CRM: Strategies, Processes, and Key Concepts

Understanding Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

CRM is the combination of practices, strategies, and technologies that companies use to manage and analyze customer interactions and data throughout the customer lifecycle. It involves four categories of markets: consumer, business, government, and international.

Relationship Marketing and CRM

Relationship Marketing is a strategy of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) that emphasizes customer retention, satisfaction, and lifetime customer value.

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Strategic Marketing and Consumer Behavior

Marketing

Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large.

Marketing Process

Step 1: Understanding Consumers and the Marketplace: Consumers’ needs and wants are fulfilled by market offerings: combinations of products, services, and information offered to satisfy a need or want. Beware of marketing myopia. Consider brand experiences (e.g., Disney experience)

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Community Health Project Planning: A Step-by-Step Approach

Planning Community Health Projects

Planning community health projects involves identifying priorities, setting aims and objectives, defining the target population, identifying resources, developing a strategy, assigning personal responsibility, creating a time schedule, establishing a budget, and devising an evaluation strategy.

Steps in Planning Community Health Projects:

  • Identifying Needs and Priorities: Community analysis and goal setting.
  • Setting Aims and Objectives: Defining what you want to achieve.
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Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative Methods & Error Types

Research Design

Probabilistic Methods (Random Sampling)

  • Simple Random Sampling: Each member of the population has an equal chance of being selected. May not preserve population characteristics.
  • Stratified Random Sampling: Divide the population into subgroups (strata) based on relevant characteristics, then randomly sample from each subgroup. Requires knowledge of population subgroups.

Non-Probabilistic Methods (Non-Random Sampling)

  • Quota Sampling: Select participants based on predetermined quotas for
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Marketing Models: AIDA, Kapferer Prism, and More

Kapferer Brand Identity Prism

The Kapferer Brand Identity Prism is a model that helps define a brand’s identity through six key facets:

  1. Physique: The physical characteristics and iconography of your brand. Examples include the Nike swoosh, Apple’s sleek styling, or easyJet’s bold orange color. The physique is the visual representation of your brand’s aspirations and desired perception. Consider the look, feel, and emotions inspired by your products or services.
  2. Personality: How a brand communicates,
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Community Action Research: Data Collection Strategies

The operationalization of the hypotheses is what will allow us to decide what will be the combined observation instruments (technical research) more appropriate to argue the specific forms of implementation and take decisions delimiting social units to observe, etc. However, there is something unique in the choice of techniques in this type of research since the aim of the research is, in our case, inseparable from the very purposes of the Community action in which it integrates as well as producing

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