Relationship marketing in the low income segment: an exploratory study in the electronic goods retail. / Marketing de relacionamento para o público de baixa renda: um estudo exploratório no varejo de eletrodomésticos

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2008

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The main objective of this study is to identify whether relationship marketing is used as tool to manage the low-income segments among the electronic retail industry. The secondary objective is to investigate the parameter of relationship actions in this industry: how the clients are segmented; the activation of those segments throughout direct actions; the database role; and relationship actions management. This study begins with the presentation of the theme and research problem; indicates the academic relevance and the challenges for understanding the low-income population consumption; presents the importance of electronic goods retail market for this study and points the role of relationship marketing (RM) as a differentiation tool; it also presents the challenge to implement CRM programs to approach this target. The next chapter talks about the concepts of marketing channels, retail, marketing channel structure, channel leadership, electronic goods retail in Brazil and the power provided by the relationship with the clients. In the next chapter there is a literature review about RM which describes the context evolution that enabled the birth of RM, it also shows concepts of RM and CRM, implementation models and definitions such as client value, segmentation, satisfaction and loyalty. The third chapter tells about the low-income market, low-income concepts in the demography and research literatures, comments about the research made in this field in Brazil, presents marketing approaches to target this segment and concludes with the problems to implement RM to deal with low-income consumers. The fourth chapter tells about the research method used in field investigation. Fifth chapter presents the research findings. The final considerations section points the barriers and gaps to implement RM to approach this target and indicates that among the companies researched RM still in its basic stage due to difficulty in establishing micro segmentation, spare contacts with the consumer, low customized approaches in the segments activation and in the feedback channels.

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marketing de relacionamento relationship marketing varejo case study low income retail baixa renda estudo de caso

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