means integrating across touchpoints169
Integrated marketing communications and CRM : friends or foes?172
Customer interaction and dialogue management179
Complaining customer as collaborators185
Ch. 8Using the tools of interactivity to build learning relationships191
Customer-based software sampler192
Using e-mail to interact with customers196
Using e-mail to build customer value196
Evolution of the customer interaction center in the context of IDIC203
Wireless rules : how new mobile technologies will transform CRM208
Ch. 9Privacy and customer feedback213
Permission marketing217
Privacy issues for the information age223
Individual privacy and data protection228
Privacy in Europe is a different world232
Privacy pledges build enterprise trust235
Submitting data online238
Privacy on the net241
Ch. 10Using mass customization to build learning relationships255
How can customization be profitable?256
You're only as agile as your customers think263
Technology accelerates mass customization277
Customization of standardized products and services279
Value streams282
Who will write the new business rules for personalization?287
Ch. 11Measuring the success of customer-based initiatives299
Brand equity versus customer equity300
Nature of customer loyalty : attitude or behavior?301
Economics of loyalty302
Customer profitability metrics307
Longitudinal metrics and short-term gain309
Measuring customer satisfaction315
Managing customer relationships : metrics case study321
Ch. 12Customer analytics and the customer-strategy enterprise341
Optimizing customer relationships with advanced analytics350
Ch. 13Organizing and managing the profitable customer-strategy enterprise359
Capabilities for forging customer relationships363
Relationship governance370
How to get there from here : transitions to customer management375
The manager of portfolios of customers380
Stages of change to become a customer-strategy enterprise381
Transition across the enterprise386
Managing employees in the customer-strategy enterprise397
Overcoming employee resistance397
Loyalty-based management400
Momentum building in the customer-based enterprise407
Ch. 14Delivery channel issues of the enterprise focused on building customer value411
Dealing with channel pain412
Distribution system management417
General Motors' Vauxhall division : managing the customer experience across channels and touchpoints420
Demand chain and distribution428
Supply chain management and managing customer relationships430
Ch. 15Store of the future and the evolution of retailing451
Consumer direct channel454
Using operational excellence as a competitive advantage : Tesco464
The online store and the role of the brand in online shopping472
Final mile to consumers479
Logistics business models for success483
AppWhere do we go from here?487
Index498

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Sport Marketing

Author: Bernard J Mullin

The first edition of Sport Marketing was a groundbreaking text in the emerging sport management field. Now, the three internationally recognized experts who helped define the field have updated and expanded their pioneering text. Sport Marketing (Second Edition) reflects the latest developments in the industry and contains valuable new information.

Authors Mullin, Hardy, and Sutton have not simply borrowed mainstream marketing theory and applied it to sports-they've actually built distinct new theory about sport marketing based on their own extensive field experience and research. With this accessible, entertaining text readers will become skilled at

  • Studying and understanding the market
  • Developing a strategy
  • Clarifying the sport organization's needs and goals
  • Implementing marketing plans through sponsorship, licensing, pricing, promotions, advertising, broadcasting, and sales Abundant case studies translate several sport marketing professionals' experiences into learning scenarios that help readers understand how to apply the core concepts. There are also chapter objectives and summaries (Wrap-Ups) to guide students through the material, plus a collection of observations on future trends in the field contributed by leading sport marketing professionals.

    Essential for students and practitioners alike, Sport Marketing integrates and applies broad theory and specific examples to teach readers the fundamental principles of successful sport marketing.

    Booknews

    New edition of a text in which Stephen Hardy (U. of New Hampshire), Bernard J. Mullin (Roller Hockey International, Inc.) and William A. Sutton (U. of Massachusetts-Amherst) present new theory about sport marketing based on their own extensive field experience and research. The 18 chapters reveal how to study and understand the market, develop a marketing strategy, clarify a sport organization's needs and goals, and implement marketing plans through sponsorship, licensing, pricing, promotions, advertising, broadcasting and sales. Case studies translate several professionals' experiences into learning scenarios. Concludes with observations of future trends in the field. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)



    Table of Contents:
    About the Authors
    Preface
    Photo Credits
    Ch. 1The Special Nature of Sport Marketing1
    Ch. 2Marketing Management in Sport: An Overview27
    Ch. 3The Sport Consumer43
    Ch. 4Perspectives in Sport Consumer Behavior59
    Ch. 5The Role of Research in Sport Marketing87
    Ch. 6Market Segmentation119
    Ch. 7The Sport Product135
    Ch. 8Pricing Strategies157
    Ch. 9Promotions175
    Ch. 10Promotional Licensing203
    Ch. 11Place227
    Ch. 12Public Relations247
    Ch. 13Coordinating and Controlling the Marketing Mix265
    Index287
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