Overview
When did you last do business with someone you didn’t trust? Or who broke a promise? Building a relationship with your customer involves time, communication and commitment, but the benefits are a sure way to help your business succeed and grow.
This Business Fundamentals - Customer Engagement course from The Open University by FutureLearn introduces the principles of relationship marketing, revealing long-term relationships as the way to unlock value for marketers, customers and other stakeholders.
Even if you have never considered marketing to be relevant to you personally, the ideas shared in this course will reveal how you can benefit from it – at work or elsewhere.
By the end of the course, you'll be able to:
- Discuss and apply the key principles of relationship marketing to your customers
- Improve your own performance in organisations of which you are a member
- Develop your analytical and prioritisation skills
- Assess and appreciate the ethical issues surrounding marketing relationships
Accreditation
This course is accredited by EOCCS, the first international quality benchmark for online courses in business and management education.
Programme Structure
What topics will you cover?How to gain the most relevant insights about customers and their needs
Designing the most appropriate products for your intended customers
Prioritising the customers who are most likely to be interested in your products
Identifying the most profitable applications of relationship marketing
Understanding the different ways you can get customers to be loyal and when to use them
Maximising the effectiveness of digital marketing for relationship building
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 1 months
Start dates & application deadlines
Language
Delivered
- Self-paced
- No Attendance
- Proactive tutoring and support
- Individual work/assignments (with online group discussions)
Disciplines
Business Administration Marketing International Business View 127 other Short Courses in Business Administration in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- This course is intended for anyone looking to develop and strengthen relationships with their customers or other stakeholders and does not require any previous experience of studying relationship marketing.