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THE MUTATION OF RELATIONSHIP MARKETING

Journal: Oriental Reniassance: Innovative, educational, natural and social sciences (Vol.1, No. 4)

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Page : 744-756

Keywords : Relationship Marketing; Relational Mutation; Transaction Mutation;

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Abstract

N 21 century Relationship Marketing is emerging as a new phenomenon. However, relationship oriented marketing practices date back to the pre-Industrial era. In this article, we trace the history of marketing practices and illustrate how the advent of mass production, the emergence of middlemen, and the separation of the producer from the consumer in the Industrial era led to a transactional focus of marketing. Now, due to technological advances, direct marketing is staging a comeback, leading to a relationship mutation. The authors contend that with the of Relationship Marketing, the hitherto prominent exchange paradigm of marketing will be insufficient to explain the growing marketing phenomena of collaborative involvement of customers in the production process. An alternate paradigm of marketing needs to be developed that is more process rather than outcome oriented, and emphasizes value creation rather than value distribution.

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