The document discusses customer satisfaction and delivering customer value. It states that satisfied customers will be repeat customers and loyal customers. Customer value is the difference between total customer value and total customer cost, which includes factors like product value, service value, personnel value, and image value, versus monetary price, time cost, and psychic cost. Customer satisfaction is the level of a person's state from comparing a product's perceived performance to their expectations. Companies can deliver customer value through their value chain and core business processes like product development, inventory management, and customer service. Maintaining customers reduces attrition costs and maintaining partnership-level customer relations is most profitable. Total quality management requires that quality be perceived by and reflected in all company activities to continuously improve