Services Marketing A service is the action of doing something for someone or something. It is largely intangible (i.e. not material). A product is tangible (i.e. material) since you can touch it and own it. A service tends to be an experience that is consumed at the point where it is purchased‚ and cannot be owned since is quickly perishes. A person could go to a café one day and have excellent service‚ and then return the next day and have a poor experience. So often marketers talk about the nature
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Review Question (pg. 54‚ no. 12) The term “marketing mix” could suggest that marketing managers are mixers of ingredients. Is that perspective a recipe for success when employing the 7 Ps to develop a services marketing strategy? The marketing mix is a business tool used in marketing products. The marketing mix is often crucial when determining a product or brand’s unique selling point‚ meaning that the unique quality that differentiates a product from its competitors‚ and is often synonymous
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Gaps Model of Service Quality The 4 gaps in the Gaps Model are knowledge gap‚ standards gap‚ delivery gap and communication gap. Knowledge gap is the difference between customers’ expectations and the retailer’s perception of these customer’s expectations. This occurs when a person do not know what the customers expect or want. By applying knowledge gap to H&M retail store‚ it refers to the salesperson not knowing what their customers expect/want. For example‚ a customer visiting the H&M
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The Gaps Model of Service Quality Chapter2-1 2 The Customer Gap – Gap 5 The Provider Gaps: Gap 1 – The Listening Gap not knowing what customers expect Gap 2 – The Design and Standards Gap not having the right service designs and standards Gap 3 – The Performance Gap not delivering to service standards Gap 4 – The Communication Gap not matching performance to promises Putting It All Together: Closing the Gaps McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2009
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Introduction Lusch et al. (2007) describe as marketing emerged in the beginning of the 20th century‚ it embraced the goods-dominant (G-D) logic. The concept of the Four Ps of marketing mix – product‚ price‚ place and promotion became treated as the basic model at that time. (Grönroos‚ 1989) Today‚ this paradigm is beginning to lose its position. Service marketing is one leading new approach to marketing. Four main characteristics of services defined by Kotler et al. (2009) are intangible‚ perishable
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1.0 OVERVIEW OF THE SERVICE INDUSTRY We have always had service industries‚ and indeed there are numerous biblical references to services as diverse as inn keeping‚ money lending and market trading. Over time‚ the service sector has grown in volume and in the importance attributed to it. According to Baker J.M et al‚ The Marketing Book 5th Ed‚ (2003)‚ early economists saw services as being totally unproductive‚ adding nothing of value to an economy. He quotes Adam Smith as having included
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achieve international growth be it service or manufacturing sector. There are many routes for expansion such as‚ Greenfield investment‚ Joint venture‚ Mergers and acquisitions‚ sales or marketing alliances (The Economist‚ 2007). There will be many obstacles to achieve this. Services are an important part of global economy and this is increasing. While most of the international business strategies and theories which are good for manufacturing sector could be used for service firms but there are critical
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concept of Customer Service Management based on customer involvement with Hotel-81. Researches in this report include academic journal articles‚ press release‚ newspaper report and textbook references dated no later than year 2008. In order to attain value co-creation‚ examinations of Critical Incidents and Zone of Tolerance behaviour in service encounter were used to study the target audience of Hotel-81. Models such as the SERVQUAL‚ Servicescape‚ Service Blueprint and Service Encounter traits were
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Services marketing-103038 Part A 1. Services marketing is marketing based on relationship and value. It may be used to market a service or a product. Marketing a service-base business is different from marketing a goods-base business. There are several major differences‚ including: 1. The buyer purchases are intangible 2. The service may be based on the reputation of a single person 3. It’s more difficult to compare the quality of similar services 4. The buyer cannot return the
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------------------------------------------------- SERVICE QUALITY GAP IN RESTAURANTS IN VARANASI Under the Guidance of Dr. Ashutosh Mohan By:- Prachi Prabha Chauhan(31) Jitendra Singh(19) MBA-IB (2010-2012) INTRODUCTION The restaurant industry is a demanding sector that stresses the provision of high-level customer service and continuous quality improvement. As lifestyles change and dining out becomes more and more commonplace‚ customers desire new flavors‚ comfortable ambience and pleasant
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