Amazon.co.uk Review
There are better ways to build customer relationships, argues Newell. He caused a stir in 1997 with The New Rules of Marketing, and now with Loyalty.com he wants to cause another one by declaring that most companies attempting to create customer loyalty are going about it all wrong. In fact, he shows that areas with the most aggressive loyalty programmes tend to have the least loyal customers--and vice versa. Today, writes Newell, the Internet has made market research cheaper and faster than ever. Software can be designed to predict what a customer will want before she knows she wants it, and the company can go straight to that particular customer to suggest she buy that particular product, rather than showering millions of potential customers with hundreds of product solicitations. It's not easy, and pitfalls abound, as Loyalty.com shows (the issue of customer privacy alone will be the subject of endless legislation in coming years). But the company that masters customer relations will be rewarded with both loyalty and profits. --Lou Schuler, Amazon.com
Product Description
Case studies and real-world examples show CRM in action and provide E-commerce marketing strategies for both business-to-customer and business-to-business success. Packed with analysis tools and measurement techniques for holding customers in an increasingly fragmented marketplace, Loyalty.com covers--then goes beyond--Internet and e-mail to reveal comprehensive programs for keeping customers well into the 21st century.
