Internal marketing - benefits of an organisation marketing internally to its employees

Definition

markeing conducted within an organisation to encourage stadd's identification with the brand & improve customers oriented behaviour in respresenting & communicating brand externally to customers

Benifts

Helps to promote coherent brand identity

Provides a focus for staff's diverse organisational roles & activities

Supports relationship building with customers

enables staff to feed back info to organisation & contribute ideas to improve customer-orientation

moment of truth

customers perceive & evaluate quality of service provided during interaction with organisation

Face-to-face interactions

Technology-enabled services

Types of unfair customer

Verbal abusers

Blamers

Rule breakers

Rule makers

Opportunists

Returnaholics

Ways to deal with unfair customers

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Types of employees

Brand chapions

Brand agnostics

Brand cynics

Brand saboteurs