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Relational Marketing Constructs as Determinants of Student Loyalty

Jeffrey Barcelo Moral | Cherrie Conception Gacias | Jerico John G. Dalangin

 

Abstract:

Relationship marketing is a business strategy established to attract, retain and improve client relationships as described by Berry (1983). By applying relationship marketing, we will determine whether this relationship marketing has a relationship with customer loyalty. The reason of this research is to find out whether relationship marketing construct can be a determiner of student loyalty, with this, it will also validate the reason why student as customer stay or leave the institutions. A quantitative research design was adopted which was based on positivism paradigm. A survey will be conducted in De La Salle Araneta University in Victoneta, Malabon City that involving three hundred eighty six (386) higher education student from 1st year to 4th year.



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