Measurement of Customer Loyalty
Fundamentals of Consumer Behaviour
Module 5
Customer Loyalty Measurement and Application
Module 5
Customer Loyalty Measurement and Application
Module description
In order to survive in the competitive business environment organisations have to concentrate upon strengthening their consumer’s satisfaction strategies for ensuring consumer loyalty in the long run of business. In order to incorporate a long term customer retention strategy, organisations are in immediate need for assessing and unveiling the reasons and elements prior to the designing and implementation process of the consumer retention programmes. The importance of consumer loyalty could be
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a) Burke’s Secure Customer Index
b) Performance Assessment
c) Simpact
d) Customer Loyalty Strategy
Summary
· Consumer loyalty could be defined as the situation or behaviour derived by the services and quality product of an organisation. The consumer satisfaction is sometimes is at the core of consumer loyalty.
· The importance of consumer loyalty measurement could be realised in terms of delivering understanding to the organisations regarding their present market situation and competitive advantages.
· The consumer loyalty measurement model would be utilised in order to assess the consumer loyalty for products and brands and at the same time it would help in constructing effective consumer retention strategies.
· The consumer loyalty measurement scales would help in addressing the elements that are responsible for delivering understanding in this regard.
Terminal Questions
1) What is the importance of consumer loyalty measurement models?
2) What are the ways in which consumer loyalty measurement scales are produced?
3) Evaluate the ways of using consumer loyalty measurement scales?
Answer
Many different alternatives exist to face the customer retention problem. One good alternative would be to use and develop a strong customer relation management strategy. With the information collected from the customer loyalty system, the company needs to develop a customer relation service. To improve the perceived value of the brand, the company should create a very developed customer service with a dedicated customer service number and an easy way to order cars. In the airports and main retail places, the company should develop a specific office/desk dedicated to the premium customers and those who have loyalty cards. So that, the consumers don’t lose time and can enjoy of a best quality service.
The fundamental principle upon which relationship marketing is founded is that the greater the level of customer satisfaction with the relationship – not just the product or service – then the greater the likelihood that the customer will stay with us. The importance of retaining customers is that there is strong evidence that customer retention and
Thus, companies seek to strengthen customer loyalty. Brand loyalty is considered to tilt the consumer to purchase the package / product specific brand (Jacoby and Chestnut, 1978). Later, Oliver (1997) defined loyalty as "a deeply held commitment to REBUY or repatronize preferred product / service consistently in the future, thereby causing repetitive same-brand or same brand set purchasing, despite situational influences and marketing activities, which would result in causing switching behavior "(p. 34). This conceptual definition covers two different aspects of loyalty: the behavioral. This is consistent with an integrated conceptual framework proposed by Dick and Basu (1994), that customer loyalty is regarded as a "power relationship between the relative position of the individual and repeat
Over the decades there were tremendous amount of challenges for every business. Customers have more knowledge, they have more options, and they have higher expectations. Customers are more informed with the humungous development in technology. Having more options in front of them, expectations has surpassed in retail industry. Loyalty is a customer having faith that your organization’s product or services offered is the best for them. It is the process of tapping the buying pattern of customers in a store based on their preferences. Customer loyalty is significant because it is economical to retain the old customers rather than acquiring new customers. So, organizations employ loyalty programs which reward customers for their repeat business.
From an organisations point of view, especially in the short term, it would seem more appropriate to concentrate on behavioural loyalty because this is reflected in sales behaviour. Such behaviour is easily measured compared to components of attitudinal loyalty and matches key managerial performance indicators. Attitudinal measures may also not reflect consumer’s actions when the consumer is confronted with real choice. However, from a longer term view and especially from a CRM viewpoint, it is also vitally important to measure attitudinal loyalty. Attitudinal loyalty is composed of commitment and trust in the brand and/or organisation which will have impacts on sales both in the short and longer term. This type of loyalty is more likely to be an indicator of the potential longer term relationships that will be possible with given customers. Attitudinal loyalty is also likely to have influence on word of mouth and customer advocacy which may lead to indirect impacts on longer term sales or on costs of servicing
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
Since customer retention is one of the most important domains over which brands compete, I have a keen interest therefore to study in detail how renowned brands, such as McDonald food chain use such strategies to remain successful in the industry.
Consumer loyalty => We put our customers' needs first and endeavor to surpass their desires.
Companies are misguided nowadays by the notion that customers depend on them, when the truth of the matter is that companies are dependent on those customers. Customer satisfaction and customer loyalty is now essential for a business or company to survive. So what is the difference between customer satisfaction and customer loyalty and how to companies and or business achieve this? Also when you have difficult customers how do you achieve customer satisfaction?
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
Brand Loyalty is a concept which has both attitudinal and behavioural components. Marketers are very concerned about brand loyalty. It is not simply about repurchasing. It consists of customer’s commitment towards the brand and consumption repeatedly whenever the need arises. In addition to that, customers might also act as advocates for the brand. Hence both the entities form a long lasting relationship. The success of any brand is dependent on its capability to attract customers. It is very critical for a brand to have a loyal set of customers who will stick with the brand always. Loyal customers are more likely to buy a brand than a customer who is not. This helps in generating a stable source of revenue. Sometimes brand loyalists engage in
one can measure loyalty by asking customers how the company does in the following areas:
Customer acquisition is an offensive marketing initiative which requires a well thought strategy and a budget to support the efforts. Customer retention has been associated with product branding and other marketing initiatives with no deliberate move to have a funded and organised customer retention process. Customer retention has been successful in situations where product delivery is successful by providing solutions to customer’s problem and creating trust with the customer.
To fundamentally survey the writing on the relationship between consumer loyalty and client faithfulness, including investigating and characterizing the idea of consumer loyalty and client reliability, investigating the elements influencing consumer loyalty, examining the constituent components of client dedication (attitudinal and behavioural) and why client steadfastness is seen as imperative for association like Door Supervisor in the UK. As per the examination point, confining of exploration targets will be set up so that further
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.