Customer Relationships, Digital and Competitive Marketing
Customer acquisition and retention, service quality, digital channels, data use, competition and adapting marketing in dynamic consumer and business markets.
How to study A-level Business
Start with the objective and context, build a causal chain across functions, use the numerical and qualitative evidence, then reach a balanced, feasible judgement.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Customer value and loyalty depend on the whole experience, not promotion alone.
Exam cue: Connect a customer metric to behaviour, revenue or cost before judging performance.
Concept 2
Digital channels enable targeting, measurement, interaction and new distribution models while creating privacy, reputation and platform risks.
Exam cue: Evaluate data use using accuracy, consent, bias and strategic relevance.
Concept 3
Competitive marketing choices depend on differentiation, cost position, market power, customer switching and rival response.
Exam cue: Predict a competitor response and its effect on the original decision.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Assuming more followers or clicks necessarily mean profitable customers.
Guardrail: Do not give a generic advantage or recommendation without explaining why it matters for this organisation, stakeholder and time horizon.
Treating customer satisfaction and loyalty as identical.
Guardrail: Do not give a generic advantage or recommendation without explaining why it matters for this organisation, stakeholder and time horizon.
Recommending a price war without considering margin and retaliation.
Guardrail: Do not give a generic advantage or recommendation without explaining why it matters for this organisation, stakeholder and time horizon.
Memory anchors
Customer Acquisition
Customer acquisition is the process and cost of gaining a new customer.
Customer Retention
Retention measures the ability to keep customers over a period.
Customer Experience
Customer experience is the combined perception formed across interactions with the business.
Digital Channel
A digital channel enables communication, transaction or service through connected technology.
Competitive Advantage
A competitive advantage is a valuable capability or position rivals cannot easily match.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
What is customer relationship management primarily intended to do?
A subscription firm loses 120 of 2,000 customers during a month. What monthly churn rate is this?
Answer all questions to submit.
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