Consumer Decision Making: The Three-Stage Model of Service Consumption Pre-purchase Stage Service Encounter Stage Post- encounter Stage Customers seek solutions to aroused needs Evaluating a service may be difficult Decision to buy or use a service is triggered by need arousal. What promts us to purchase? Needs. Triggers of need: Unconscius minds Physical conditions External sources Need arousal leads to attempts to find a solution. Evoked set – a set of products and brands
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political risk & instability? Are they also a matter of perception? 2. What aspects international marketing are most affected by political instability in a country? Aspects of International Marketing International Marketing: is the performance of marketing activities in more than one nation. Basic Objectives of International Marketing a) Targeting international customer: segmenting‚ targeting and positioning the international customer. b) Finding global customer need: understand similarities and difference
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Chapter 4 1. Culture- The human made part of human environment the sum total of knowledge‚ beliefs‚ arts‚ morals‚ laws‚ and customs and any other habit adopted by a society. Social Institutions- This Includes all factors that have an effect on the way people relate to each other example schools‚ media‚ and governments. Culture Values- The system of believes held by a people in a given culture.
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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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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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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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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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Introduction A service quality gap analysis is a management technique and a setting performance standard which is based on the actual level of business performance and delivered. By analyzing five gaps‚ firms can find some way to increase company’s profit and performance. Service quality gaps always occur in the real business environment and it is an inevitable problem. However‚ enterprises often based on their customers‚ markets and their product quality to analysis their SERVQUAL and help them
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not possible for an economy to be entirely based on services‚ because an economy must need a certain support from product based industry for balances‚ such as manufacturing‚ construction‚ agriculture‚ forestry‚ fishing & mining. 這是不可能將社會經濟完全建立在服務基礎上，因為經濟需要一定的實際產品生產量去平衡經濟，例如生產業、建築業、農業、林業、魚業和礦業等。 It is not a sign of weakness when a national economy manufactures few of the goods it consumes‚ as developed countries have seen their service economies grow rapidly‚ and it dominates in most of the
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Social enterprises apply business solutions to social problems. The ultimate goal is to achieve sustainability by enabling non-profits to support themselves financially in innovative ways instead of relying solely on grants and donations. Since there are no shareholders in a non-profit organization‚ the profits from the related social enterprise are completely re-invested in the work of the organization. The emergence of revenue-generating activities for non-profits has created a new operating model
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