TY - BOOK AU - Kumar, V., TI - Managing customers for profit: strategies to increase profits and build loyalty SN - 9788131719800 U1 - 658.812 PY - 2008/// CY - Upper Saddle River, N.J. PB - Wharton School Pub. KW - Customer relations KW - Management KW - Profit N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Maximizing profitability -- Customer selection metrics -- Managing customer profitability -- Maximizing customer profitability -- Managing loyalty and profitability simultaneously -- Optimal allocation of resources across marketing and communication strategies -- Pitching the right product to the right customer at the right time -- Preventing attrition of customers -- Managing multichannel shoppers -- Linking investments in branding to customer profitability -- Acquiring profitable customers -- Managing customer referral behavior -- Organizational and implementation challenges -- The future of customer management ER -