Customer relationship management of Dominos Pizza

1 Short brand overview.

Established in 1960 in Michigan, USA Dominos is a world-famous pizza organization. It has expanded its operation in many countries in a limited time due to its authenticity and premium food quality. Building its management with a strong human resource and management base in the year 2018 it recorded a revenue of $3.43 billion which has benefited the company in the long run. Serving a variety of pizza with a variety of toppings is the primary product for Dominos. One of the main aspects of it and a strong market-centric approach of the Pizza giant is that it modifies its menu according to the region of its operations and also includes a variety of other items like Chicken wings, garlic bread, cookies, drinks, etc in their menu. This marketed centered approach of dominos paying close attention to the demand of its regional consumers has made it popular and undisputed.

(Source: Pinterest, 2020)

Dominos has become more popular and smart by using its effective target market and segmentation strategy in order to identify its customers, know their needs, map their deliveries, and introduce something new to its customers continuously. Taking a close look at its menu it has targeted a majority of the age group which includes youngsters, children, and elders. It has also used smarter marketing techniques while using Microsoft's Xbox among youngsters to order their favorite pizza in playtime right from the console itself.

Over time Dominos has effectively identified technology and adapted the same for ordering its product through different channels and keeping the customer remote and connected throughout the experience. Keeping differentiated targeting strategy in and it has pulled a large customer base focusing on taste and socio-economic preferences in mind for every country. For example, While entering India dominos has replaced beef in its menu with chicken sausages because they knew that Indians don't prefer beef as the same is a taboo for them(Mishra, & Dham, 2019). This is how smartly they captured the market.

2 Brands major Business orientation

Sticking to a customer orientation philosophy and geographic market segmentation the company focuses and stays flexible in changing its menu as per the taste and preferences of its customers. Alongside it is seen in the case of Dominos that the firm is attracting youngsters and people of young age as they have higher cravings for fast food. It has shifted its focus on being a family brand and targets the family emotion through its marketing strategies. The evidence of their strong family-focused marketing techniques can also be seen in their menu with a "Kids eat free card offer" in which on a purchase of large pizza kids get a free purchase. This gives more value for money to the customer and helps them enjoy their quality time, cherishing the overall memory. The company's family-focused branding strategies made the brand unique in its own ways.

It majorly improves its operations by the feedback of its customers. This is one of the most important components for the company to adapt and improvise. This is a very important tool because they analyze every input of their customers and use it to analyze and set their prices, promotion strategies, and adding/modification of new items on the menu. Providing quick service in order related issues and focusing on customers appeal has helped in expanding the market share and existence as the best pizza organization in the world.

3 Important constituencies of the company.

Suppliers - CRM technology of Dominos:

Dominos has helped the customers in tracking their orders and providing discounts on its product through a pulse system. Through which they track every order from every small and large store. It has worked strategically in making payments smooth for its customers by working alongside companies like Apple Pay, Android pay, windows, and the pizza tracker app. Giving a uniform payment experience to customers on every platform.

Figure 2: Dominos Pizza Tracker

(Source: Beer, 2014)

 Vendor and partner of Dominos

More value for products: It has analyzed its customer preferences and can provide a 25% discount to its first-time customers for their favorite pizzas and another 15% discount on repeat purchases. The company has successfully lured its customer to its attractive discounts by collaborating with a vendor and made its online sale a more pleasant atmosphere.

SMS Marketing: It further provides important news to its customers regarding discounts, new products, and other offers through the medium of SMS. It has achieved this by collaborating with EZ texting company and the same has helped them in increasing their target market reach and sales.

Digital Transformation: Out of all the greatest steps for the company was its collaboration with HS2 solutions which has helped Dominos to upgrade its service and digital presence in many countries. Dominos has gained and witnessed a huge digital transformation in its emails and social media campaigns and smartly target the audience for a great reach. This was one of the revolutions that the company experienced with its strategic alliance.

4 Summarizing Academic Research

It has been found from the research findings that the brand identity in the minds of buyers influences their consumption of fast foods. Cheng and Chang (2011) claimed that the research was based on an evaluation of consumer satisfaction with their loyalty. It has been shown that the frequency of consumption, perceived price, and convenience are directly proportional to customer satisfaction and loyalty along with the success of the company. Hence, they surveyed distinct restaurants in Taiwan to analyze the effective outcomes from 594 respondents more or less.

In the view of the findings from research, it can be stated that to increase consumer satisfaction and loyalty the brand store has to keenly understand their buying behavior and choices. With the purpose of making it more convenient and comfortable for the lives of consumers, their pricing and delivery should be easy and affordable. Thus, it can be said that the positive impact on buyers can positively impact their relationship with the store or vice versa.

5 Technique for acquiring new customers.

Social media marketing: Social media marketing is one of the most important platforms to introduce new products, prices, offers, and promotional commercials to lure more audiences to them. Over time the Pizza giant has used various marketing campaigns to attract customers to try its products, be it an event or technology Dominos is never behind for its innovative marketing (Akhter, 2019). Its digitally tech-savvy customers it has introduced Pizza emojis. This is a creative advertisement where a customer can order pizza through tweeting online. Taking technology to the next level dominos has an autonomous pizza bot where the company delivers pizza through a robot (Figliozzi, & Jennings, 2020). This is a system based robot that delivers pizza within a one-mile radius in Germany and other Dutch homelands. Targeting emotions on social media platforms, its wedding registry campaign allows the couple to choose and design their own pizza, this gives a feeling of premium exclusiveness to the customers making their day special. Through social media marketing and a strong bond with its customers, Dominos has drastically improved its services for its customers.

T.V Advertising: Dominos has effectively used the medium of television as an effective marketing platform and created various campaigns for advertising and promotional means. Keeping customer relationship management as a primary part of the business it has adopted different techniques of marketing and produced some of the best campaigns like the Pizza turnaround campaign which aims at conveying a message of its new recipe and it also told its customers that they are focusing more on service transparency (Paul, 2019). Maintaining its quality in each product it has proved innovation in food and its taste to pull its customers towards trying Dominos. Keeping its regulations strict on quality and with total quality management, they have refined their process and ingredients to add flavor to the product.

Sales Promotion:  The company always aims to give sales promotions to its customers. They are always looking to cut prices and introduce new offers to the customers, this has helped in gaining a large number of customers. Even on weekdays, they try to give 1 Pizza free on any order of 1 large Pizza. Even more, discounts if you are picking food! They give a 50% discount if you pick up your food rather than opting for delivery. Adding to this, they support and host happy hours for food which is proven to attract more customers during midweek and during weekdays which increases their sales phenomenally. Dominos is a customer-centric company and it focuses on easing the customer in every manner, they also provide festive offers country-wise and offer vouchers supporting the same.

Figure 3: Driverless Advertising for Sales Promotion

  (Source: Fairs, 2015)

 6 Positive and negative retention strategies of the company.

Delight customers: Organizations need to have retention strategies and everyone has some other plans to deal in critical situations. This initiative of Dominos was tested in the year 2017 when Margherita had to be brought back due to high public demand. It faced another incident like this with Vegan cheese limited edition. The product got stock out due to high demand in Australia. But as the customers demanded the product strongly it was brought back in the menus and then permanently added the same in their menus. As it has always exercised a customer-centric approach keeping in mind the test and preference of its customers the firm has always not just satisfied but delighted the customers.

Customer perceived value: Thanks to the firm customer-centric approach it has always focus on customer's opinions and feedback. The firm also appreciates and provides value to its customers in the form of coupons, discounts, and best offers. It always uses the latest but the simplest of technologies to keep the process short for the customers. The firm focuses on targeting the emotions of the people to share a strong bond with them. Keeping personal touch in mind they always try to work their offers around a family and offer a special discount on such menus. Along with the same, the company also focuses on discounts and tries to maintain the most discounted structure in their menus all around the globe. With this type of bonded relations and emphasis on creating better customer service, the company Dominos has effectively met its customer's expectations.

Negative retention strategies: Creating a delightful experience for the customers sometimes comes at a cost when the company forcefully tries to retain the customers. Sometimes when after placing an order if the customer wishes to update his order the same cannot be done as the representatives always revert with either the order has been prepared already and cannot be modified or has been dispatched to the address, this sometimes gets irritating for the customers as they have to wait for the initial order to be closed and delivered before ordering a fresh new pizza again because the earlier one was not modified. Another instance is when the pizza is not packed properly and the contents get messy by getting a stick on the box during delivery. When the pizza arrives the toppings are spoiled and purpose is defeated. The customer has no option but to pay for it and eat the same (Quoquab, et.al, 2019). The most important content is privacy as Dominos stores the financial (Payment) information of its customers along with proper address and preferences. These are very critical and sensitive information and may be misused during service. As a giant company, it has to take care of all these negative things in its service and work around the problems relating to delivery and privacy to provide better customer service.

7 Brand Marketing Mix and its contribution to customer targeting

Figure 4: Dominos Offerings

(Source: Bagri, 2012)

Product: Dominos is serving freshly baked Pizza with options for vegetarian and non-vegetarian clients. They never compromise with the quality of offerings and have prepared a unique box design to keep the pizza fresh and hot at the time of delivery. Also, they are prepared with localized tastes and preferences to satisfy every buyer (Hamouda, 2016). In addition to that, they offer garlic bread, tacos, garlic breadsticks, soft drinks, and deserts. With the wide range of pizzas, they have captured a large market segment.

Price: The price elect enables businesses to directly target the customer segment of their choice. With an attractive price point, the brand targets all types of consumers. The strategy adopted by Dominos to attract buyers is a penetration strategy to attract a large consumer base. In order to lure customers, Dominos offers good quality exclusive products and simultaneously the clients get value for money. Moreover, they have gained a good customer base by maintaining the price level. Also, they have adopted innovative and updated schemes while designing a pricing strategies to attract clients.

Place: The organization has both online and offline stores offering dine-in and home delivery services to its customers. At present they are having around 13000 stores worldwide. Also, they have different schemes like if the product is not delivered within 30 minutes then it is delivered for free (Roggeveen and Beitelspacher, 2019). Thus, the details of consumer location are collected beforehand by the store to ensure timely delivery to the right buyer. In order to become accessible at anyplace and far and wide to all consumers, the brand strongly emphasizes an intense distribution strategy.

Promotion: The seller has successfully articulated a convenient serving facility for its buyers by developing a direct link through various distribution channels. Moreover, they have festive offers, discounts to attract customers. In order to make certain that the buyers never forget the brand, they have used various advertising strategies like celebrity endorsements and social media campaigns. Additionally, the brand offers door-to-door services for workplaces, universities, and schools, or any other gatherings. Thus, a strong reputation is built. As well, other promotional channels like Instagram or Twitter are casted-off with traditional newspapers and magazines for adverts.

People: For the service entity their entire team of people is the important element. The staff and even the delivery driver, manager, and store manager of Dominos are apparently recognized in their blue dress with caps all over the world. Moreover, the organization has designed a good training and development program to train its employees (Arora, Srivastava, and Bansal, 2020). These training sessions are particularly designed for communication and decision-making skills improvement. Also, they have integrated with e-learning platforms i.e. Webanywherewhich provides them with efficient learning.

Process: With the intention of making ordering easier and simpler for clients the brand has offered three ways including walking in-store or order by phone or online. Both online and offline ordering have separate systems of placing orders and making payments. There is a token system in the store where orders are taken according to token numbers; for Dominos, however, online payment is more successful and faster.

Physical Evidence: This is the element that defines the layouts, designs, furniture, and menu boards of a store. Thus, the brand stores all over the world have adopted specific blue and red for their store appearance. Additionally, they have distinct packaging boxes that are degassing to be made in the same blue color as Dominos Logo. To satisfy the buyer they have maintained proper structures to make them feel at home. 

8 Instances where the company went one step ahead for customers. Explain the action and effect on the customer.

Once in Oregon when a regular customer had suddenly stopped ordering his special order for a week The staff got suspicious and worried about receiving no order from Mr. Kirk Alexander. As the gentleman's order was unique and he used to place the order every other day one of the staff members personally reached home as he was not answering the call where he saw that Mr. Kirk suffered from a stroke and was unable to move (Mclaughlin, 2016). Medical services arrived and took care of the situation bringing him back to health. This shows the company's dedication to its customers.

9 Customer Engagement techniques

Involvement: The term involvement defines the store visit by customers online or offline and their stay period over the website or at the store. As well, they analyze the visits through IP address tracking over application and website (Mosa et.al., 2020). Thus, at Dominos the consumer involvement is identified through their preferences tastes, and order frequency over a specific time period. Also, the consumer details are recorded in the software through their feedback, customer keywords, and their interviews. In order to determine the sales pattern of various stores, the organization analyses the order level at both busy and non-busy times.

Interaction: To thoroughly analyze the buying patterns of buyers the organization employs various promotion channels like Instagram or Twitter and Email Marketing. In addition to this, they have adopted one-liner advertising technique in creative ways to attract visitors through applications like Tinder and other Google apps. Thus, various types of clients interact with the adverts and are influenced by their offers.

Intimacy: To interact with the brand the consumer can easily connect digitally using their fingertips and express their expectation from the store and share buying experience. Moreover, they allow feedback over social media and complaint handlings (Romero, 2017). They have implemented CRM core competencies to extensively utilize The pizza store pays great attention to consumer feedback and make certain they are improving every time.

9 Cause of Company's CRM failure or success.

Integrating service with technology, media marketing, and customer service company has seized a huge market share. Processing customer's feedback the company has developed a strong CRM. On top of that with reasonable rates the company has provided quality food to its customers (Law et.al., 2018). Digital integrations and social media campaign promotion participated in making a successful business strategy. Keeping customers at the epicenter it has focused on innovations and research to improve the service experience giving it an advantage over competitors.

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