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a product that was purchased secondhand? Is a customer a person, a
family, a company, the purchasing agent, or the design engineer? And
what if Internet auctions become such a big business that customers
become resellers?
Statement 5. We do not know how the Internet will change our knowledge
of customers. In this era of electronic commerce, customers deal with
suppliers predominantly via electronic channels, making the supplier/
customer relationship more remote than before. This new purchasing
channel has had a major impact on CRM, its processes, technologies, and
implementation, as well as in the way that the Internet interrelates to other
channels of communication. The term coined by the industry ...