Title
eCRM Marketing Intelligence in a Manufacturing Environment
Department
Marketing & Professional Sales
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2009
Abstract
This chapter examines the issue of electronic customer relationship management (eCRM) in a manufacturing context. ECRM has been described as the fusion of a process, a strategy, and technology to blend sales, marketing, and service information to identify, attract, and build partnerships with customers (Bettis-Outland & Johnston, 2003; Jaworski & Jocz, 2002). Although some customers still pay a premium for face-to-face or voice-to-voice interaction in today’s hightech world, through external (e.g., advertising) and internal (e.g., word-of-mouth) influence, the diffusion of the use of eCRM to build and sustain customer loyalty as a firm’s strategy is on the rise. Manufacturers use the knowledge of their customers’ needs and preferences to manage profitable customer interactions. This increased use of eCRM as a new manifestation (technological consolidation) of firmly established customer relationship management techniques has been shown to improve customer relationships and enhance customization
Recommended Citation
Border, Aberdeen Leila, Wesley J. Johnston, Brett W. Young, and Johnathan Yehuda Morpurgo. "eCRM Marketing Intelligence in a Manufacturing Environment" (2009). In: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 2nd Ed., Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (Ed.), pp. 1244-1250. Hershey, PN: IGI Global.