International Journal of Information Management 30 (2010) 289–300 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect International Journal of Information Management journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/ijinfomgt Understanding customer satisfaction and loyalty: An empirical study of mobile instant messages in China Zhaohua Deng a,∗ , Yaobin Lu a , Kwok Kee Wei b , Jinlong Zhang a a b School of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1037 Luoyu Road, Hongshan District, Wuhan, China Department of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Keywords: Mobile instant message Trust Perceived customer value Perceived service quality Customer satisfaction …show more content…
There are other MIM services, such as Microsoft’s mobile MSN, Pica, China Unicom’s UMS, China Netcom’s MXIM, etc. For an MNO, deploying MIM can consolidate a firm’s position in the mobile commerce value chain with increasing ARPU (average revenue per user). For an IM service provider, developing MIM undoubtedly expands the channels of desktop IM. In such a competitive MIM market, MIM service providers are all making efforts to attract more users and gain more market shares. Thus, the ability to provide a high degree of customer satisfaction services is crucial to providers in differentiating themselves from their competitors. Specifically, in increasingly competitive markets, building strong relationships with customers, that is, developing the loyalty of consumers is seen as the key factor in winning market share and developing a sustainable competitive advantage (Luarn & Lin, 2003; Nasir, 2005). Loyal customers are crucial to business survival (Semejin, Van Riel Allard, Van Birgelen, 290 Z. Deng et al. / International Journal of Information Management 30 (2010) 289–300 & Streukens, 2005) because attracting new customers is considerably more expensive than retaining old customers (Reichheld & Schefter, 2000). Therefore, enterprises strive to increase their market share by maximizing customer retention (Tsoukatos & Rand, 2006). “[T]he potential and opportunity value of customers gained over a long period of time” is another advantage to
All market evidence should be linked to the customer, as opposed to competitors or the own product. A customer oriented management can keep a growing company
This will not only retain the existing customers but will also attract new ones to increase the customer base to optimal level.
Today’s world competition is very strong in every kind of businesses. Every organisations must provide high quality products or services in order to survive, however their competitors also providing the same or comparable products or services. An important way to an organisation to get an edge over its competitors is to provide extra service to satisfy and delight their customers, which can retain them and also gain new customers. Therefore the achievement of customer satisfaction must be a major objective in all organisations.
| Satisfaction is a primary factor in this sector, but not as concerned with excellence in customer service as the commercial sector. Rather than selling products to make profit they offer services to the community. The quality of and access to an organisation is usually guided by working to customer service charters. Making sure the services offered are satisfactory and beneficial to the community at the right price must be balanced.
Customer service must satisfy the needs of the customers to ensure a service companies’ quality is maintained.
many of them put this approach aside when it comes to managing their customers . Once the product is sold,
Retention is a reflection of a customer’s willingness to remain with a particular company’s service or products and is useful to measure customer loyalty. The relationship
At the heart of all of this is the fact that it is easier and cheaper to gain business from an existing customer than to attract a new one. Too often, it seems, greater focus is placed upon acquisition of new customers than satisfying existing ones (McDonald M 1993). This is ultimately expensive and the lack of current consumer focus inherent in the approach means that opportunities for increasing share of wallet from existing customers through cross-selling and upgrading products and services is lost.
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 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.
Maxis is one of the telecommunications service providers in Malaysia, enabling both individual and business customers to connect and communicate from any device. Such as voice calls, text and picture messaging services. As a provider of 3G and 4G extended range of data services such as mobile
Customer satisfaction and service quality are the two important components that direct anyone’s attention in every concept related to marketing, services, etc. (Spreng and Mackoy, 2006). In today’s competitive era, the success lies in
It is imperative to satisfy customers and give them an amazing experience at the company. While it cost less to sell to existing customers and companies can increase profit by selling to the same customers; if customers are satisfied, there is more chance they will come back for more services or products. Satisfied customers are a free marketing for the company. However, it is the opposite if customers are dissatisfied. Dissatisfied customer will tell 8 to 10 people about his or her experience (O’Brien, A & Marakas, G. 2004). If by any reason, representatives see that the customer is not satisfy, they should act fast and fix the problem. Furthermore, there is more chance for sale representatives to sell to an existing customer that to a new customer. A good strategy for customer retention is to reward good customers. Companies can easily do
Department of Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China b Department of Management of Organizations, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay Road, Hong Kong, China
Make Customers Come Back - Winning Customer Retention Strategies Customer Retention marketing is a tactically-driven strategy to keep relationships with customers going and increase customer interest. This strategy relies on the study of customer behavior. Here are the basic tenets of a marketer that seeks to increase customer retention: 1. Past and Current customer behavior This is the best predictor of how customers will behave in the future. They are the characteristics marketers should most often look at. Analyzing customer tendencies and trends allows the marketer to anticipate, if not predict, the customers reaction to different situations. The marketer must take note that behavior is action oriented, not a description. For example,