This document discusses relationship marketing and customer relationship development. It defines relationship marketing as activities aimed at developing long-term relationships with larger customers through maintaining customer profiles and purchase histories. Relationship marketing focuses on customer loyalty, interaction, and long-term engagement rather than acquiring new customers. Developing customer relationships provides benefits like consistent customer experience, obtaining customer feedback, increasing customer profitability, gaining customer advocates, and enabling innovation. Strategies for developing customer relationships include making every interaction count, following through on commitments, developing employees, offering desired value, treating customers as individuals, and listening to customers.