"Traditional marketing dealt with market segments. Relationship marketing gives management more "bang for the marketing buck" by focusing on the ultimate market segment - the individual customer - effectively and efficiently. Marketing attempted to generate as many sales transactions as possible, across all groups of customers. Relationship marketing enables your company to improve profitability customer by customer, by focusing on those who receive, and return, the best value. " "Relationship Marketing: New Strategies, Techniques and Technologies to Win the Customers You Want and Keep Them Forever goes far beyond the basic idea that customers' needs and desires can be addressed uniquely. It is a practical guide to helping marketers and others to integrate relationship marketing into the business and use it to create value for the company and for its customers. "--Jacket.