WIJAYANTI, ARI (2008) STRATEGI MENINGKATKAN LOYALITAS MELALUI KEPUASAN PELANGGAN (Studi Kasus: Produk Kartu Seluler PraBayar Mentari Indosat Wilayah Semarang). Masters thesis, program Pascasarjana Universitas Diponegoro.
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Abstract
In marketing, there is no doubt that customer loyalty is essential. Marketers will always try to keep their customers last or even forever if it’s possible. Therefore, this research tries to exam the factors impacting on customer loyalty. The predicted factors are: service quality, product quality, price, switching cost and customer satisfaction. Data about those variable was collected by conducting interviews with questionnaire to 135 respondents. The data then were being analyzed using structural Equation Modeling (SEM) Method. With SEM method to test the hypothesis, the result shows that service quality have a positive impact on customer satisfaction, product quality have a positive impact on customer satisfaction, product price have a positive impact on the customer satisfaction, customer satisfaction have a positive impact on switching cost, switching cost have a positive impact on customer loyalty. There are some implications that can be suggested from this research, loyalty can be increased by increasing satisfaction and switching cost, i.e.: formulate a competitive price suitable for the service and the product quality and customer sacrifice, improving the product quality by enhancing the physical performance by enlarging the service area; by adding more BTS to provide stronger signal; add more distribution agent. Service quality can be improved by being more responsive and giving quicker services; by establishing better technology to support better product quality, accuracy of services and faster handling so that they can give customer oriented services. In order to increase the switching cost, it can be conducted by enlarging the coverage area, giving some additional services, simplify the new account number registration, and join with other company to get other facility for Mentari’s customer. Pentingnya loyalitas pelanggan dalam pemasaran tidak diragukan lagi. Pemasar sangat mengharapkan dapat mempertahankan pelanggannya dalam jangka panjang, bahkan jika mungkin untuk selamanya. Oleh karena itu penelitian ini ingin menguji faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi loyalitas pelanggan. Faktor-faktor tersebut adalah: kualitas layanan, kualitas produk, harga, switching cost dan kepuasan pelanggan. Data yang diperlukan, diperoleh melalui wawancara dengan menggunakan kuesioner kepada 135 responden. Data yang diperoleh kemudian dianalisis dengan menggunakan teknik Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Hasil pengujian hipotesis dengan menggunakan SEM membuktikan bahwa kualitas layanan berpengaruh positif terhadap kepuasan pelanggan, kualitas produk berpengaruh positif terhadap kepuasan pelanggan, harga produk berpengaruh positif terhadap kepuasan pelanggan, kepuasan pelanggan berpengaruh positif terhadap loyalitas, kepuasan pelanggan berpengaruh positif terhadap switching cost, switching cost berpengaruh positif terhadap loyalitas pelanggan. Berdasarkan hasil pengujian hipotesis tersebut maka dapat ditarik beberapa implikasi manajerial, yaitu loyalitas ditingkatkan dengan meningkatkan kepuasan pelanggan dan switching cost. Hal ini dilakukan dengan membangun harga yang kompetitif sesuai kualitas produk, pelayanan dan pengorbanan pelanggan, meningkatkan kualitas produk melalui perluasan jangkauan area, menambah BTS agar sinyal lebih kuat, dan penambahan galeri Indosat. Sedangkan meningkatkan kualitas pelayanan melalui teknologi yang tinggi yang mendukung kualitas produk dan kecepatan dan keakuratan pelayanan. Peningkatan switching cost dengan peningkatan kepuasan pelanggan, memperluas coverage area, pelayanan tambahan, mempermudah prosedur registrasi nomor baru, dan pembuatan komunitas dan bekerjasama dengan perusahaan lain untuk memberikan nilai tambah bagi pengguna Mentari.
Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
Divisions: | School of Postgraduate (mixed) > Master Program in Management |
ID Code: | 16507 |
Deposited By: | Mr UPT Perpus 2 |
Deposited On: | 13 Jul 2010 08:24 |
Last Modified: | 13 Jul 2010 08:24 |
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