Abstract:
The objectives of this research are 1) To study the automobile companies customer relationship management strategies and tactics for build and improve the corporate image. 2) To study customers perception towards the strategies of customer relationship management. 3) To study customer's attitude towards customer relationship management for building an image of automobile companies. 4) To study a corporate image when used the customer relationship management strategies. 5) To know the tendency of customer relationship management strategies in the future by studying from the in-depth interview and documents analysis including 10 automobile companies such as Toyota Motor Thailand Co., Ltd., Honda Automobile ( Thailand ) Co., Ltd., Chevrolet Sales (Thailand) Limited, Mercedes-Benz (Thailand) Ltd., Siam Nissan Automobile Co., Ltd., Ford Sales & Service (Thailand) Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Motors (Thailand) Co., Ltd., Mazda Sales (Thailand) Co., Ltd., BMW Leasing (Thailand) Co., Ltd. and BMW (Thailand) Co., Ltd. The second part was survey research 419 samples who were the customer of 10 companies.
The results indicated that the automobile companies customer relationship management strategies objective were 1) to give customers the most satisfaction. 2) to retain customer loyalty 3) to increase profits by used IMC tools such as Direct mail, SMS/Call centre, website, customer assistant and special events. The survey research was found that the more perception, satisfaction on customer relationship management, the better attitude of customer towards those automobile companies. The companies was communicate to their customer continuously would be successful in creating the positive attitude towards the companies as well. Customers who have the positive attitude towards car brand would also have a good attitude and perception on such automobile company.