Analyzing and comparing transactional and relationship marketing

Apr 2017 · GRIN Verlag

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Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, , language: English, abstract: In today’s modern business environment, the development of close and long-term relationships is a strategy which aims at creating competitive advantage and the successful revival of businesses. The scientific field of marketing has created “relationship marketing” which deals with the study of these relationships. The present essay focuses on analyzing and comparing transactional and relationship marketing. It presents the IMP Group interaction approach which is considered as one of the most prevalent approaches of relationship marketing. The IMP Group approach is analyzed and more specifically its implementation in the purchasing process is studied. IBM is the company that is taken as an implementation example of the IMP Group approach. In IBM’s case study relationship marketing and IMP Group approach are successfully implemented and are in full accordance with the relevant theory.

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Born in Athens, Greece, I studied economics, agricultural policy analysis, marketing and communication with new technologies and human resources management (BSc, MSc, DProf). I am an author of more than 40 books specialized in economics, accountancy and management. I have been an MBA lecturer for 19 years and I have taught more than 800 students and seminar attendants. I have worked as a Manager at Microsoft and other IT and Telcom companies. I am a registered consultant on entrepreneurship and innovation of European Union for small and medium enterprises and certified by Chartered Institute of Marketing. An active blogger, I write about economics at mastroyanni.blogspot.com. My articles have been published at numerous magazines, newspapers and blogs. About me and my books you may read at my blog: http://mastroyanni.blogspot.gr/

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