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Customer

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In sales, commerce and economics, a customer (sometimes known as a client, buyer, or purchaser) is the recipient of a good, service, product or an idea - obtained from a seller, vendor, or supplier via a financial transaction or exchange for money or some other valuable consideration. [1]

51 relations: Business, Buyer, Closure (psychology), Commerce, Competition (economics), Consideration, Consumer, Creditor, Custom (law), Customer delight, Customer relationship management, Customer satisfaction, Customer service, Data integration, Desire, Distribution (marketing), Early adopter, Economics, Employment, End user, Entrepreneurship, Financial transaction, Gift economy, Goods, Greed and fear, Guided selling, Industry, Intellectual property, Intermediary, Joseph M. Juran, Market economy, Market segmentation, Marketing, Money, Need, Product (business), Production (economics), Purchasing, Quality management, Regulatory agency, Sales, Service (economics), Service-level agreement, Shareholder, Six Sigma, Stakeholder (corporate), Supply chain, Tertiary sector of the economy, Total quality management, Trade, ..., Vendor. Expand index (1 more) »

Business

Business is the activity of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (goods and services).

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Buyer

A buyer is any person who contracts to acquire an asset in return for some form of consideration.

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Closure (psychology)

Closure or need for closure (NFC) (used interchangeably with need for cognitive closure (NFCC)) are psychological terms that describe an individual's desire for a firm answer to a question and an aversion toward ambiguity.

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Commerce

Commerce relates to "the exchange of goods and services, especially on a large scale.” Commerce includes legal, economic, political, social, cultural and technological systems that operate in any country or internationally.

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Competition (economics)

In economics, competition is a condition where different economic firmsThis article follows the general economic convention of referring to all actors as firms; examples in include individuals and brands or divisions within the same (legal) firm.

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Consideration

Consideration is a concept of English common law and is a necessity for simple contracts but not for special contracts (contracts by deed).

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Consumer

A consumer is a person or organization that use economic services or commodities.

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Creditor

A creditor is a party (for example, person, organization, company, or government) that has a claim on the services of a second party.

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Custom (law)

Custom in law is the established pattern of behavior that can be objectively verified within a particular social setting.

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Customer delight

Customer delight is surprising a customer by exceeding his or her expectations and thus creating a positive emotional reaction.

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Customer relationship management

Customer relationship management (CRM) is an approach to manage a company's interaction with current and potential customers.

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Customer satisfaction

Customer satisfaction (often abbreviated as CSAT, more correctly CSat) is a term frequently used in marketing.

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Customer service

Customer service is the provision of service to customers before, during and after a purchase.

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Data integration

Data integration involves combining data residing in different sources and providing users with a unified view of them.

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Desire

Desire is a sense of longing or hoping for a person, object, or outcome.

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Distribution (marketing)

Distribution (or place) is one of the four elements of the marketing mix.

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Early adopter

An early adopter (sometimes misspelled as early adapter or early adaptor) or lighthouse customer is an early customer of a given company, product, or technology.

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Economics

Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

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Employment

Employment is a relationship between two parties, usually based on a contract where work is paid for, where one party, which may be a corporation, for profit, not-for-profit organization, co-operative or other entity is the employer and the other is the employee.

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End user

In product development, an end user (sometimes end-user) is a person who ultimately uses or is intended to ultimately use a product.

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Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is the process of designing, launching and running a new business, which is often initially a small business.

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Financial transaction

A financial transaction is an agreement, or communication, carried out between a buyer and a seller to exchange an asset for payment.

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Gift economy

A gift economy, gift culture, or gift exchange is a mode of exchange where valuables are not traded or sold, but rather given without an explicit agreement for immediate or future rewards.

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Goods

In economics, goods are materials that satisfy human wants and provide utility, for example, to a consumer making a purchase of a satisfying product.

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Greed and fear

Greed and fear refer to two intrinsic emotional states relating to the topic of unpredictability of stock market.

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Guided selling

Guided selling is a process that helps potential buyers of products or services to choose the product best fulfilling their needs and hopefully guides the buyer to buy.

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Industry

Industry is the production of goods or related services within an economy.

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Intellectual property

Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect, and primarily encompasses copyrights, patents, and trademarks.

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Intermediary

An intermediary (or go-between) is a third party that offers intermediation services between two parties.

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Joseph M. Juran

Joseph Moses Juran (December 24, 1904 – February 28, 2008) was a Romanian-born American engineer and management consultant.

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Market economy

A market economy is an economic system in which the decisions regarding investment, production, and distribution are guided by the price signals created by the forces of supply and demand.

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Market segmentation

Market segmentation is the process of dividing a broad consumer or business market, normally consisting of existing and potential customers, into sub-groups of consumers (known as segments) based on some type of shared characteristics.

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Marketing

Marketing is the study and management of exchange relationships.

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Money

Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts in a particular country or socio-economic context.

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Need

A need is something that is necessary for an organism to live a healthy life.

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Product (business)

In marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a market that might satisfy a want or need.

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Production (economics)

Production is a process of combining various material inputs and immaterial inputs (plans, know-how) in order to make something for consumption (the output).

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Purchasing

Purchasing refers to a business or organization attempting to acquire goods or services to accomplish its goals.

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Quality management

Quality management ensures that an organization, product or service is consistent.

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Regulatory agency

A regulatory agency (also regulatory authority, regulatory body or regulator) is a public authority or government agency responsible for exercising autonomous authority over some area of human activity in a regulatory or supervisory capacity.

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Sales

Sales is activity related to selling or the amount of goods or services sold in a given time period.

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Service (economics)

In economics, a service is a transaction in which no physical goods are transferred from the seller to the buyer.

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Service-level agreement

A service-level agreement (SLA) is a commitment between a service provider and a client.

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Shareholder

A shareholder or stockholder is an individual or institution (including a corporation) that legally owns one or more shares of stock in a public or private corporation.

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Six Sigma

Six Sigma (6σ) is a set of techniques and tools for process improvement.

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Stakeholder (corporate)

In a corporation, as defined in its first usage in a 1963 internal memorandum at the Stanford Research Institute, a stakeholder is a member of the "groups without whose support the organization would cease to exist".

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Supply chain

A supply chain is a system of organizations, people, activities, information, and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer.

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Tertiary sector of the economy

The tertiary sector or service sector is the third of the three economic sectors of the three-sector theory.

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Total quality management

Total quality management (TQM) consists of organization-wide efforts to install and make a permanent climate in which an organization continuously improves its ability to deliver high-quality products and services to customers.

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Trade

Trade involves the transfer of goods or services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money.

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Vendor

In a supply chain, a vendor, or a seller, is an enterprise that contributes goods or services.

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Clientele, Customer account, Customers, Industrial customer, Intermediate customer, Internal customer, Internal customers, Market (customers), Trade customer, Ultimate customer.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer

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