The Growth Of A New Business

Rapid growth seems to be a blessing. However, it depends on the company’s ability how they deal with it. The holiday season of 2009 showed the company’s inability to handle the orders that it received. Orders were not sent on time. Moreover, it delivered wrong order at times. To make the matters worse, the company was totally unable to fill some orders at all. This customer dissatisfaction might adversely

Firms must consider many strategies when attempting to realize growth. Depending upon the stage of

I think we need to build better relationships with our customers. With our current customers, it seems as if we are constantly just a one-time kind of business. We do not want to be that, we want the customers to return because they trust us. Not because they consistently have problems even with our help.

Therefore, many companies start adopting new customer product strategy that can seduce and engage more the customer.

Make a customer analysis and segment the market. What impact does your analysis have on the current business model of the company?

Taking in consideration the attrition rate during the past nine years, it seems to be more convenient try to convert the customers as early as possible; indeed

keep an existing customer than finding new ones. A major part of the customer service, especially in a retailing

The economic value of the existing customers can be calculated by multiplying the customer lifetime value of each segment by the segment’s size and then summing the value of all segments.

The company likewise has already employed various strategies in order to maintain the high growth rate of the company. However these strategies is soon to reach its capacity to ensure growth. Based on the case as well, what seems to be lacking in the strategies that the company employed before is marketing, control of costs, and

In recent years, the company experienced a rapid growth and expects a substantial increase in sales in the spring of

Customers are assets, and their values grow and decline. Segmenting customers based on their lifetime value is a powerful way to target them because marketing mix activities can then aim at enhancing customer value. (Ho, 2006)

The average annual retention rate of our customers acquired online is about 55% compared to a 65% retention rate for those acquired through branches. Online customers have lower balances and end up paying higher fees. The net annual income from online customers is therefore slightly higher than that of branch customers.

This will not only retain the existing customers but will also attract new ones to increase the customer base to optimal level.

When a company grows it achieves economies of scale, it increases its market shares and thus wipes out competition. A company starts making more profits and can use these in constructive ways such as employing specialist workers and improving the variety and quality of products, by delving more into research and development. These are only some of the

The learning and growth perspective uses the organization’s resources to adapt to the changing wants and needs of customers. The organizations must ask itself whether it can continue to improve and create value for its customers (Kinney and Raiborn 2013, 11). An organization’s ability to innovate and improve their products or services directly affects its value. An organization can create economic growth by developing new products and services, improving existing products and services, and developing more efficient operations (Kaplan and Norton January/February 1992, 75).