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The Ritz-Carlton

to impact on the mass market providers rather than the upper market providers where demand is not as sensitive to economic conditi...

Social Influences on Marketing; Winning and Retaining Customer Loyalty

a competitive advantage (Thompson, 2007). The issue faced by many companies in marketing terms is not only the way to comp...

If Marketing Aims To Meet Customer Expectations Why Are Consumer Rights Such An Issue Today?

2003). There are many definition of corporate social responsibility, Kotler and Lee define it as "a commitment to improve communit...

Key Customer Account Programs - Challenges for Implementation and Maintenance

et al., 2008). It may be argued that one of IBMs problems and to the changes being in the beginning of the 21st century the frag...

4 Articles on Purchase and Inventory Control Management Reviewed

or a cheaper alterative will do the same job. This is the way of controlling spending, but to management costs and spendin...

Customers' Supermarket Wants Characteristic Assessment

from it. 6 I like to shop for bargain and am attracted to special offers 7 Quality is more important than price. 8 I like to have...

Ritz Carlton Hotels and Guest Satisfaction Improved Through Customer Information Databases

staff member who hears or sees information that they believe will make the guest more comfortable (Berinato, 2002). The Ritz-Car...

L.L. Bean Memo to Customer Service, Poster, and Speech

be in contact with customers by telephone, Internet, email and "snail mail," with the most common forms of initial contact being b...

Balance Score-card Use in SMEs

for the customers that the new products need to be developed (Gumbus and Lussier, 2006). Other metrics were used, such as quality....

Service Issues in the PC Industry: Dell and Gateway Compared

the company is out of the water. Gateway realized it had a problem and got out and seemingly is doing better, but Dell continues t...

HRM Annotated Bibliography

have created a framework in which practitioners can "develop innovative instruments to measure the relationship among" human resou...

Creating Loyalty in Airline Customers

competitive advantage. Airlines have sought to do this in different ways, for example, Singapore Airlines used the smiling air ho...

Self Service Kiosks for Hotel Check-in and Check-out

A 5 page paper discussing the development and use of kiosks for use in hotel lobbies that customers can use to check in, select th...

Business Dynamics of ZDNet News

rely on ZDNet to deliver deep insight into IT planning, vendor consideration, and product selection" (ZDNet, 2006). To accomplish...

Consumer Behaviour and Marketing a Hotel

be looking for the best deal, the most service or facilities for the lowest price, where love is involved they may be looking for ...

Strategic Plan for Dell

computer users - and therefore buyers - insist that they will not purchase another Dell computer unless and until Dell provides so...

Strategic Communications at Starbucks

Starbucks mission statement is concise yet provides a "plumb line" against which to measure decisions. The statement reads, Estab...

Two Studies of Information Technology

gratification and for some purchases the inability to see and feel what they are. These different elements are seen as reassuring ...

Best E-Business Practices and Policies

information for the purpose of making a purchase. The best and most successful Internet businesses offer only high-quality produc...

Developing and Maintaining Customer Relationships Through Direct Marketing

Direct marketing must be fulfilling many goals as this s an area of rapid growth. This is one form of advertising that is easy to ...

Enhancing Customer Value

paper we will be applying the theory to a supposed service company that is a strategic business unit of a larger company. 3. Anal...

Dell Computer and a Change in Culture

success include: * Effective internal communication * Efficient business processes * Employee training * Employee motivation * Pos...

Customer Service

so forth and so forth. The cycle repeated every month until I finally gave up trying to correct it. However, as soon as the contra...

TECHNOLOGY, CUSTOMERS AND THE EXAMPLE OF VOLVO

to paying customers. If paying customers are put off by an employees attitude (due to his/her frustration), its a sure bet the cus...

McDonald's Pricing

of McDonalds and 20) Analyze the pricing strategies and tactics followed by McDonalds Formerly the undisputed leader in the...

Harris, Customer Service Management, and Making the Customer 'King'

The strategic plan feeds directly from the motto. The first step is to identify the needs of the customers. Initial input from pha...

Assessing Gaps in Service

method of evaluation identifies different measures where there may be a gap between the level of service expected and that gained....

Improving A Fast Food Retail Environment

table 1 Table 1retail environment comparison between Goodys and Everest Traffic Flow Crowdedness Accessibility Environment Overal...

Inside a Flocafe and Starbucks

often a queue, the queue moves along a counter where different food items are displayed, with sandwiches, cakes and other snack it...

The Use of Customer Relationship Management in High End Fashion

satisfy certain criteria laid down by the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture. Each year a list is drawn up by the commission wh...