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Effective Customer Relationship Management: How Emotion Drives Sustainable Success
by Amy Carson Sauers
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ISBN Number: 9781604975147
Subtitle: How Emotion Drives Sustainable Success
Written by: Sauers, Amy Carson
Published by: Cambria Press
Filed Under: Customer relations
Filed Under: Relationship marketing
Filed Under: Customer Service
Filed Under: Industries, Service Industries
Filed Under: Marketing, General
Copyright: 2008
Date of Publication: July 2008
Cover Type: Hardcover
Written in: English
Number of Pages: 220
Book Size: 8.50x5.50x.63 in. .94 lbs.
By 2005, companies worldwide had created a $76-billion customer relationship management (CRM) software industry. These pioneers strove to streamline their customer transactions and maximize touchpoints over the lifecycle. On average, these dedicated, innovative firms spent the better part of a year implementing expensive CRM systems and renewing maintenance contracts. After all this devotion, investment, and IT integration, how could it be that up to 70% of CRM projects fail to live up to expectations? This book investigates the reason for relationship marketing's failure, and uncovers that this failure is not due solely to CRM IT implementation and strategy problems. The failure to establish long-term relationships with customers is because companies and research have ignored the emotional-relational component of developmental stages in human relationships. Relationship marketing is incomplete unless it models the stuff of real interpersonal relationships - developmental stages, trust, emotional mechanisms, and deeply felt commitment. This thesis is supported most strongly by the critical finding that emotions (rather than simply transactions or other success factors) are the primary drivers of stage progression. Therefore, traditional CRM software and, by implication, the relationship marketing vision of the firm is simply looking in the wrong place. The CRM technology itself tends to obfuscate the naked realization and raison d'etre, as James Autry profoundly mused, that There is no business, there are only people. The research in this book empirically maps the customer's emotional-relational journey, so that marketing may be better able to connect on an emotional level to wherecustomers are in the relationship stages to earn, not only commitment and profits, but also relational well-being. Book News Annotation: Sauers examines the role of emotion in customer relationships, and
how it can be used to gain trust and commitment. Describing the
relationship between customer and marketer as following a marriage
model, she maps the different stages of its development through a
study of 500 online customers of major electronics products over two
weeks in 2005, making recommendations to marketers on how to improve
it. Sauers works in marketing and customer analytics for a financial
startup.
Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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