The Impact of Relationship Marketing on Customer Lifetime Value With the Mediating Role of Relationship Quality

Nowadays, companies are looking for strategies to attract new customers as well as retain existing customers and establish a permanent relationship with them to increase their lifetime value. The value of a customer's lifetime is one of the most important tools in achieving profitable customer relationship management. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of relationship marketing on customer lifetime value with the mediating role of relationship quality. This study is practical in terms of purpose and descriptive-correlational in terms of data collection. A questionnaire is used for data collection. The statistical population of the study is customers of Mellat Bank (21 branches) in Tabriz. Due to the unlimited number of statistical population, based on cochran formola, 384 questionnaires are collected by random sampling. Data analysis using structural equation modeling showe that relationship marketing has directly positive and significant effect on customer lifetime value with path coefficient of 0.51 and quality of relationship with path coefficient of 0.57. Also, relationship marketing has indirectly positive and significant effect on customer lifetime value through the mediator variable of relationship quality with path coefficient of 0.51. Given the significant direct and indirect effect of relationship quality variable plays a minor mediating role in this relationship. Banks can build effective relationships with customers by investing in relationship marketing and improving the quality of the relationship, and increase the customer's lifetime and its value.