A multitude of companies today has already identified the need to create a loyal customer base and acknowledged that maintain ing existing customers and extending business with them are significantly less expensive than acquiring new customers (e.g.[17]). Therefore this paper describes the development of a conceptual model to investigate several factors affecting customer loyalty towards the se...

This research paper‟s is to illustrate the relationship between the customer loyalty derived through the satisfaction and enlargement of profitability of firm. The loyalty can be increased through the various services and strategies adopted by the firm for proper satisfaction of their customers. Many authors are proposed to loyal customer as competitive assets to be preserved and one of the way...

Department of Management & Marketing King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia Abstract. Existing streams of literature are integrated to propose a conceptual framework that highlights the antecedents of relationship marketing on customer loyalty and its outcomes. The framework aims to provide insights into the underpinnings of relationship marketing. The proposed...

Operations in Banking: The service quality and effects on satisfaction and loyalty This paper studies the service quality provided by the banks. The objectives are: i) to identify which aspects of the transactions carried out by the banks are important for the service quality perceived by the customers, taking into account some aspects that are sometimes ignored (online channels); ii) to observ...

The fierce competition in E-commerce has forced the companies to focus on providing customer satisfaction and gain customer loyalty. Thus, measuring the parameters which drive customer satisfaction is very important for the long-term growth of the businesses. This research work makes an attempt to identify the factors which influence the loyalty and satisfaction of customers in organized E-comm...

Keyword: Customer gratitude Relationship marketing Retailing Loyalty programs Customer gratitude represents the emotional core of reciprocity and plays a key force in developing and maintaining successful seller–buyer relational exchanges. Based upon personal interviews with 239 members of loyalty card programs of a department chain store, this study shows that alternative relationship marketin...

While customer satisfaction and loyalty regarding most physical goods and services have been well explored in academic literature, there exists little research on these factors with respect to mobile telecommunications services. Nevertheless, standardized satisfaction measures are suggested to be useful for various telecom-industry stakeholders. However, such a global standard measure of satisf...

A R T I C L E I N F O Strategy, Marketing, Loyalty, Customer, Bajapuik Savings & BPR Gunung Pangilun. Received 20 April 2011 Received in revised form 23 April 2011 Accepted 24 April 2011 Available online 26 April 2011 This study attempts to look and see if the marketing strategy of product, price, and location and upon promotion will affect customer loyalty bajapuik savings on PT.BPR Berok Gunu...

BACKGROUND Understanding customers has become an urgent topic for increasing competitiveness. The purpopse of the study was to develop a qualitative dynamic attribute value model which provides insight into the customers' value for healthcare institute managers by conducting the initial open-ended questionnaire survey to select participants purposefully. METHODS A total number of 427 question...