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CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MARKETING AS AN E - MARKETING STRATEGIC IMPERATIVE FOR THE COMPANIES

MARINA ALAVANTIA
KAROLINA ILIESKA

 

Abstract

Nowadays, in the e-business environment, companies are shifting their business strategies from product-oriented to customer-oriented. As a strategy to optimize lifetime-value of customers, customer relationship marketing - CRM can help companies to succeed in the world of e-business. Not only large, multi-national companies, but also SMEs are increasingly seeking to implement CRM in order to find a competitive advantage on which to base their business’ prospects for longevity. The most significant opportunity SMEs get from the e-marketing is to outperform large competitors regardless of relatively smaller capacity of human and financial resource.The e-marketing and technological innovations are providing SMEs with new opportunities to develop customer’s loyality as a factor for their competitiveness. The paper will identifies the influence of the e-marketing strategies on the different types of customer’s loyalty. The primary objective of this paper is examining the effects of the strategies of e-marketing on the: preference loyalty; complaining behavior and price tolerance.

 

Keywords

e - marketing, strategy, CRM

 

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