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Relationship Marketing Re-Imagined: Marketing's Inevitable Shift from Exchanges to Value Cocreating Relationships is an eight-chapter book published by Business Expert Press in 2016 and written by Naresh K. Malhotra, senior fellow, CIBER and Regents' Professor Emeritus at the Scheller College of Business at Georgia Institute of Technology, Can Uslay, associate professor of marketing at Rutgers Business School, and Ahmet Bayraktar, assistant professor of marketing at Bozok University. The book argues why organizations should focus on creating customer relationships. They consider business-to-business, business-to-consumer, and internal relationships and provide a framework for understanding how to market for each. They also explain how using a Customer Lifetime Value model effectively measures marketing success. Within each chapter, the authors include questions, an analysis of a real-world example, and a review of concepts. In Chapter 3, B2B Relationship Marketing (38 pages), the authors explore partnerships between businesses. They outline three criteria for effective relationships: dependence, commitment, and trust. They describe requirements for building these, and highlight how opportunistic behavior affects relationships. They also outline what factors improve a firm's relationship management capability. They categorize four types of B2B relationships and review different types of strategic alliances. The chapter ends with two real-world examples: Eatiply (cause marketing) and Apple and Clearwell (alliance).

• B2B marketing
• Customer retention
• Customer relationship management