Customer Relationship Management
COIS 485:
E-Marketing Strategies

Chapter Objectives
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After reading this chapter, you will be able to:
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Define customer relationship management (CRM) and
identify the major benefits to e-marketers.
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Outline the three pillars of relationship marketing for e-
marketing.
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Describe social CRM and how it relates to traditional CRM.
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Discuss the nine major components needed for effective
and efficient CRM in e-marketing.
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Highlight some of the company-side and client-side tools
that e-marketers use to enhance their CRM processes.
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Differentiate CRM metrics by customer life cycle stage.
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Relationship Marketing Defined
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Relationship marketing is about establishing,
maintaining, enhancing, and commercializing
customer relationships through promise
fulfillment.
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A firm using relationship marketing focuses
more on
wallet share,
the amount of sales one
customer can generate over time, than on
market share.
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From Mass Marketing To
Relationship Marketing
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Stakeholders
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The four stakeholders most affected by internet
technologies include:
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Employees who need training and access to
data and systems used for relationship
management.
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Business customers in the supply chain.
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Lateral partners, such as other businesses,
not-for-profit organizations, or governments.
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Consumers who are end users of products and
services.
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3 pillars of relationship marketing
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Customer Relationship Management
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CRM is a philosophy, strategy, and process that
includes all 3 pillars.
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The benefits of CRM 1.0 include:
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Increased revenue from better targeting.
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Increased wallet share with current customers.
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Longer retention of customers.
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The cost of acquiring a new customer is typically 5
to 7 times higher than the cost of retaining a
current customer.
