金牌推销法则：喜欢你的顾客

做过推销工作的人都会有这样的体验,即在多数情况下,不论你推销什么商品,也不论你推销商品的商誉如何、质量如何、价格如何,甚至使用效果如何,你的顾客似乎总处在一种消极和戒备的状态。即便是他们中的一些人有心想买,     

人员推销的特点与技巧研究

人员推销作为一种最古老的推销方式,在公司的营销策略中发挥着重要的作用。但随着历史的演变,特别是市场经济的不断深入以及信息时代的来临,人员推销面临着诸多挑战。怎样灵活运用推销技巧达成商品交易以及与顾客建立长期关系是推销人员值得深思的问题,本文拟立足于人员推销的特点,探究在面对顾客开展推销活动时所需的技巧,并提出相关建议。     

“顾客满意—顾客遗憾”矩阵与“顾客重购倾向”管理

影响“顾客重购倾向”的两种基本因素是顾客满意和顾客遗憾,二者对“顾客重购倾向”的作用机理是完全不同的。可用顾客满意和顾客遗憾这两个顾客心理变量构建一个影响“顾客重购倾向”的“顾客满意———顾客遗憾”矩阵,通过该矩阵企业可以把自己的产品在其中进行对号入座,以便发现企业产品存在的问题,并采取针对性的营销策略来有效控制和影响“顾客重购倾向”。     

酒店顾客忠诚感的实证研究

LISREL软件的分析结果显示：顾客忠诚感包括一个感情成分和一个行为成分,感情成分决定行为成分。本次研究的结果表明：酒店应尽力满足顾客的需要,以便赢得顾客的忠诚感。     

基于顾客忠诚提升视角顾客合作创造与顾客导向比较研究

顾客忠诚重要性已被学者和企业管理者广泛接受,对于如何提升和维持顾客忠诚,以往的研究主要以顾客导向经营模式进行探讨,基于企业与顾客合作创造这一全新视角来研究顾客忠诚提升在中国尚属空白。这篇文章拟研究在顾客与企业角色变化环境下,传统模式企业与顾客合作创造在顾客忠诚营造方面实施的可行性比较,拟对企业战略发展做出指引。     

商业银行顾客满意度实证研究

随着竞争的加剧、金融管制的放松和信息技术的发展,提升顾客满意度水平,争夺客户资源已成为银行提升市场竞争力的重要手段。在这种形势下,把提高顾客满意度作为商业银行经营管理的目标是大势所趋。本文通过实证的方式介绍了顾客满意度研究在商业银行经营管理中的运用意义和方法,并对其运用进行了具体说明。     

公共服务顾客满意度和顾客忠诚度关系实证研究

顾客满意和顾客忠诚是企业提高经营绩效,扩大市场占有率的两个重要支撑点,关于它们之间关系的研究是当今顾客满意研究的热点问题。本文以大学学生食堂满意度和忠诚度的调查数据为基础,分析了人口统计变量对顾客满意度和顾客忠诚度的影响以及顾客满意度与顾客忠诚度二者之间的关系。研究表明,公共服务企业顾客满意度和顾客忠诚度之间的关系为正向线性关系以期对今后的研究有所助益。     

成功推销的秘诀：不给顾客说“不”的机会

<正>推销工作的主要手段是说服,推销员要在不断变化和竞争激烈的市场上,说服那些消费需求千差万别的顾客购买同一件商品,有极大的挑战性和困难。顾客对推销员说"不"时时贯穿推销的整个过程:不让你进门——不让你说话——不相信你的产品——不掏钱购买……可以说,如何不让顾客说"不",就等于取得了推销的成功。     

汽车服务业服务质量、顾客满意度与顾客忠诚度的实证分析

为了探讨汽车服务行业服务质量、顾客满意度与顾客认知、情感、意向、行为等四类忠诚度之间的关系,我们对广东省7家汽车4S店进行实证调查,结果发现:服务质量对顾客的认知、情感和意向忠诚度有直接的影响;顾客满意度对顾客四类忠诚度都有直接的影响,且顾客满意度对态度忠诚的影响大于其对行为忠诚的影响;在顾客四类忠诚度中,对顾客行为忠诚有直接影响的是认知忠诚和意向忠诚,其中意向忠诚的影响程度较大。     

我国零售业的顾客角色外行为实证研究

顾客角色外行为是以组织行为学中员工角色外行为为基础,是顾客行为研究中一个新的热点话题,是提高顾客满意度和忠诚度,保持顾客稳定性和企业利润的一个重要因素。本文在前人理论研究的基础上,对顾客角色外行为的定义及其影响因素进行研究,结合定性和定量的研究方法分析影响顾客角色外行为的六个因素：企业品牌因素、产品因素、顾客个人因素、企业员工因素、服务体系因素、顾客关怀因素。在此基础上,对山东省烟台市相关零售企业在这些因素上的表现,给出提高顾客角色外行为的意见和建议。     

An empirical study on Chinese adolescents' fashion involvement

Chinese adolescents are growing up with China's rapid economic growth and they represent the up and coming group of China's fashionistas. The aim of this study is to assess the effectiveness of consumer socialization on Chinese adolescents' fashion involvement. Using the data collected from 169 Chinese adolescents, the research provides empirical results about the impacts of different consumer socialization agents on Chinese adolescents' fashion involvement. The study results reveal the positive and significant impacts of fashion magazines, fashion websites and peers on Chinese adolescents' fashion involvement, but a negative and significant impact of Internet on adolescents' fashion involvement. In addition, parents and TV were found to have no significant impact on Chinese adolescents' fashion involvement. Such empirical research not only deepens our understanding of the nature and strength of the relationships between the consumer socialization agents and Chinese adolescents' fashion consumer behaviour, but also makes a meaningful contribution to improving the consumer socialization framework. We believe these findings will be useful to update current consumer socialization frameworks and make it more relevant and useful for studying the new generation of consumers in the emerging market context.     

奥运赞助商北京奥运会赞助营销效果实证研究

2008年北京奥运会带动了体育赞助营销在中国的迅速发展。奥运赞助对企业来说，是巨大的投入。奥运赞助的效果究竟如何，在现有的营销研究中鲜有涉及。本文介绍了笔者和益普索（Ipsos）公司的研究人员共同进行的企业奥运赞助营销实证研究。通过调查数据的采集和分析，我们发现，消费者并不能有效区分奥运赞助商和非奥运赞助商，但是奥运赞助有助于提高企业及其品牌的形象，增强消费者对其产品和服务的购买意愿。     

The Effect of Single and Dual Sales Targets on Sales Call Selection: Quota versus Quota and Bonus Plan

Ross (1991) demonstrated that a salesperson's quota acts as a reference point (target or goal) and influences sales call selection. Ross, however, focused only on the effect of a single reference point. The use of multiple goals is quite common in the sales environment, for example in the quota plus bonus compensation structure and in the use of incentive plans. Our study compares and contrasts call selection when a single goal (quota) is given versus when dual targets are assigned (a quota plus bonus level). Consistent with our hypotheses, we find that call selection patterns are influenced by the number of targets assigned to the salesperson.     

Systems-thinking social marketing: conceptual extensions and empirical investigations

ABSTRACT

Systems thinking dominated the 2015 World Social Marketing conference with the premise that a more holistic approach takes into account all the issues at play for effective change. Augmenting the broadening social marketing literature, we contend that systems-thinking social marketing enhances the field’s conventional behavioural change with concepts of scale, causation, and iterative co-creating change processes for complex health and environmental problems. The results of our empirical Sea for Society study, a sustainable European marine ecosystem examination of what the barriers to change are and how they are interrelated, find systems-thinking social marketing offers the potential to strategically and critically reinforce, not replace, behavioural change campaigns. With systems-thinking social marketing, a coherent theory of change becomes a possibility. Orchestrating social change may become a reality.     

Processing fluency: examining its relationship with thinking style and purchase intention

This study aims to examine the relationship between processing fluency and thinking style. In addition to that, the impact of processing fluency on purchase intention will be investigated. Specifically, it is proposed that experiential thinking style induces more fluent processing than rational thinking style. Getting the audience to attend to the ad in an intuitive manner rather than a rule-based manner and presenting them with affective stimuli rather than analytical stimuli increases the fluency experiences. Moreover, it is expected that the processing fluency that is experienced by consumers will influence their purchasing intent. It is suggested that consumer’s level of confidence in their choices mediates the relationship between processing fluency and purchase intent.     

Impact of Sales Call Adaptiveness and Customer Willingness on Sales Call Length: A Cross-Country Study of India,China, Korea,and Philippines

ABSTRACT

In this empirical study across four countries (India, China, Korea, and Philippines), we examine the impact of sales call adaptiveness and customer willingness on sales call length (duration) of salespersons in these four countries. Sales call length as well as sales call quality—although important constructs in sales—are still underresearched in the domain of sales management. Our study in these four emerging markets sheds new light on enhancing sales force effectiveness. Using survey data from 847 salespersons in four countries, we analyze using multivariate analysis, and our results suggest that sales force effectiveness can be enhanced by giving them the autonomy to decide the sales call length based on the prospect quality. We also demonstrate that salespeople indulging in sales-oriented behaviors may be detrimental to the long-term relationship with customers. Emphasis on relational sales approaches would reduce sales practices such as pitching products or services to unwilling customers. Our study also highlights the interactive role of customer willingness and sales adaptiveness. We found several inter-country differences across sales practices in four countries, which have several meaningful managerial implications.     

Impact of CRM technology on sales process behaviors: empirical results from US,Europe, and Asia

Purpose: The diffusion of customer relationship management (CRM) systems across the globe, over the last decade, has created a need to improve the understanding of the impact of technology on the sales process from a global perspective. The authors examine how CRM technology impacts the sales process (creating opportunity, managing opportunity, and managing relationships) in three regions of the world (US, Europe, and Asia).

Methodology/Approach: The differences among US respondents (n = 789), European respondents (n = 327), and Asian respondents (n = 91) were explored. A multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was conducted on creating opportunity, managing opportunity, and managing relationships, with dichotomized CRM effectiveness and geography (US/Europe/Asia) as factors.

Findings: The MANOVA revealed a significant influence of CRM effectiveness, but a non-significance for geography and a non-significance for the interaction between CRM effectiveness and geography. This pattern of results suggests that CRM effectiveness leads to significant differences in sales processes; however, these influences are not qualified by the geography to which the firm belongs. Ensuing univariate Analysis of Varirances (ANOVAs) revealed a significant influence of CRM effectiveness on creating opportunity, managing opportunity, and managing relationships, but not for firm–geography or its interaction with CRM effectiveness. Post hoc tests revealed that firms high on CRM effectiveness were better at creating opportunity, managing opportunity, and managing relationships. Differences in CRM effectiveness lead to significant differences in sales processes; however, these influences once again are not qualified by the geography to which the firms belong.

Originality/Value Contribution: This study provides several contributions to the stream of research focused on CRM globally. First, due to globalization, CRM use and process can be more standardized across regions and cultures. With the evolution of technology such as Web 2.0 and cloud computing, barriers to communicating and exchanging information, regardless of time zone or location, have been decreased. A US firm’s use of a CRM platform can essentially capture the same information on a client that a firm in Europe or Asia also manages. CRM’s ultimate measure of success is for the buyer–seller relationship process to positively impact the level of business conducted.     

The impact of consumer decision‐making styles on consumer confusion in Mauritius: An empirical analysis

This article investigates the effects of consumer decision‐making styles on consumer confusion and harm. While consumer confusion has been well documented in the literature, this investigation attempts to bridge our understanding on its relationship with consumer decision‐making styles. Empirical data was collected from a field survey where 400 consumers selected at 20 supermarkets in Mauritius were asked to respond to a questionnaire measuring three variables under study: consumer confusion, consumer decision‐making styles, and situational factors. Findings from the MANOVA parametric test showed that there is a significant difference between consumer decision‐making styles and consumer confusion. Even when covariate situational factors were controlled through the parametric test MANCOVA, results still showed a significant difference between consumer decision‐making styles and consumer confusion. More specifically, ANCOVA tests showed that the findings were specifically significant for three types of confusion: product confusion, packaging confusion, and product complexity. The study tends to confirm that a consumer's style of decision making does impact on consumer confusion.     

An empirical study of the impact of consumer emotional engagement and affective commitment in firm-hosted virtual communities

ABSTRACT

Emergent perspectives in marketing highlight new opportunities for leveraging social media as a means to build customer–firm relationships through consumer engagement. Drawing from cognitive appraisal theory and aspects of the service dominant logic, this study delineates and empirically tests hypotheses regarding the effects of key components of consumer engagement (cognitive appraisal, affective states, participation) on consumers’ affective commitment, in the context of two service companies where the firms used social media to host virtual communities. The research examines how consumers’ cognitive appraisal of the engagement experience aligned with their online interaction propensity and participation in value-creating activities drive engagement outcomes. The results confirm the need to contextualise, personalise and respond to the consumer’s engagement experience to develop this engagement.