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Understanding Customers - Profiling And Segmentation

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  • Mircea Andrei SCRIDON

    (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

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In any industry, the first step to finding and creating profitable customers is determining what drives profitability. This leads to better prospecting and more successful customer relationship management. Any company can segment and profile their customer base to uncover those profit drivers using the knowledge of their customers, products, and markets. Or they can use data-driven techniques to find natural clusters in their customer or prospect base. Whatever the method, the process will lead to kn

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  • Mircea Andrei SCRIDON, 2008. "Understanding Customers - Profiling And Segmentation," Management and Marketing Journal, University of Craiova, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, vol. 6(1), pages 175-184, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:aio:manmar:v:6:y:2008:i:1:p:175-184
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    Keywords

    profiling; segmentation; penetration analysis; cluster analysis;
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    • M30 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Marketing and Advertising - - - General

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