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PCS 391

Customer Behavior: Consumer Behavior and Beyond

 

Course Description / Topics

How to Enroll

Ordering Study Materials

The PCS Program

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PCS 391 explains the motivations, attitudes, and buying behavior of customers, including those who purchase insurance and financial services, as well as intermediary customers such as agents and brokers.

Topics Covered:

  • Managerial Importance of Customer Behavior
  • Three Roles of a Customer
  • Market Values Customers Seek
  • Financial Services Customers
  • Determinants of Customer Behavior
  • The Customer as a Perceiver and Listener
  • Customer Motivation and Psychographics
  • Customer Attitudes
  • Market Differentiation and Segmentation
  • Understanding Intermediaries as Customers
  • Individual Customer Decision Making
  • Business Customer Decision Making
  • Understanding Consumers as Financial Services Customers
  • Customer Loyalty to Products
  • Relationship-Based Buying
  • Creating Market Values for the Customer

How to Enroll

Simply log in to LOMANET, LOMA’s internet-based system that allows students and training administrators to access student information, monitor progress, and enroll for exams. New student? Visit LOMANET at www.lomanet.org and create an account today!

 

Ordering Study Materials

 

To order PCS course material contact:
PBD Worldwide Fulfillment Services
Order online! www.pbd.com 
Tel: 1-800-887-3723 or 770-280-4178
Fax: 770-280-4150
E-mail: LNH@pbd.com

 

Textbooks for this course:

Customer Behavior: Consumer Behavior and Beyond (2001); (Harcourt Brace College Publishers; ISBN 0-03-046842-6) [PBD Order # PCS 391-10-01].
Test Preparation Guide for PCS 391 (2001); (LOMA; ISBN 1-57974-127-4) [PBD Order # PCS 391-40-01].

 

PCS Designation Program

The PCS Program is designed especially for individuals in customer contact positions in the financial services industry such as call center staff, customer service representatives, claim representatives, and managers. Required courses:

  • PCS 391—Customer Behavior

  • PCS 392—Customer Contacts: Strategies and Operations

  • PCS 393—Customer Relationship Management

AND

When you successfully complete the three courses in LOMA's PCS Program, you will receive a certificate of completion. If you have earned your Associate, Customer Service (ACS) designation prior to completing the PCS Program, you will receive a personalized diploma and may replace the ACS designation with PCS after your name.

 

For More Information

Contact your company’s LOMA Educational Representative or contact LOMA's Office of the Registrar.

LOMA's Office of the Registrar
Phone: 800-ASK-LOMA (Option 1) / 770-984-3761
Fax: 770-984-6415
E-mail: education@loma.org


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