In present apparel business system, the appearance of various brands and stores makes apparel market more full and crowd. Under an age of this keen competition, To take differential competitive advantage in market, store managers should maintain cer...
In present apparel business system, the appearance of various brands and stores makes apparel market more full and crowd. Under an age of this keen competition, To take differential competitive advantage in market, store managers should maintain certain amount of their own customers with brand loyalty. This marketing strategy of managers represents that just maintaining customers provides both efficiency and strong competition to them. Attracting new consumers, on the other hand means that they need to invest continuous ,even excessive care and cost for new consumers. In this point, we can not miss important fact : i.e. we should construct continuous and effective relationship with consumers in pursuit of this purpose.
In the Relationship Orientation Marketing induced from above case, it is emphasized the significance of Personal Selling activity performed through contacting and interacting with consumer in face-to-face manner.
The purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of attributes of salespersons working at apparel store on relationship with consumers, to gather information what kind of attributes of salespersons get preference to consumer and to conclude a certain relationship in the result coming from both attributes of salespersons and degree of relationship quality. besides through this examination, I can also find effect of degree of relationship quality on performance factor .
To pursue the above purposes, I designed the experiment model showing the working process like : analyzing attributes of salespersons ð checking the degree of relationship quality ð getting performance. then I chose questionnaire method to accomplish the positive study and targeted apparel stores in department stores, fashion arcades and agencies as population at random in sampling 20∼30' men and women living around Seoul and Kyong-gi province areas. Among the 750 Questionnaires conducted during july in 2001, 628 questionnaires were returned and 571 of them were used in last analysis. Finally, the results from above positive study are as follows.
First, in the case of apparel product, construction and long-term maintenance of relationship with consumers are very essential to gain profit in the future. Even in a few years ago, it was commonly said that market managers regard only industrial goods, financial products or service products as critical constituents of company. Now, however, they begin to recognize that apparel product has exclusiveness like high risk-awareness and high-relationship and also need to be thought significant factor to maximize their profit.
Second, attributes of salespersons seem to play an important role on constructing and maintaining long-term relationship with consumers. In this vein, This study shows concern about not only limited attributes of salespersons examined before by others but also effect on relationship between attributes of salespersons and construction of relationship with consumers and long-term maintenance of it through positive examination.
Third, external attributes like outward appearance do not affect to degree of relationship quality with consumer. rather, internal attributes - expertise, similarity, customer orientation, ethics and likeability, influence on the degree of relationship quality. The more consumers notice that is true, the deeper the degree of relationship quality goes.
Fourth, the reason why construction and long-term maintenance of relationship with consumers should be the core of marketing activity is that they show possibility customers with brand loyalty do straight rebuy under the crowded and competitive market condition for long time in which consumers switch brand and product to others voluntarily. This fact leads to expedite cash flow and to sustain the profit coming from continuous straight rebuy of the customer with brand loyalty in depression period.
Therefore, store managers or executives of company must look for the way to decrease customer's want for brand switching on firm ground of the relationship marketing concept.