Customer Relationship Management

This book balances the behavioural and database aspects of customer relationship management, providing students with a comprehensive introduction to an often overlooked, but important aspect of marketing strategy.

Baran and Galka deliver a book that helps students understand how an enhanced customer relationship strategy can differentiate an organisation in a highly competitive marketplace. This edition has several new features:

• Updates that take into account the latest research and changes in organisational dynamics, business-to-business relationships, social media, database management, and technology advances that impact CRM
• New material on big data and the use of mobile technology
• An overhaul of the social networking chapter, reflecting the true state of this dynamic aspect of customer relationship management today
• A broader discussion of the relationship between CRM and the marketing function, as well as its implications for the organisation as a whole
• Cutting edge examples and images to keep readers engaged and interested
• A complete typology of marketing strategies to be used in the CRM strategy cycle: acquisition, retention, and win-back of customers

With chapter summaries, key terms, questions, exercises, and cases, this book will truly appeal to upper-level students of customer relationship management. Online resources, including PowerPoint slides, an instructor’s manual, and test bank, provide instructors with everything they need for a comprehensive course in customer relationship management.

Customer Relationship Management by Roger J. Baran and Robert J. Galka is an essential read for those seeking to enhance their understanding of customer relationship strategies.