Partnership Benefits
How staff and customers can benefit.
INTERNAL BENEFITS
| EXTERNAL BENEFITS | Improve internal relations
| Make a difference: customers like to support a company that cares | Team building: have fun and unite your staff
| Differentiate your brand by demonstrating corporate responsibility | Increase morale: employees like to work for a company that makes a positive difference within the community
| Positive PR and Corporate Identity | Enhance motivation: feel good factor from staff after making a difference
| | | Acquire new skills | | CAUSE RELATED MARKETING (CRM) CRM partnerships with charities are more likely to persuade customers to buy a brand than tie-ups with sport, music and fashion, according to a survey (Third Sector, 27.02.08)
Cause Related Marketing is the activity by which a company with an image, product or service to market, builds a relationship or partnership with a ‘cause’ or number of ‘causes’ for mutual benefit. (www.dsc.org.uk) “Consumers report that CRM is effective in encouraging switching within product categories and that it has a powerful influence on purchase decisions…” (www.bitc.org.uk) 77% of employers/employees believe that CRM can enhance corporate and/or brand reputation (www.bitc.org.uk)
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