The relationship between a market and a consumer is complex. Far from simply an exchange of services there is an often complex transaction of feeling, meaning and experience. How does the study of relationship marketing interpret this?
In this exciting new book the authors explore the factors of relationship marketing in its contemporary context, with the consumer in mind. From the experience of a football club supporter to experiences of gap year travel, to text messaging behaviour, and to using the library, the focus of this text is on the consumer perspective. From this angle, issues of relationship marketing, and its management, take on a new and exciting bearing.
Topics examined include: frameworks for analyzing the consumer experience; consumer communities; issues of customer loyalty; the impact of ICT on relationship marketing; and the creative consumer. Each chapter is supported by – or based on – an in-depth case study, many of which are drawn from the authors′ research.
Table of Content
PART ONE: RELATIONSHIP MARKETING: THE STATE OF THE ART
Origins and History of Relationship Marketing
Relationship Marketing Themes
Customer Retention and Loyalty
Relationship Marketing
A Change in Perspective?
PART TWO: RELATIONSHIPS FROM A CONSUMER EXPERIENCE PERSPECTIVE
Frameworks for Analyzing the Consumer Experience
Consumer Resources
Use and Integration
Introducing Consumer Experience Modeling
Consumer Experience Modeling
Value Enhancers and Inhibitors
Communities within ′Experiential Networks′
Social Networks
C2C Exchanges and Relationships
CONCLUSION
Conclusions
About the author
Gary Warnaby is a senior lecturer in marketing at the University of Liverpool Management School in the UK. Drawing on a variety of academic disciplines, including social and cultural geography, architecture, sociology and public administration – as well as more traditional management sub-disciplines – his research interests include the marketing of places (in particular the marketing of towns and cities as retail destinations, the marketing and management of the urban experience, and the representation of places in marketing communications activities), town-centre management, and retailing more generally. Results of this research have been published in academic journals including Environment and Planning A, Journal of Marketing Management, European Journal of Marketing, Cities, Local Economy, Area, Marketing Theory and the International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research, as well as a variety of professional and trade publications. He as a co-author of the recently-published Relationship Marketing: A Consumer Experience Perspective
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