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Lesson 16/21 | Study Time: 15 Min

Summary

Summary
  • Marketing practices have evolved over the last few decades. Starting with product centric approachsegment centric and then customer centric approach in the early 1990s. 
  • The focus on customer centricity is to create a positive experience for  a customer at every stage of her journey. 
  • Market share is a firms sales in volume or value divided by industry sales in volume or value. 
  • A market share orientation is represented on the two dimensions of needs satisfied and customers reached. 
  • In customer share orientation, firms try to meet all related  needs of  their customers, even if they have to make new offerings.
  • Lifetime value is the net profit of an individual customer over his lifetime. 
  • Activity based costing is used to assess the actual cost of serving a customer.