Using a customer-Level marketing strategy to enhance firm performance: A review of theoretical and empirical evidence

It is becoming increasingly apparent from the literature that marketers need to consider customer-level information when they generate a marketing strategy for the firm. In this article, the authors develop a customer-focused framework that uses a marketing strategy with an overall objective of maximized financial performance. This strategy is driven by seven customer-level marketing tactics and shows how actual customer data can be used to generate an actionable marketing strategy leading to optimal levels of profitability, customer equity, and shareholder value. In addition, the authors discuss a successful implementation of this strategy for several business-to-business and business-to-consumer firms and offer insights as to how to customize an implementation strategy for any firm, along with presenting potential challenges a firm may encounter during the implementation process. Several suggestions for future research are offered to explore and harness this newly available evidence. V. Kumar (VK) (vk@business.uconn.edu) is the ING Chair Professor of Marketing and the executive director of the ING Center for Financial Services at the University of Connecticut. He spends his time by transferring his knowledge (however little it may be) to his two daughters about customer lifetime value, diffusion models, forecasting sales and market share, retailing, and marketing strategy. J. Andrew Petersen (apetersen@business.uconn.edu) is a doctoral candidate in marketing at the University of Connecticut. His research interests include customer lifetime value, word-of-mouth effects, and customer-level marketing strategy. His research has been published inMarketing Research Magazine and theJournal of the Academy of Marketing Science.     

顾客关系营销组合研究

通过对企业如何进行关系营销组合设计的深入分析，提出了以顾客为导向的关系营销组合设计的思路和方法。进一步揭示了以顾客导向为基础、以竞争导向为补充，不断进行关系营销组合创新是企业获得可持续竞争优势的必要条件。     

整合营销传播学的行销主张与马克思主义经济理论观点的相关联系

整合营销传播学是一门源于美国的新兴的营销学传播理论。它所主张的“一切以消费者为中心”展开营销传播的思想理念,改变了传统营销理论中“以生产和销售为中心”的企业营销策略,顺应了知识经济时代的市场发展趋势,并与马克思主义经济理论观点具有某些相关性联系。本文就此提出探讨,同时结合我国市场经济转轨中企业经营观念的相关问题进行了思考。     

论差异化营销策略在我国商业银行经营管理中的应用

目前，国内外金融市场同业竞争日趋激烈。我国的商业银行应当改变市场营销模式，把差异化营销策略提上议事日程进而发挥作用，以求在严峻的市场环境中立足并发展壮大。     

顾客满意策略与顾客满意营销

在情感消费时代，企业不再以质量达标、自己满意为经营理念，而是以顾客满意、赢得顾客高度忠诚为经营理念。企业营销策略不再以争取或保持市场占有率为主，而是以保持顾客份额和顾客忠诚为主。而顾客满意策略正是企业获取顾客“货币选票”的制胜法宝。以顾客至上为理念，让顾客参与产品设计、提供全程高附加值的服务、个性服务、培育顾客忠诚，是CS时代顾客满意营销的主要策略。     

网络营销满足了消费者的个性化需求

消费需求发展史是一个周而复始的轮回过程。人类生产力水平、科技水平、化环境发展到今天，人们的消费需求已完全个性化。企业应充分利用Internet的发展优势，进行网络营销，这是个性化满足的新方向。     

英语习得途径探索——英语专业“市场营销学”课程案例研究

通过用国外英语教材为英语专业本科生开设市场营销学课程,探索了相关专业知识课程教学及其与英语教学相结合的实际问题。在教学实践基础上进行的研究表明:英语专业的学生用英语教材学习市场营销学,从内容上易于接受,并增加了习得英语的机会,有利于英语综合能力的提高。大学二年级的学生学习该课程时,主要难点是语言问题。国外原版教材有优点,但也不完全适用,应组织力量编写适合我国英语专业学生使用的教材。     

The differing roles of success drivers across sequential channels: An application to the motion picture industry

In several product categories, it is typical to release products sequentially to different markets and customer segments. Conventional knowledge holds that the roles of various product success drivers do not differ significantly across these sequential channels of distribution. The authors examine sequential distribution channels within the motion picture industry and develop a model that proposes that such differences exist between a primary (short- and long-term theatrical box office) and a sequential (video rental) channel. The authors test their model with a sample of 331 motion pictures released in theaters and on video during 1999–2001 using partial least squares. Results reveal differences in the impact of success factors across channels. For example, cultural familiarity enhances box office success but relates negatively to video rental success, and distribution intensity and date of release enhance box office outcomes but have no impact on rental revenues. Thorsten Hennig-Thurau (tht@medien.uni-weimar.cie) is a professor of marketing and media research at Bauhaus-University of Weimar’s Media School and Honorary Visiting Professor of Movie Marketing in the Faculty of Management of Cass Business School, City University London. He has published articles in theJournal of Marketing, theJournal of Service Research, theInternational Journal of Electronic Commerce, theJournal of Interactive Marketing, Psychology & Marketing, and theJournal of Consumer Affairs, among others. He is author of the monograph Relationship Marketing, which has been translated into Chinese. He is member of the editorial board of three journals and serves as reviewer for theJournal of Marketing andMarketing Science. He has won eight Best Article and Best Paper Awards, including the Overall Best Paper Award of the 2005 American Marketing Association Summer Educators’ Conference and the 2002JSR Excellence in Service Research Award. Mark B. Houston (houstonmb@missouri.edu) (PhD, Arizona State University) is the David and Judy O’Neal MBA Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia. His research on strategy, interfirm relationships, and innovation has been published in leading journals, including theJournal of Marketing, theJournal of Marketing Research, theJournal of Consumer Research, Marketing Science, theJournal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and theJournal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. He cochaired the 2005 American Marketing Association (AMA) Summer Educators’ Conference and served for two terms as vice president of the AMA’s Technology and Marketing Special Interest Group. Gianfranco Walsh (g.walsh@strath.ac.uk) received his MPhil degree from UMIST (England) and PhD (2001) and Habilitation (2004) degrees from Hanover (Germany). His research focuses on consumer behavior, corporate reputation, and e-commerce. He has presented numerous papers at international conferences. His work has been published in, among others, theAcademy of Marketing Science Review, the International Journal of Electronic Commerce, theJournal of Consumer Affairs, theJournal of Interactive Marketing, theJournal of Macromarketing, and theJournal of Marketing Management. He is the Chair of Marketing and Electronic Retailing at the Institute for Management, University of Koblenz-Landau.     

对企业集群整合营销的几点思考

由企业集群构成的区位空间不仅仅是一个区域概念,也是一个巨大的“产品”。像产品和人一样,地理位置或某一空间区域也可以视为产品。在新技术和全球经济一体化的推动下,人类在空间的不断流动、交通和信息的发达以及经济的全球化,促使区位市场营销趋势的增长。我国企业集群劳动密集型的特点,决定了在高新技术方面取得重大突破的难度。从整合营销的角度来提升企业集群的能力,却是发展企业集群的一条具有现实而长远意义的捷径。