TY - BOOK AU - Buschken,Joachim TI - Higher profits through customer lock-in: a roadmap SN - 0324202652 (hbk.) PY - 2004/// CY - Mason, Ohio PB - Thomson KW - Customer relations KW - Customer loyalty KW - Customer services N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-192) and index; Getting out of the customer satisfaction trap -- Customer lock-in in action -- The economics of switching costs : where's the beef? -- Who wins the game? -- Changes to buying behavior -- The new approach to market segmentation -- Motivate and enable brand-specific learning -- Understand and seek contractual lock-in -- Loyalty rewards, but better beware! -- Innovate for technological lock-in -- Creating switching costs through the customer-supplier relationship -- Creating switching costs : a synopsis -- Differentiating the strategy -- Converting switching costs into price premiums -- Leveraging customer switching costs through new product development -- Dealer support for your lock-in strategy -- Addressing customers' risk in communication -- Monitoring the contribution of customer lock-in -- Organizational imperatives for the customer lock-in strategy -- An outlook on lock-in strategy ER -