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Dewasish Ghoshal
PGDM (Agri-Business)


An Ultimate Customer Power “Customer equity”:
“Gone are those days when customer’s satisfaction was crucial, today it is the value and delight
apart from satisfaction that consumers are looking forward”. In this new globalized world many
firms are offering similar kind of product; it is difficult for any firm to retain their present
customers as well as to attract new customers. Now the question arises how do I manage the
brand? How will my customers react to change in products or services? Should I raise price?
What is the best way to enhance the relationship with my current customers? Where should I
focus my efforts? For all these question there is one answer that is “customer equity”.

 The basic premise of customer equity is straight forward: Your customer is a financial asset that
your company or organization should measure, manage, and maximize, just like any other asset.
Customer equity is more directly related to the bottom line in the financial statement than any
other business parameter such as brand value and equity, product portfolio and proprietary
technologies, etc., and should be maneuvered to maximize the contribution. Meritus considers
customer equity management to be the foundation of a truly customer-centric focused
organization and strategy.

Customer equity management is a dynamic, integrated marketing system that uses financial
valuation techniques and data about customers to optimize acquisition, retention and
opportunities to sell additional products and services to a firm’s customers. This in turn
maximizes the value to the company of the customer relationship throughout its life cycle.
Although many of the concepts that underlay customer equity management, such as customer
retention marketing and customer lifetime value measurement, are not new, the way that a true
customer equity approach unifies and moves beyond them, is innovative.

Traditional marketing has evolved through direct marketing paradigm in the center of which new
marketing concept is developed. This is the concept of customer, where customer orientation is
no longer marketing form but company strategies. The new customer concept concerns the
creation and design of superior customer value for company’s selected targets in order to obtain
long term profits. New marketing activities such as creation of customer life time value,
attraction and retention of customers are developed, thus matching the customer preferences of
product and services to prices, facilitated communication, promotion, specified distribution
channels.
 In the last two decades, managerial trends have tended to focus on either cost management or
revenue growth. Customer equity management balances the two, creating market-based growth
while carefully evaluating the profitability and ROI of marketing investment.
But customer equity management is more than just a method for calculating the asset value of
customer relationships. It is a total marketing practice and system and requires integrative
business strategies. Firms will need to develop strategies that simultaneously manage products
and customers throughout the customer life cycle and that reframe brand and product strategies
within the context of their efforts toward customer equity. In addition, customer equity
framework changes the way a business allocates resources and efforts. Today, most marketing
functions allocate resources by product line but with a customer orientation, the customer life
cycle determines how managers distribute resources. Companies that adopt customer equity
management also need to build organizations, processes, and performance measures that work
together to maximize customer asset value.

There are two fundamental reasons for companies to move to a customer equity management
approach. First, several critical new technologies are converging to make customer asset-based
management feasible. This approach is possible in part because of intersecting advances in four
areas: affordable information technology, low-cost communications, sophisticated statistical
modeling and flexible fulfillment.

Customer equity management depends on technology because it requires the ability to build and
use databases of customer purchases. Computing costs are continuing to decline to the point that
even small businesses can have computing power sufficient to manage large databases at a
fraction of what it would have cost in the last decades. The ability to work with large,
sophisticated databases is improving; software to manage customer relationships now exists, and
its capabilities are expanding.
The rapid growth of the Internet as a medium for targeted communications allows firms to reach
and communicate with customers at less than one-hundredth of the cost of more traditional
techniques. Using direct marketing through the mail costs anywhere from 0.4 to 1$ per piece,
whereas communication through the Internet to customers equipped with email is virtually free;
the speed of transmission allows customers to retrieve communications almost instantaneously.

Organizations that use customer equity management as an acknowledged and strategic marketing
practice and system benefit because they can do the following:
         Compute the asset value of customers to make informed decisions regarding
           investments in acquisition, retention, add-on selling as well as manage and recover
           valuable attritions
         Adjust marketing investment levels as customer relationships move through their
           dynamic life cycles
         Organize processes and structures around acquisition, retention, and add-on selling to
           maximize the profitability of each over the customer life cycle
         Utilize customer interactions to reinforce relationships and acquire new customers
         Address the needs of segmented customers through tailored offering of services and
           products
The customer equity recognizes customers as the primary source of both current and future cash-
flow. In this frame work, the firm is interested in maximizing the net present value of both
current and future pools of customers, which is considered a good proxy for the value of a firm.
Although it may seem obvious that customer equity is key to long term success, understanding
how to grow and manage customer equity is more complex. How to grow it is of utmost
importance, and doing it well can create a significant competitive advantage. There are three
drivers of customer equity – value equity, brand equity and relationship equity. These drivers
work independently and together. Within each of these drivers are specific, incisive actions, or
drivers the firm can take to enhance its overall customer equity.

Once the concept of maximizing customer asset value is pointed out, it seems obvious. Yet most
firms do not act as if they consider customers as assets. Instead they maximize product line or
transaction profitability. Product-line maximizers use traditional accounting measures and
product management as tools. By focusing on product and transaction profitability to the
exclusion of customer asset value, they often increase near-term profits but forfeit longer-term
prosperity.

             In short, customer equity offers a powerful new approach to marketing strategy
replacing product based strategy with a competitive strategy approach based on growing the long
term value of the firm.

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Customer Equity

  • 1. Dewasish Ghoshal PGDM (Agri-Business) An Ultimate Customer Power “Customer equity”: “Gone are those days when customer’s satisfaction was crucial, today it is the value and delight apart from satisfaction that consumers are looking forward”. In this new globalized world many firms are offering similar kind of product; it is difficult for any firm to retain their present customers as well as to attract new customers. Now the question arises how do I manage the brand? How will my customers react to change in products or services? Should I raise price? What is the best way to enhance the relationship with my current customers? Where should I focus my efforts? For all these question there is one answer that is “customer equity”. The basic premise of customer equity is straight forward: Your customer is a financial asset that your company or organization should measure, manage, and maximize, just like any other asset. Customer equity is more directly related to the bottom line in the financial statement than any other business parameter such as brand value and equity, product portfolio and proprietary technologies, etc., and should be maneuvered to maximize the contribution. Meritus considers customer equity management to be the foundation of a truly customer-centric focused organization and strategy. Customer equity management is a dynamic, integrated marketing system that uses financial valuation techniques and data about customers to optimize acquisition, retention and opportunities to sell additional products and services to a firm’s customers. This in turn maximizes the value to the company of the customer relationship throughout its life cycle. Although many of the concepts that underlay customer equity management, such as customer retention marketing and customer lifetime value measurement, are not new, the way that a true customer equity approach unifies and moves beyond them, is innovative. Traditional marketing has evolved through direct marketing paradigm in the center of which new marketing concept is developed. This is the concept of customer, where customer orientation is no longer marketing form but company strategies. The new customer concept concerns the creation and design of superior customer value for company’s selected targets in order to obtain long term profits. New marketing activities such as creation of customer life time value, attraction and retention of customers are developed, thus matching the customer preferences of product and services to prices, facilitated communication, promotion, specified distribution channels. In the last two decades, managerial trends have tended to focus on either cost management or revenue growth. Customer equity management balances the two, creating market-based growth while carefully evaluating the profitability and ROI of marketing investment.
  • 2. But customer equity management is more than just a method for calculating the asset value of customer relationships. It is a total marketing practice and system and requires integrative business strategies. Firms will need to develop strategies that simultaneously manage products and customers throughout the customer life cycle and that reframe brand and product strategies within the context of their efforts toward customer equity. In addition, customer equity framework changes the way a business allocates resources and efforts. Today, most marketing functions allocate resources by product line but with a customer orientation, the customer life cycle determines how managers distribute resources. Companies that adopt customer equity management also need to build organizations, processes, and performance measures that work together to maximize customer asset value. There are two fundamental reasons for companies to move to a customer equity management approach. First, several critical new technologies are converging to make customer asset-based management feasible. This approach is possible in part because of intersecting advances in four areas: affordable information technology, low-cost communications, sophisticated statistical modeling and flexible fulfillment. Customer equity management depends on technology because it requires the ability to build and use databases of customer purchases. Computing costs are continuing to decline to the point that even small businesses can have computing power sufficient to manage large databases at a fraction of what it would have cost in the last decades. The ability to work with large, sophisticated databases is improving; software to manage customer relationships now exists, and its capabilities are expanding. The rapid growth of the Internet as a medium for targeted communications allows firms to reach and communicate with customers at less than one-hundredth of the cost of more traditional techniques. Using direct marketing through the mail costs anywhere from 0.4 to 1$ per piece, whereas communication through the Internet to customers equipped with email is virtually free; the speed of transmission allows customers to retrieve communications almost instantaneously. Organizations that use customer equity management as an acknowledged and strategic marketing practice and system benefit because they can do the following:  Compute the asset value of customers to make informed decisions regarding investments in acquisition, retention, add-on selling as well as manage and recover valuable attritions  Adjust marketing investment levels as customer relationships move through their dynamic life cycles  Organize processes and structures around acquisition, retention, and add-on selling to maximize the profitability of each over the customer life cycle  Utilize customer interactions to reinforce relationships and acquire new customers  Address the needs of segmented customers through tailored offering of services and products
  • 3. The customer equity recognizes customers as the primary source of both current and future cash- flow. In this frame work, the firm is interested in maximizing the net present value of both current and future pools of customers, which is considered a good proxy for the value of a firm. Although it may seem obvious that customer equity is key to long term success, understanding how to grow and manage customer equity is more complex. How to grow it is of utmost importance, and doing it well can create a significant competitive advantage. There are three drivers of customer equity – value equity, brand equity and relationship equity. These drivers work independently and together. Within each of these drivers are specific, incisive actions, or drivers the firm can take to enhance its overall customer equity. Once the concept of maximizing customer asset value is pointed out, it seems obvious. Yet most firms do not act as if they consider customers as assets. Instead they maximize product line or transaction profitability. Product-line maximizers use traditional accounting measures and product management as tools. By focusing on product and transaction profitability to the exclusion of customer asset value, they often increase near-term profits but forfeit longer-term prosperity. In short, customer equity offers a powerful new approach to marketing strategy replacing product based strategy with a competitive strategy approach based on growing the long term value of the firm.