Intangibility Services are not physical and cannot be "possessed." Because they can’t be seen‚ touched‚ or made tangible in some way‚ assessing their quality and value is difficult. A services client will never know how good the service is until after he receives it. In some cases‚ it actually may be months or years before a trigger event occurs to activate the service‚ at which time the client hopes to experience the promised service quality (e.g.‚ an IT crisis triggers service‚ or an accident initiates
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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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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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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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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 Name：Hang Hu Student number: 12350648 Date:26/03/2014 Introduction: As a Level 2 student studying Advertising and marketing‚ Service marketing plays an important role in my study. Service marketing is a sub field of marketing which covers the marketing of both goods and services (Wikipedia.com‚ 2014). It is considered to be a special kind of marketing‚
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almost all aspects of services operation have compelled the management of every service industry to place emphasis on the efficient and effective method of presenting its service. The need for marketing in service industry cannot be overemphasized‚ the degree of marketing activities in a company depends on the size of the market. Traditionally‚ executives in service industries have not been market driven. They have lagged behind sellers of products in accepting the marketing concept and have generally
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Introduction to Services Marketing In general‚ goods can be defined as objects‚ devices‚ or things‚ whereas products refer to both goods and services. A service is any act or performance that one party can offer to another that is essentially intangible and does not result in the ownership of anything. Its production may or may not be tied to a physical product. The distinction between goods and services is not perfectly clear. Service is the sum of all encounters between a customer and a service provider
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Gold Spa and Fitness Club Marketing for Services Project Report By: Ali Owais Arshia Azhar Arsalan Khan Hassan Tahir M.Adeel Tariq Momin Malik Ibrahim Farukh Haroon Ahmed June 27‚ 2012 Lahore School of Economics Table of contents Executive Summary……………………………………………………………………3 Introduction…………………………………………………………………………….4 Core and Supplementary services…………………………………………………….5 3 Stage model of consumption…………………………………………………………8 Flower of Service……………………………………………………………………….11 Distribution
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Service Marketing 10MBAMM314 Syllabus Module I Introduction to services: What are services‚ Why service marketing‚ Difference in goods and service in marketing‚ Myths about services‚ Concept of service marketing triangle‚ Service marketing mix‚ GAP models of service quality Module II Consumer behaviour in services: Search‚ Experience and Credence property‚ Customer expectation of services‚ Two levels of expectation‚ Zone of tolerance‚ Factors influencing customer expectation of services Customer
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