In this paper, we examine the effect of relationship perceptions and relationship marketing instruments on customer share development. We also study the interaction effect of these instruments with behavioral loyalty and relationship perceptions. This study is executed among a sample of...

In customer relationship management, practitioners are often faced with the task of valuing customers in terms of inter-purchase times and purchase quantities. Some customers represent steady revenue streams, while others exhibit a great deal of variation in their interaction with a firm through...

This paper contains a survey of the recent literature on the evaluation of direct marketing campaigns. We give an outline of the various stages included in such a campaign. Next, we review the statistical methods most frequently used and we review the general findings from using these methods.

One of the aims of direct marketing in practice is to target the most profitable customers in the database at hand. This selection is often done based on observed behavior in the past. As a consequence, databases arising from the responses to direct mailings are not a random sample from all...