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303CustomerRelations
Customer Relations
Term | Definition |
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Competition | The rivalry between two or more businesses to attract scarce customer dollars. |
Corporate culture | The values and ideals that an organization encourages among its employees |
Courtesy | Polite behaviors ;good manners |
Customer loyalty | The customer's preference for a business; usually expressed in regular purchases from the business |
Customer relations | All the activities a business engages in to interact with its customers |
Customer service | Activities and benefits provided by a business to its customers to create goodwill and customer satisfaction |
Customer-centric | Focused on customer needs and wants |
Etiquette | Rules applying to acceptable behavior |
FAQ's | Frequently asked questions ; used by businesses to answer questions on their websites or other marketing material |
Incentive | Something that will fulfill a customer's specific desire or need |
Internal customers | The people (i.e., employees) who work cooperatively together to achieve business goals |
Patronage | Loyalty to a particular business |
Proactive | Adapting to the environment in advance of the occurrence of events ; taking advantage of opportunities rather than reacting to problems |
Productivity | Thee amount and the value of goods and services produced (outputs) from set amounts of resources (inputs) |
Respect | Regard or esteem |
Target market | The particular group of customers a business seeks to attract |
Touchpoints | All the opportunities that businesses have to connect with customers and reinforce their brand value |
Word-of-mouth promotion | Promotion for a business provided by customers who tell others of their satisfaction with the business |