Volkswagen implemented several CRM practices in India such as targeting working professionals through LinkedIn, promoting their "Made in India" small cars, providing an "India Assistance Program" roadside support service, and creating an engaging digital campaign called "Planet Volkswagen" to educate customers.
Volkswagen implemented several CRM practices in India such as targeting working professionals through LinkedIn, promoting their "Made in India" small cars, providing an "India Assistance Program" roadside support service, and creating an engaging digital campaign called "Planet Volkswagen" to educate customers.
Volkswagen implemented several CRM practices in India such as targeting working professionals through LinkedIn, promoting their "Made in India" small cars, providing an "India Assistance Program" roadside support service, and creating an engaging digital campaign called "Planet Volkswagen" to educate customers.
Volkswagen implemented several CRM practices in India such as targeting working professionals through LinkedIn, promoting their "Made in India" small cars, providing an "India Assistance Program" roadside support service, and creating an engaging digital campaign called "Planet Volkswagen" to educate customers.
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The key takeaways are that customer relationship marketing (CRM) aims to build long-term relationships with customers through marketing strategies and activities to maximize loyalty. It also discusses the evolution and basis of CRM.
The goals of customer relationship marketing are customer acquisition, customer satisfaction, retention of customers, and enhancing the customer base.
Some of the benefits of relationship marketing for customers are receipt of greater value, confidence benefits like trust and reduced anxiety, and social benefits like familiarity. Some benefits for firms are economic benefits like increased revenues, customer behavior benefits like strong word-of-mouth, and human resource management benefits like easier jobs for employees.
Customer Relationship Marketing
Customer Relationship Marketing (CRM) is a business
process in which client relationships, customer loyalty and brand value are built through marketing strategies and activities. CRM allows businesses to develop long-term relationships with established and new customers while helping streamline corporate performance. It is the process of carefully managing detailed information about individual customers and all customer “touch points” to maximise loyalty. Evolution of Customers Relationship Marketing Period Focus area 1950’s Customer Good Marketing 1960’s Industrial Goods Marketing 1970’s Marketing of Non-Profit Organization or Societal Marketing 1980’s Services Marketing 1990’s Customers Relations Marketing Basis of CRM It requires building and maintaining long term relationship between buyers and sellers. It is based on trust and commitment between the two parties. Emphasis is on retaining the customers over making sales. CRM ranks customer service as a high priority. It encourages frequent customer contact. Fosters customer commitment with the firm. Bases customer interaction on cooperation and trust. Building loyalty:- 1. Interacting with customers 2. Developing loyalty programs: Frequency programs Club membership programs 3. Creating institutional ties Goals Of Relationship Marketing The goal of customer relationship marketing are: 1) Customer Acquisition 2) Customer Satisfaction 3) Retention of the customers 4) Enhancing the customer base Benefits of Relationship Marketing • Benefits for Customers: • Receipt of greater value • Confidence benefits: • Social benefits: • trust • familiarity
• confidencein provider • social support
• reduced anxiety • personal relationships • Special treatment benefits: • special deals • price breaks Benefits of Relationship Marketing Contd. • Benefits for Firms: • Human resource management • Economic benefits: benefits: • increased revenues • easier jobs for employees • reduced marketing and • social benefits for employees administrative cost • employee retention • regular revenue stream
• Customer behavior benefits:
• strong word-of-mouth endorsements • customer voluntary performance • social benefits to other customers • mentors to other customers • eCRM- describes the broad range of technologies used to support a company’s CRM strategy. • arises from the consolidation of traditional CRM with the e- business applications marketplace. • Development in the field of information and communication technology has increase the scope of CRM implementation in business Organizations, which leads to the rising of E-CRM concept. • eCRM will help to improve customer acquisition, customer development and customer retention. • E-mail and automated response considered as one of the important components of E-CRM. Increased customer loyalty Effective marketing Improved customer service and support Greater efficiency and cost reduction Type Public Headquartered Seattle, Washington Industry Coffee shop Products Coffee beverages, smoothies, tea, baked goods and sandwiches Revenue 19.16 billion ( 2015) No of locations 24464 • Meet your customers where they want to be met • Think mobile mobile mobile • Focus on personalization • Starbucks is offering convenient purchase option through smartphone mobile apps • Purchasing is made by Starbucks mobile app with the use of a scanner. Customers can reload balance through Paypal • Starbucks developed and implemented an iphone and android mobile application called “ starbucks card mobile application” for customers in the United States. • Feature of the app allows customers to generate a 2D barcode on their mobile device to be scanned and used as a payment in stores. It referred to the app “ the fastest way to pay”. • To increase the perceived benefits on the customers side, starbucks enables customers to receive rewards for the usage of mobile application by receiving a free coffee after a certain amount of purchases via card. • It is improving its core service by making it more convenient for customers to purchase their coffee( perceived service quality, perceived value). • It is also maintaining relationship bonds because the app utilizes the volume and frequency rewards in reward card feature. Case Study of Volkswagen India Background Volkswagen (VW) is one of the world’s leading automobile manufacturers and the largest carmaker in Europe. As Volkswagen pursues its goal of becoming the number one automaker in the world by 2018, India has become a key component of its strateg y. India is currently the world’s second fastest growing car market, with shipments expected to more than double by 2018. CRM Practice -1 “Attracting Working Professionals” Challenge • Create brand awareness among working professionals • Build loyalty and aspiration • Inf luence decision-making Solution • Establish VW-branded Company Page on LinkedIn • Enable LinkedIn members to recommend their favorite VW models • Use LinkedIn Recommendation Ads to extend reach CRM Practice -1 “Attracting Working Professionals” Why LinkedIn? • #1 Resource for career-minded professionals • Precise targeting by seniority and geography ensures match with affordability criteria, dealership locations Results • 2,700 product recommendations in 30 days • 2,300 new followers on VW India Company Page • 960,000 viral updates about VW car models CRM Practice -2 “Made In India” Challenge: To foray into the small car segment Solution: The campaign created by DDB Mudra and executed by MediaCom, clearly displayed the made in India factor in the Polo which is rolling out of the Chakan plant in Pune. CRM Practice -3 “India Assistance Program” The services that this program will offer to their passengers will be: Travel and accommodation of the passengers in the incidence of immobilization or theft of the vehicle. Transport to destination or habitual residence with luggage and personal belongings. Towing of the vehicle to VW nearest dealer. On site repair, if possible. Dispatch of fuel; Wheel replacement. Transportation, storage and safekeeping of the vehicle. CRM Practice -4 “Planet Volkswagen” A new digital campaign, like most of its other initiatives, it is rich in creativity and ideas. It features a rotating globe with different land masses for each of Volkswagen India’s departments. Since the brand is not very old but has caught on quickly with Indian people, many want to learn the heritage, technology and German company’s background. There’s a Junior section targeted at kids who Volkswagen see as future customers.