Introducing Services Marketing
Opportunities & Challenges for Services Marketing
The Services Maketing Triangle
Service Gaps Model
Gap1 : Expectations Cap
Gap2: Service Standards & Designs Gap
Gap3: Delivery Gap
Gap4: Communication Gap
Focusing on the customer
Servcie Evaluation Process
Service Discrepancy and Customer Satisfaction
Service Epectations Dimensions
Service Quality(SERVAQUAL)
Reliability
Ability to perform the promised service dependably and accurately
Responsiveness
Willingness to help customer sand provide prompt service
Assurance
Acurtesy, knowlege, and aility to induce truest & confidence
Empathy
Caring, individualized attention given to customers
Tangibles
Conducting Service Research
An Overview of Service Research
Post-transacton Study
Critical Incident Study
Customer Satisfaction Study(Service Quality, Customer Satisfaction & Loyalty)
Mystery Shopping Study
Complaint/Lost Customer Study
Service Gap Analysis (Service Audit)
Staff Opinion Study
Internal
Post Tansaction Survey
Customers complete a short automatecd telephone questionnaire using the telephone keypad
The results are available online in real-time
Critical Incident Study
Service Encounters
Pick a particular satisfying (or dissatisfying) encouonter
Describe what happened (what circumstances led up to this encounter? what did the employees do?)
Why are you satisfied(or dissatisfied)?
Importance-Performance Analysis
Customer Satisfaction Study
Research Objectives:
Measure current levels of service quality and customer satisfaction & loyalty
Identify key satisfaction & loyalty drivers
Keep track of performance levels over time and in comparsion to competition(beanchmarking)