business is‚ even the future success of a business (Karl‚ 2009). For service marketing‚ which is the form of marketing focuses on processes deeds and performances‚ service quality is only way for customers to evaluate their experiences (Susamoo‚ 2012). Hence‚ the service quality is one of the most important factors that any service organisation should face. Service quality can be defined as ‘a customers ’ perception of how well a service meets or exceeds their expectations’ (Seth‚ Deshmukh & Vrat
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The GAP MODEL in SERVICES MARKETING GAP 1 The gap between the customer expected service and company perception of customer expectation. |Inadequate market research. |Design‚ conduct and implement appropriate market research. | |Poor communication between customers and management and between|Design and implement an upward communications programme. | |front line employees and managers. |
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| | Theory Of The Gaps Model In Service Marketing | | History of the Gaps Model The gaps model of service quality was first developed by a group of authors‚ Parasuraman‚ Zeithaml‚ Berry‚ at Texas A&M and North Carolina Universities‚ in 1985 (Parasuraman‚ Zeithaml & Berry). Based on exploratory studies of service such as executive interviews and focus groups in four different service businesses the authors proposed a conceptual model of service quality indicating that consumers’
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employees are crucial to the service delivery‚ it is important that the organisation hires‚ trains‚ motivates their employees successfully‚ and retain these employees in order to produce a quality product/service. The Service Marketing Triangle highlights three other elements of the marketing mix. These are the internal marketing‚ the external marketing and the interactive marketing. The aspect that emphasises the employee’s role in the service delivery is the interactive marketing as this is the stage where
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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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Hinduja‚ our guide at Emergent Meditech (I) Pvt. Ltd. for his constant encouragement and continuous help in terms of suggestion‚ guidance and expertise during my summer internship. Also‚ I am thankful toMiss. Nisha ‚ Ms. Akansha and Mr. Arshad Marketing team at Emergent Meditech‚ for giving me the moral support and helping me to accomplish the training successfully. I sincerely express my thanks to my internal guide Dr.Suhas Tambe for his valuable guidance and timely suggestions. I am indebted
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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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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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BMA791 SERVICES MARKETING Semester 1‚ 2013 THIS UNIT IS OFFERED IN: Hobart Teaching Team: Dr Rob Hecker Marcus Bai Xuesong CRICOS Provider Code: 00586B Contact Details Unit Coordinator & lecturer: Dr Rob Hecker Campus: Hobart Room Number: 307 Email: Rob.Hecker@utas.edu.au Phone: +61 3 6226 1774 Fax: +61 3 6226 2170 Consultation Time: By appointment 2 Contents Contact Details ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Page 2
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Student ID # 1451565 BU320.2.1 Marketing Principles Assignment 05 Marketing Services 10/05/2012 The marketing of services differs from product marketing because of the four fundamental differences involved in services: Services are intangible‚ inseparable‚ variable‚ and perishable. Intangible which means they cannot be touched‚ tasted‚ or seen like a pure product can. Another difference is that services are produced and consumed at the same time; that is‚ service and consumption are inseparable
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