International Journal of Applied Services Marketing Perspectives Volume 1‚ Number 1‚ July -September 2012 THE EFFECT OF SEX APPEAL IN ADVERTISEMENTS ON ADOLESCENTS AN ETHICAL QUESTION Dharmesh Motwani1 Khushbu Agarwal2 ABSTRACT “Sex Sells”‚ is a very well known term in the advertising world‚ but now it is a much less powerful technique than before‚ due to the ethical dilemma surrounding it. Sex appeal is one of the most controversial advertising approaches found‚ that is although popular‚ faces
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ways to improve store checkout systems. This study compared the cashier checkout and the electronic selfcheck out systems. Data for this study were collected by observations of checkout processes at Wal-Mart Super Centers in the Jackson‚ Mississippi‚ area. Formulated research questions were statistically tested employing the independent samples t-tests and the chi square test for independence. Results of these analyses showed that consumers preferred the cashier checkout system to the electronic
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NORTHCENTRAL UNIVERSITY ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET Learner: | | MKT5000-8 | Elisa Fredericks | | | Service Marketing | #5 Service Delivery | | | <Add Learner comments here> ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Faculty Use Only ------------------------------------------------- <Faculty comments here> -------------------------------------------------
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Service Outsourcing Yong-Pin Zhou∗ and Z. Justin Ren† February 2‚ 2010 Abstract This article reviews the Operations Management (OM) research on service outsourcing‚ a common practice among today’s businesses. We focus on recent literature in three areas: capacity planning and supplier coordination‚ service outsourcing under information asymmetry‚ and quality concerns. Additionally‚ a mathematical framework is presented that can be used to analyze service outsourcing supply chains. We conclude with
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Service quality is becoming an important part in hotel industry. Thus‚ it is significant to measure and find effectiveness of service quality based on customers’ satisfaction.The paper is a brief analysis of service gap in Sheraton Macao Hotel. According to the questionnaires and investigation‚ we hope to find out the customers’ satisfaction in Sheraton Macao hotel and whether Sheraton Macao Hotel can satisfy her customers. Key words: Sheraton Macao Hotel‚ customers’ satisfaction. 1. Introduction
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stands for Customer Relationship Management. It is a strategy used to learn more about customers ’ needs and behaviors in order to develop stronger relationships with them. It plays an important role in understanding customer’s needs by gathering the information about the customers that helps in marketing and selling the company’s products. With an effective Customer Relationship Management strategy‚ an organization can increase revenues by providing better services and selling products effectively
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Why quality customer service is more important in banking industry? Behaylu W.Deneke Most‚ if not all‚ private commercial banks in Ethiopia use almost the same marketing approaches to attract customers. They develop the traditional banking products and open branches everywhere then promote their branch and Products aggressively on the traditional channel. Before going to the detail let me differentiate between bank product and bank services. The bank products are deposit‚ borrowing or other
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_____________ SERVICE SECTOR - CURRENT MARKETTING NATURE INTRODUCTION Services are deed process and performance. Service includes all economic activities whose output is not tangible. The world economy nowadays is increasingly characterized as service economy .As today more than 70% of world economies income and employment is contributed by services sector and p their major contribution to the GDP in developing countries. Service marketing refers to the marketing of services as against tangible
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Introduction To market services effectively‚ marketing managers need to understand the consumer decision process applies to both goods and services. In this essay‚ firstly‚ I am going to analyze the pre-purchase stage of service experiences in Modern Beauty Salon which is a beauty salon that I encountered recently. Secondly‚ I will evaluate the different types of risk which I perceived before consumption. Thirdly‚ I would like to illustrate the various strategies that the company offered in order
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of Service Quality and Its Implications for Future Research The attainment of quality in products and services has become a pivotal concern of the 1980s. While quality in tangible goods has been described and measured by marketers‚ quality in services is largely undefined and unresearched. The authors attempt to rectify this situation by reporting the insights obtained in an extensive exploratory investigation of quality in four service businesses and by developing a model of service quality. Propositions
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