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Part Four Using Technology And Information To Build Customer Relationships. Chapter 8 E-Marketing And Customer Relationship Management. Objectives. Define electronic marketing and commerce and recognize increasing importance in strategic planning
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Part FourUsing Technology And Information To Build Customer Relationships
Objectives • Define electronic marketing and commerce and recognize increasing importance in strategic planning • Understand characteristics of electronic marketing and differentiate them from traditional marketing • Examine how characteristics of electronic marketing affect strategy • Understand how electronic marketing and information technology facilitate customer relationship management • Identify legal/ethical considerations in electronic marketing
Electronic Marketing • E-commerce – conducting business through telecommunications networks • E-marketing – creating, distributing, promoting, and pricing products for targeted customers over the Internet E-Commerce Analysis Tools Electronic Economy In Perspective
Consumer-GeneratedElectronic Marketing • Desire to learn about consumers’ opinions and experiences • Increased ability to exchange information between consumers
Blogs Web-based journals in which people can editorialize and interact with other Internet users. The State of Blogging
Wikis Software that create an interface that enables users to add or edit the content of some types of websites (also called wikis or wikipages). Wikipedia.org
Characteristics OfElectronic Marketing • Addressability • Interactivity • Memory • Control • Accessibility • Digitalization
Addressability A marketer’s ability to identify customers before they make a purchase.
Cookie An identifying string of text stored on a website visitor’s computer. What is an Internet cookie?
Interactivity The ability to allow customers to express their needs and wants directly to the firm in response to the firm’s marketing communications.
Community A sense of group membership or feeling of belonging by individual members.
Memory The ability to access databases or data warehouses containing individual customer profiles and purchase histories and use these data in real time to customize a marketing offer.
Companies like Iomega provide software to help create memory for saving data Reprinted with permission from Iomega Corporation
Database A collection of information arranged for easy access and retrieval. Data Mining
Control Customers’ ability to regulate the information they view and the rate and sequence of their exposure to that information.
Portal A multiservice website that serves as a gateway to other websites.
Accessibility The ability to obtain information available on the Internet.
Digitalization The ability to represent a product, or at least some of its benefits, as digital bits of information
E-Marketing StrategiesAnd Considerations • Product • Computers and related accessories biggest seller online • Customized orders • Services growing • Distribution • Order processing • Synchronization • Promotion • Augments traditional forms • Consumer in control • Pricing- More consumer information
CustomerRelationship Management • Database Marketing • Customer Lifetime Value • Technology Driven • Customer support • Call-center software • Customer Satisfaction
Elements OfDatabase Marketing • Identify/build database • Differentiate messages to consumers • Track relationships Database Marketing Overview
Questions For CLV • Which customers receive preferential treatment? • What channels used to interact with customer? • Timing of offering to customer? • Which are good prospects? • Allocation of resources? • Method of monitoring customers?
Technology Drives CRM • Customer Contact Points • Telephone • Fax • Online • Personal • Data Analysis • Customer support/call-center software • Sales automation software
Customer Satisfaction and CRM CRM is about relationships, not technology • technology can help build long-term relationships
Legal/Ethical IssuesIn E-Marketing • Privacy • Spam- unsolicited commercial e-mail
Goods And ServicesMarketed Through Spam Source: Ferris Research, in “Spam for Everyone,” The New York Times, Jan. 31, 2005, www.nytimes.com.