This document contains a coursework header sheet for a student submitting an essay on relationship marketing and e-CRM. It provides information on the course code, school, assessment details, submission deadline, and a statement that the work is the student's own. The contents page lists sections on social media, ways to form relationships through CRM, using social media for service recovery, CRM implementation and challenges, and maintaining dialogue using online/offline communication.
MIS 13 Customer Relationship ManagementTushar B Kute
The slides are created for 'Management Information System' subject of SEIT under University of Pune, INDIA.
Subject Teacher: Mr. Tushar B Kute,
Sandip Institute of Technology and Research Centre, Nashik.
Introduction
Content is a nexus between the sales and marketing functions in most organizations. The traditional content model calls for marketing to produce content assets and sales to use them. Having this model work well requires a great deal of intentionality on the part of both functions: marketing must endeavor to understand customer content needs and how well the assets they produce engages those customers. Then, the sales team must diligently provide feedback to marketing so that content quality and effectiveness rises.
While this model is conceptually simple, there are challenges related to alignment that impact content effectiveness in the form of visibility, communications, feedback, process, tools and even culture. The statistics tell the story: when the level of sales/marketing alignment is high, 81% of study participants report that marketing content meets sales’ needs well. However, when alignment is poor or non-existent, the content effectiveness percentage drops to 35%.
Quality content that is easy for sales to find and use is a critical success factor in sales interactions. The dynamics of the content process are not difficult to understand, but the content creation, deployment, usage and feedback loop is often a point of friction between sales and marketing. This friction is not one-sided; marketing is frustrated when it has limited feedback and visibility into the use of content assets. The sales team gets frustrated when content assets don’t meet customers’ need, or those assets are hard to find and use. This frustration is more than just an inconvenience: 70% of sales teams acknowledge that the lack of effective content negatively impacts the outcome of a sales conversation.
Since content is so often the key to successful sales interactions, it merits constant attention and improvement efforts. Demand Metric and Showpad together conducted research to understand the sales-marketing relationship around content, and how it affects sales interactions. This research shares key insights, such as when marketing has little or no visibility into sales conversations, only 32% of the content produced meets the needs of sales team well. This research will help organizations understand how to get better results from their marketing content.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Executive Summary
- The Content Process
- Content Process Success Factors
- Content Use
- Content Impact on Revenue
- Analyst Bottom Line
- Acknowledgements
- About Showpad
- About Demand Metric
- Appendix - Survey Background
This presentation talks about basic principle and techniques of social media analytics. Covering basic data representation of social media, content analysis and network data analysis
Omnichannel Customer Experience. Companies such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple already know that the future of user experience is automated interface creation depending on customer needs.
MIS 13 Customer Relationship ManagementTushar B Kute
The slides are created for 'Management Information System' subject of SEIT under University of Pune, INDIA.
Subject Teacher: Mr. Tushar B Kute,
Sandip Institute of Technology and Research Centre, Nashik.
Introduction
Content is a nexus between the sales and marketing functions in most organizations. The traditional content model calls for marketing to produce content assets and sales to use them. Having this model work well requires a great deal of intentionality on the part of both functions: marketing must endeavor to understand customer content needs and how well the assets they produce engages those customers. Then, the sales team must diligently provide feedback to marketing so that content quality and effectiveness rises.
While this model is conceptually simple, there are challenges related to alignment that impact content effectiveness in the form of visibility, communications, feedback, process, tools and even culture. The statistics tell the story: when the level of sales/marketing alignment is high, 81% of study participants report that marketing content meets sales’ needs well. However, when alignment is poor or non-existent, the content effectiveness percentage drops to 35%.
Quality content that is easy for sales to find and use is a critical success factor in sales interactions. The dynamics of the content process are not difficult to understand, but the content creation, deployment, usage and feedback loop is often a point of friction between sales and marketing. This friction is not one-sided; marketing is frustrated when it has limited feedback and visibility into the use of content assets. The sales team gets frustrated when content assets don’t meet customers’ need, or those assets are hard to find and use. This frustration is more than just an inconvenience: 70% of sales teams acknowledge that the lack of effective content negatively impacts the outcome of a sales conversation.
Since content is so often the key to successful sales interactions, it merits constant attention and improvement efforts. Demand Metric and Showpad together conducted research to understand the sales-marketing relationship around content, and how it affects sales interactions. This research shares key insights, such as when marketing has little or no visibility into sales conversations, only 32% of the content produced meets the needs of sales team well. This research will help organizations understand how to get better results from their marketing content.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Executive Summary
- The Content Process
- Content Process Success Factors
- Content Use
- Content Impact on Revenue
- Analyst Bottom Line
- Acknowledgements
- About Showpad
- About Demand Metric
- Appendix - Survey Background
This presentation talks about basic principle and techniques of social media analytics. Covering basic data representation of social media, content analysis and network data analysis
Omnichannel Customer Experience. Companies such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple already know that the future of user experience is automated interface creation depending on customer needs.
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the role of Social media on CRM. The researcher selected the study sample randomly by distributing 365
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found that there were (28) questionnaires invalid for the statistical analysis. Thus, the total number of
respondents was (274). In order to answer the study questions and test its hypotheses, the researcher extracted
the arithmetic means and standard deviations and applied the multiple regression equation. Accordingly, the
study reached too many results, most important of which is that there is a statistically significant effect for
Social media on achieving the effectiveness of the CRM. The study recommended the need that JIB seeks for
adding various characteristics of editing, deleting, copying, and setting time on the basis of text messaging
through such networks as well as the need of conducting marketing studies aimed to enabling banks to achieve
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Contents
Coursework Header Sheet................................................................................................................0
Introduction to Social Media and Web 2.0 ...........................................................................................4
Ways to form relationships through CRM.............................................................................................5
How Social Media is utilized as a Service Recovery tool.........................................................................7
CRMimplementation and Challenges ................................................................................................10
Maintaining dialogue using offline communication.............................................................................11
Challenges........................................................................................................................................12
Conclusions:.....................................................................................................................................13
Bibliography.....................................................................................................................................14
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Introductionto Social Media and Web 2.0
According to Tsimonis & Dimitriadis, (2014) the speedy transformation of the World Wide Web has
offered customers with many different opportunities and few of them are; to look for information,
converse without any limitation, and the benefit to express feelings and sentiments on social media.
Similarly, Sam&Larissa, (2013, pp. 01) mentioned thatsocial media penetrates among these platforms
such as; (desktopcomputers,mobile phones,tablets,andlastlyonmodernnetwork capable television)
whichas a resultcreates a diverse network of individuals with their shared moments of everyday life.
The author further cited from Boyd and Ellison (2007), that there was a time when social networking
sites (SNSs) were just for the young, but today it has been penetrated between young and old in
everydaylife. However, Tsimonis&Dimitriadis, (2014) cited Dicky and lewis, (2010) that because of the
increasingpenetrationof social mediainsociety,majorfirmsare increasinglyconsideringthem as a part
of their marketing and brand building activities cited (Gallaugher and Ransbotham, 2010).
Alternatively Jung, Ineson, & Green, (2013) stated social networking sites as a great opportunity In
Contrast, it is also defined as a network of consumers from all demographic groups who are becoming
literate withsocial mediaalsowithsubstantial advancement in technology. Furthermore, In relation to
the previous mentioning this author also states that this situation poses some opportunities and
challengesfor marketers and recommended for them to glide and take benefit of social media and its
differenttypeslike;blogs,social networks, content communities, forums, bulletin boards and content
aggregators. (Williams & Chinn, 2010).
Social media can be translated as a tool from which consumers can communicate, connect and
collaborate withothers andthese toolsare basedinWeb2.0 technologiesthatwasfirstfoundedby Tim
o’Reilly (Williams & Chinn, 2010). Additionally, Tsimonis & Dimitriadis (2014) cited Constantinides and
Fountain(2008, p.232) explainsWeb2.0 as a collection of open source, interactive and user controlled
online applications that increases the experiences and market power of the online consumers in
businessandsocial operations.However, Berthon,Pitt,Plangger,&Shapiro, (2012) states that from this
newconceptof web2.0 usersare benefitedwithrichcontext,interactive websitesthatare userfriendly
which induce participations. Furthermore, the author also describes about “creative consumers” as a
newemergingsituationinthe online setting and called them the dynamos of the new media, which is
often referred to as consumer generated media (CGM). As identified by Akar & Topçu, (2011) the
population on social networking sites mentioning the most popular “Facebook” has more than 100
million visitors per month cited (Chui, miller and Roberts, 2009). Thus, these (SNSs) are becoming an
essential partof ourdailylives,whichiswhysocial mediais a rising phenomenon in marketing. (Akar &
Topçu, 2011).
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(Berthon et al., 2012)
Ways to form relationships throughCRM
According to Liang & Chen, (2009) relationship marketing is interacting with customers, and service
providersfounditimportanttoprovide seasoned, favorable, tailored intermingled communications is
essential whichisafoundationtodevelopsuccessfulrelational exchanges with customers. Additionally
Jung et al., (2013) cited Cook and Emerson (1984) where he added that this idea of relationship
marketingiscomplex andderivedfromseveral theories but most of the contribution come from social
exchange and social network theory which is essentially a part of everyone’s life. Additionally, it has
beensaidthat, Relationship Marketing has developed as a major central point for business strategy in
the recentpast years. (Bejou&Palmer, 1998). In contrast, Vivek, Beatty, & Morgan, (2012) argued from
the pioneers on relationship marketing (Morgan and Hunt 1994), (Gronroos, 1990) and (Berry and
Parasuraman, 1991) and said that, it is aimed only to enhance, retain and maintain relationship with
existing customers and less attention given to ‘acquire’ new customers. However, Bruhn (2003, p 13)
firstreference tomarketinggoals,andthenstatedthatthe transaction marketing activities are focused
onlyto acquire newcustomersandfurtherclaimsthat relationship marketing not only acquire but also
emphasize on retention and recovery. Therefore, as Jung et al., (2013) cited Cox (2009) that social
networking can be used as an cutting-edge marketing landscape which has the ability to grip and
converse directly with a potentially broad audience from actual customers.
On the other hand, Williams & Chinn, (2010) analyzed the relationship quality view of relationship
marketingwithinthe sportscontextbyexaminingthe impactof the main relationship constructs that is
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trust,commitment and satisfaction. Furthermore, the author found that relationship quality indicates
the behavioral effect. However, Bejou&Palmer, (1998) identifiedthatanaffective level of attentionhas
been to the development of trust. Whereas, Liang & Chen, (2009) agreed that satisfaction works as a
core element of interaction for good relationship between buyers and sellers. While Sashi, (2012)
mentioned that potential level of satisfaction is achieved only when the customer expectations are
surpassed and their emotions turned into a positive influence which is being explained as not only a
formof satisfactionbutafeelingof pleasure from the experience. Conversely, Bejou & Palmer, (1998)
mentionedthattrustwill be developed only when the perceived experience syncs with the promised
performance.
Therefore,the keytomaintaincustomersatisfactionistouse social CRMwhich enable organizations to
connect each other anywhere and however they want (Diamond and Ferrara, 2013), because several
previousstudieshasconfirmedthatsatisfactionaffectscustomerretention (Peter C. Verhoef, 2014). As
a result it will gain chances of creating long-term customer life cycle. In Contrast, Lacy, Diamond and
Ferrara,(2013) states the benefitsbyusing CRMitis possible totrackand manage the activities that are
requiredtomove customersthrough a sales buying cycle. However, Bruhn, (2003) cited Strauss, (2000)
mentioning the product life cycle curve (PLC) and added that because of the shift from the product
orientedmarketingtomore customerfocusedmarketing,hence, it is reasonable to implement the life
cycle concept to the maturation of customer relationship.
Thus, Tsimonis & Dimitriadis, (2014) stated consumer engagement as one of the important criteria to
consider to form relationship between seller and customer. Because, for business it is important to
provide collaborative experiences and dialogue that customers can value, which will result of getting
behavioral responses with establishment of trust and commitment (Baird & Parasnis, 2011). However
this behavioral context is being referred to the action taken by the user on social media (Vivek et al.,
2012). To confirm, Baird & Parasnis, (2011) calculated the percent of companies use social media and
came withananalysis; around70% of executivesconfirmedthattheybelieve they are not in touch with
their customers if they do not engage, additionally with a proof that over half of the competition is
victoriously maintaining the relationship with their customers on social media.
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(Baird & Parasnis, 2011)
Hence, this being identified that customer engagement do play a role within customers to build
emotional bonds (Sashi,2012),and more likelytoadvocate andmake purchase decisions through social
media such as Facebook, Twitter than from previously they were engaged. (Akar & Topçu, 2011) cited
(Chadwick Martin Bailey, 2011). Hence, the author suggested focusing on a customer engagement by
satisfyingandprovidingthemthe ultimatevalue thanthe competitorstobuildtrustand commitment in
long-term relationships.
HowSocial Media is utilized as a Service Recovery tool
Sashi, (2012) hasidentifiedthatthe risinginterestinconsumerengagementisthe reasonforthe birthof
newdigital technologies. Additionallyhe alsomentionedthe benefits onsocial media, thatorganizations
can construct relationships with new and old customers and builds groups that can engage to discern
and comprehendproblemsand provides solutionsfortheircustomers. Owning to the fact that, if these
social media activities are executed properly than it can greatly improve the brands marketing,
communications,andcustomerservice,since broadly,theseactivities and practices point out to create,
modifyandshare information among the network of your own community that is your family, friends,
co-workers andespeciallyyourcustomers (Connor&Macmillan,2009). Indeed,social media have been
accepted as the most effective online environment for relationship building (Tsimonis & Dimitriadis,
2014). Asa result, Akar& Topçu, (2011) mentionsthatmarketershasstartedtocomprehend the use of
social media in their marketing strategies and campaigns to acquire more customers
However, Ajmeraetal., (2013) pointsoutthat customersengagedona social media brand page expect
attentiontotheirqueriesandresponses,justlikelyatraditional CRMmodel such as e-mail or phone, In
contrast to above, the negative point he mentioned that all conversations on a brand page are public
and visible foranyone tosee.Hence the majordisadvantage of this thatpessimistic conversation can go
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viral in no time and as a result the organization act on the conversations near to real-time. In contrast,
Tsimonis&Dimitriadis, (2014) citedDekay(2012) that receivingnegative Facebook comments is one of
the most uncertainsituationsthathappenveryoften,however,according to recent studies most of the
companiesignore responding to negative feedback. Moreover, the firms who take give importance at
this step; they do not acquire definite strategies that can help alter those comments in effective
opportunity for communication.
furthermore, Ajmera et al., (2013) shares an example of a social CRM on an automotive brand page on
Facebook, where initially customer first wrote a dissatisfied experience and complaint about the
company. Next, Other customers took interest to learn the problem and provide a solution for it.
Howeverthe firstpersonwhocomplainedwasnotanticipatinganyresponsebutgetinvolvedto resolve
the issue.Eventuallythe companyandothercustomerscontinue tohelpthe personuntil he is satisfied.
This is a clear example that shows how social CRMcan help the customer to solve their problems and
turninga bad sentimentintopositive,nottoforgetthat this effort equally requires the company to get
engage inthe conversationsorelse the customerwillmore likely to get lost. Thus, Akar & Topçu, (2011)
cited Blackshaw and Nazzaro (2005) who stated that the online users are important for marketers
because they are engaged and constructive, and due to this nature they are not hesitant to use new
products and share their experiences within their own online community.
(Ajmera et al., 2013)
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In relation to the above example, Sashi, (2012) confirms that when any problem happens in a
relationshipwithin a customer engagement, it is likely to be resolved with a positive acceptance or an
encouraging discussion instead of withdrawing from the engagement. Also Jung et al., (2013) cited
Wang et al.(2002) whostatedthat consumers are now passivelyshowing interest to scope out to firms
to share their experiences in the form of criticism, appreciation, or asking a question and anticipate a
quickresponse because of the exclusionof time barrier wreck by the internet. He continue citing Hong
and Wang (2009) that a customerfirmrelationshipisbeingestablished through the contribution of the
marketers by giving attention to their matters and acknowledge back to their questions.
Thus, From the above example, it is now evident that the potential value and benefits that can be
utilized to meet relationship marketing objectives on social media are significant (Williams & Chinn,
2010). Hence, these rapid developments in technology have opened new and creative ways for
organizations to connect and create individual relationships with each of their customers.
In addition to above, Bilgram, Bartl, & Biel, (2010) stated an analysis of online consumers and social
mediahavingthe goal to understandtheirneeds,desire,questions,andpossiblesolutionsthatare being
expressedwithin the online communities, and later the discussions were analyzed using a qualitative
data analysissoftware,andthe finding expose that the consumers conversing about several problems
rolling around the buying of the product.
(Bilgram et al., 2010)
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CRM implementationand Challenges
According to (Ahearne, Rapp, Mariadoss, & Ganesan, 2012) defines CRM as a process of recording
customer information and with it creating an appropriate strategy in communication with the sales
personto maximize salesperformance,furthermore the process includes the recognition of prospects,
up-selling,cross-sellingwithinthe currentcustomers.However, Ko, Kim, Kim, & Woo, (2008) cites Swift
(2001) who defines CRM as an endeavor approach to define consumer behavior using purposeful
communications in order to improve customer acquisition, retention, loyalty and profitability.
Additionally,because of itstechnologicalorientationithasbeenrecognizedas a powerful management
tool of managing customer relationship in an integrated approach using these three components;
people, process and technology (Kimiloglu & Zarali, 2009) cited (Chen and Popowich, 2003)
But, Osarenkhoe & Bennani , (2007) cited hertz and Vilgon (2002) that several CRMimplementation
projects were executed in difficulties because of technically not delivering the expected business
benefits. Thus, Kimiloglu & Zarali, (2009) understanding the content of CRM and comprehending its
impact on organizational outcomes for e-business is important.
Therefore,the approachesforimplementinge-CRMare explainedin detailed by Chaffey (2006) and are
usedto achieve online customeracquisition,retention and to successfully go through with the process
of relationshipbuildingtoaccomplishdifferentlevel of customerlifecycle.The processof implementing
the strategy is divided in 5 stages.
(Dave, Fiona, Kevin, & Richard, 2006)
1. Acquire new and existing customers
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The author statedthe objecthere isto attract qualityvisitorsfromdifferent channels and with creative
promotions like competitions or free information’s related to the niche.
2a. Incentivize visitors to actions
Here it issuggestedthe qualityandcredibilityof the shouldfulfill toretainthe visitor interest, so he can
spend his time on the website.
2b. Capture customer information to maintain relationship
As discussed previously, recording the customer database is one of the most essential steps in CRM,
however for online such databases are collected using the form illustrated.
3. Maintain dialogue using online communication
Maintaining a relationship between customer and organization it is suggested by the author that e-
mailingtocustomer and displaying targeted information on the website for customer are some of the
main methods of making direct communication. As well as other physical methods of establishing
contact with the customers is to encourage them to return on the website by using loyalty schemes
(which will generate a need to check loyalty points in account) or share product or price promotions.
Maintaining dialogue using offline communication
For this method, the author advised to use e-mail or direct mail as the most suitable form of
communicationbecause of its customizable nature tailored to each individual and to their preference
with the objective to increase traffic to the website.
Conversely, Kimiloglu & Zarali, (2009) cited Liu et al. (2006) that the important factors of the e-CRM
success is ‘responsiveness’ to the customer enquiries and ‘efficiency’ of the e-CRMimplementation.
From the cost reduction and time saving perspective. However, e-CRM is not about technology and
software cited Rigbyet al., (2002) but about syncing the business processes with the consumer plan of
actionbenefitedwiththe technology.Thus,the objectiveof CRMis to attaina competitive advantage in
managing customers, Ko et al., (2008) cited (Gartner group, 2006), improve customer service and keep
valuable customers (Fjermestad & Romano, 2003).
therefore, Kimiloglu & Zarali, (2009) researched the factors of success in e-CRM and found that
companies with greater sense of e-CRM success claimed increase in customer satisfaction and
transaction frequency and amount. Including the customers of the organizations shows an addition in
the usage/re-usage and re-buying frequencies from different departments from the site. In fact the
amountof time customersspentwasgreatlyhigherforbusinesses that were more successful in e-CRM
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To confirm, Fjermestad&Romano,(2003) adaptedan e-CRMimplementationframeworkthatillustrates
the benefits it can have such as greater ROI, and increased customer loyalty Scullin et al. (2002) He
stated 4 direct benefits mentioning the example for each of them which are as follows:
1. As a result of capturing information through an e-CRM system, it can help an organization to
categorize the actual cost of acquiring and retaining individual customers including increased
customer loyalty
2. Moreeffective marketing canbe done because of havingdetailedcustomerinformation from e-
CRM system;itgivesthe leveragetothe company to predict the type of products the customer
will likely to buy including the time of purchase.
3. Customer satisfaction will improve as they more likely to get receive accurate information’s,
updates about the product.
4. Greater efficiency and cost reduction isexpectedthrough the consolidation of customer data in
one database whichgivesanopportunitytothe marketing teams to exchange information and
gather with different department and work for common objectives.
Challenges
Some of the challengesdescribedby Ajmera et al., (2013) for implementing a social CRM system is the
informal nature of content, which leads to an highly unstructured, misspelled noisy and poor
grammatical content. Whereas, CRMtechnicalities such as e-mail is not able to translate unstructured
medium effectively. He further mentioned priority determination as an important challenge to
overcome because of the significantnumberof actionable posts, additionally priority selection to each
one of themisto obtainbestimplementationof customerservice. Lastly he stated that analytical tricks
required the data in a sequential order for the best level of accuracy. However in the age of social
media, finding sequential data is a big challenge. In contrast, Herbert & Ave, (2004) cited Meredith
Levinson (2004) stated that identifying a business need is a crucial step first and then to develop the
system. Furthermore the author suggested the organizations to truly scrutinize themselves for CRM
implementation as the planning, and strategy should have to go with the organizations values and
mission statement.
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Conclusions:
The fact that, day by day, it’s becoming easier to communicate on internet because of its interactive
nature and for companies it is now possible to track their consumer from all touch points, and
transactiontypesfromwhere itispossible togathersignificantamountof informationon the consumer
interestsandserverthe customersaccordinglysuchas:givinginstantcustomerservice or responding to
the inquiries faster with a recovery approach. Comparatively, all of this process can be done from the
traditional methods but it will be less convenient, take more time and not customizable for every
individual customer such as person – person or telephone service (Liang & Chen, 2009). Additionally,
alsostatedby (Baird& Parasnis,2011) that utilizingsocial mediaasa mediumforcustomerengagement
constructingchallenges for traditional customer relationship management methods. Therefore as per
the suggestions made by author, the companies should enfold their new strategies using social CRM.
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