Customer Loyalty

According to Pacelli “High customer satisfaction translates to customer loyalty, and loyalty is one of the biggest drivers of corporate growth” (PACELLI, 2011)

The aspects of business success that Jones (2012) chooses to study are that of customer retention and employee satisfaction. Being able to minimize the loss of customers correlates to improved financial

Customer Satisfied can become loyal and loyal customers may also lower marketing costs since retaining customers is significantly cheaper than attracting new ones. (Johnston and Clark 2008)

Hannen (2001: cited in Reading Pack) said that keeping existing customers is cheaper than finding the new ones. However, the retailing industry is a ‘generic market’ and a lot of effort is needed to build meaningful relationships with the consumers.

Customer loyalty is much harder to obtain that customer service satisfaction. The most important first step is to satisfy the customer by meeting their expectations. Customers only give a company one chance and if they aren’t satisfied they will not do business with that company again, as well as tell others of their experience. The next step would be to exceed the customer’s expectations. If a business goes above and beyond to assist the customer they begin to build loyalty. The next step is to truly surprise the customer. In order to dominate the marketplace the company must find a way to make them selves stand out with their product or service, accompanied with phenomenal customer service. Once this has been done customer satisfaction and loyalty will be gained. “Acquiring a new customer can cost four or five times more than keeping a current customer” (Bestmark, 2013). So it’s essential to keep the current customer’s happy and coming back for more.

CUSTOMER LOYALTY DRIVES PROFITABILITY AND GROWTH: To maximize profit, managers have pursued the Holy Grail of becoming number-one or -two in their industries for nearly two decades. Recently, however, new measures of service industries like software and banking suggest that customer loyalty is a more important determinant of profit (see Frederick F. Reichheld and W. Earl Sasser, Jr., “Zero Defections: Quality Comes to Services,” HBR September–October 1990). Reichheld and Sasser estimate that a 5% increase in customer loyalty can produce profit increases from 25% to 85%. They conclude that quality of market share, measured in terms of customer loyalty, deserves as much attention as quantity of share.

Verhoef, P. C., 2003. Understanding the Effect of Customer Relationship Management Efforts on Customer Retention and Customer Share Development. Journal of Marketing, 67(4), pp.

This paper discusses why building customer relationships is a key factor in the overall success of any business. The objective of developing customer relationships is to enable a business to learn who its customers are and what value they can bring to the business. As businesses look for new ways to strategically build their customers retention, a determined customer-oriented staff is imperative. It will increase customer satisfaction and loyalty because the entire service experience will be exceptional. Managers should therefore select, train, and reward employees who have developed great relationships with customers. This paper will show that when customer relationships are effectively utilized, results will increase profitability and greater customer loyalty, two key needs for any organization.

Customer loyalty is an important element for the companies for being successful in the competitive world. Therefore, companies always try to increase the number of loyal customers and the degree of their customers’ loyalty. For obtaining this, the elements, which cause a decrease in customer loyalty, must be learned carefully. The reasons for the decrease in customer loyalty are: (Coroglu, 2002)

Relationship marketing is about forming long-term relationships with customers rather than trying to persuade a one-time sale. Relationship marketing tries to encourage customer loyalty by providing excellent products and services. Relationship marketing is different than most normal advertising practices that solely focus on a single transaction. Relationship marketing is usually not linked to a single product or offer. It involves a company refining the way they do business in order to maximise the value of that relationship for the customer.

Marketing strategy will help service organisation to define the overall direction and goals for marketing their products.In a business world,Marketing relationships to customers is very important from management and employees.The importance and emphasis on relationship marketing attributes trust Thus,creating customer loyalty.Managers or leaders focus on buiding trust ang giving their best efforts to enhance communication, showing concern and empathy for customer to become loyal to the product. The objective of service organization is to make the organization’s share of customer loyalty as high as possible to raise customer share of wallet,constancy of purchase and long-term profitabitlity.

Customer retention is the activity that a selling organization undertakes in order to reduce customer defections. Successful customer retention starts with the first contact an organization has with a customer and continues throughout the entire lifetime of a relationship. A company’s ability to attract and retain new customers, is not only related to its product or services, but strongly related to the way it services its existing customers and the reputation it creates within and across the marketplace.

The term “Brand Loyalty” also called as “Customer Loyalty” has been in the business industry since a very long time as a model to be used in conducting business. But it wasn’t until the mid to late 1900’s that the term was actually given its due importance by making it a vital part of advertising and marketing. The concept of marketing evolved substantially from being focused on sales of a product to having Customer satisfaction to be its focal point. Studies further revealed that there was a positive correlation between customer satisfaction and Brand Loyalty.

The purpose of this research is to study the relationship between customer satisfaction and consumer loyalty and apply its relationship into all the market industries including products and services, particularly in financial institutions. Preliminary sample data (N=80) will be collected from faculties and students at Johnson and Wales University of all ethnicities, national and international students. The hypothesis of the study is developed as H1: There is a significant positive relationship between customer loyalty and customer satisfaction. A t-test for independent samples is used to address the hypothesis. The discussion of the study indicated that there is a significant positive relationship between customer loyalty and customer satisfaction, however, it is important to fully understand that the loyalty which is the main goal of each industry is very hard to achieve and is not very easy to be reached by industries due to the customer satisfaction which is very hard to reach by itself, and the service quality as well. There are many other variables that can affect the consumer loyalty such as the high level of competition among today’s companies and the fast track of technological advancement. These reasons indicate that companies should work hard because loyalty is a fleeting issue, today’s loyal customer would not be tomorrow’s loyal customer.

in the accommodation industry, such as the telecommunication sector, such kind of strategies play an essential part in order to enhance the retention. In marketing, customer relations should be translated into availaing and loyal customers. Relationship marketing has aced to become the topmost strategic element of concern in the recent few years. it distributes basically a direct impact over the firm’s objective performance and also, it indicates that the vigour of the relationship marketing rides high when the relationships are inclined towards customers.