Business Fundamentals: Customer Engagement (FutureLearn)

Business Fundamentals: Customer Engagement (FutureLearn)

Learn how to design your activities to engage customers through relationships instead of a one-off sale. When did you last do business with someone you didn’t trust? Or who broke a promise? Building a relationship with your customer involves time, communication and commitment, but the benefits are a sure way to help your business succeed and grow. This free online course introduces the principles of relationship marketing, revealing long-term relationships as the way to unlock value for marketers, customers and other stakeholders.

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Even if you have never considered marketing to be relevant to you personally, the ideas shared in this course will reveal how you can benefit from it – at work or elsewhere.

What topics will you cover?

  • How to gain the most relevant insights about customers and their needs
  • Designing the most appropriate products for your intended customers
  • Prioritising the customers who are most likely to be interested in your products
  • Identifying the most profitable applications of relationship marketing
  • Understanding the different ways you can get customers to be loyal and when to use them
  • Maximising the effectiveness of digital marketing for relationship building

What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

  • Discuss and apply the key principles of relationship marketing to your customers.
  • Improve your own performance in organisations of which you are a member.
  • Develop your analytical and prioritisation skills.
  • Assess and appreciate the ethical issues surrounding marketing relationships.
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