The document discusses the key characteristics of services and their marketing implications. It describes 12 common service industries and notes that services are intangible, heterogeneous, produced and consumed simultaneously, and cannot be inventoried. It recommends focusing on personnel training, standardizing processes, managing customer interactions, and using pricing and communication strategies. The 7Ps of services marketing are also summarized: People, Physical Evidence, Process, Product, Price, Place, and Promotion.
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Cd6813 services
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2. Lodging hotel, resort, b&b
Healthcare hospital, clinic
Transportation airlines, bus, railways, taxi
Education university, college, kindergarten
Entertainment cineplex, disco, themepark
Food & Beverage restaurant, caf辿, pub
Financial bank, insurance, investment
MRO workshop, service centre, cleaning
Telecommunication telecom, internet
Legal lawyer firm
Training/Consultancy consulting, advertising, training
Social escort, tourist guide, security firm
School of Business Management
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V A L U E - A D D E D
Performances
Actions
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Services cannot be seen, felt, tasted
or touched before they are
purchased.
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Mktg Implications:
Difficult to describe
Difficult to measure Q
Cannot be stored
Cannot be easily patented
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INTANGIBILITY:
SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS
Use tangible clues/physical evidence
Utilize personal sources of information
Create a strong organizational image
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Awards: Pangkor Laut Resort
"Marina Bay Pangkor Laut Estates Listed in Best 101 Hotels in the World" by
Tatler Travel Guide U.K. (2006)
"20 Most Fabulous Spa Retreats in the World" by Australian Gourmet Traveller
Magazine (2005)
"Spa of Malaysia"and"Best Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) - Influenced
Spa" Spa Asia Crystal Awards - Spa Asia Magazine (2005)
'World's Top 25 Spas 2005' by The Sunday Telegraph, U.K.
Senses Wellness Award - "Best Beach Resort" by Senses Wellness Guide,
Germany (2005)
"Top Ten Spa Retreats - Overseas" byConde Nast Traveller U.K. - Readers'
Spa Awards (2005)
"Top Ten Best Overseas Resort" by Luxury Travel & Style Magazine, Australia
- The Gold List 2005
Five Star Diamond Award by The American Academy of Hospitality Sciences
(2002, 2003, 2004 & 2005)
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Pretty Woman:
Julia Roberts gets a taste
of the high-life:
Regent Beverly
Wilshire,
9500 Wilshire Boulevard,
Beverly Hills
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No two services will be precisely alike
Services are heterogeneous across:
time,
organizations, and
people
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Heterogeneity
No two services will be precisely alike
- Produced and influenced by humans
- No two persons are precisely alike
- Even the same person may differ in his
performance from day to day (hour to
hour)
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Mktg Implication:
Standardization and quality control
are difficult to achieve
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Suggested Solution:
Effective training of staffs
Good standard practice & procedures
(P&P)
Good HRM
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Services are produced and consumed
simultaneously
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Interactions Service provider-Customer
Customer is present while the service is being
produced
Interactions Customer-Customer
Customers interact with each other during the service
production process
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Mktg Implications:
Mass production is difficult
Service provider is part of the product itself and as
essential ingredient in the service experience for the
consumer
Quality depends on interactions between:
- customer service provider
- customer customer
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Suggested Solutions:
Focus on the training and selection of public contact
personnel
Develop strategies to manage consumers
- separate waiting areas (workshop),
minimized interaction SP-C
- by appointment (clinic),minimized interaction C-C
Develop multi-site locations
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Services cannot be saved, resold or returned.
- a seat on an airplane
- an hour of a lawyers time
- badly haircut
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Mktg Implications:
It is difficult to synchronize supply and demand with
services
- because service cannot be inventoried for
future use
Service cannot be returned and resold
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Suggested Solutions:
Good mktg communication strategies
Good pricing strategies
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All human actors who play a part in service
delivery and thus influence the buyers
perceptions; namely the firms personnel,
the customer, and other customers in the
service environment.
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All human actors who play a part in service
delivery and thus influence the buyers
perceptions; namely the firms personnel,
the customer, and other customers in the
service environment.
Employees
The customer
Other customers
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The environment in which the service is
delivered and where the firm and customer
interact, and any tangible components that
facilitate performance or communication of
the service.
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The environment in which the service is
delivered and where the firm and customer
interact, and any tangible components that
facilitate performance or communication of
the service.
Facility design
Equipment
Signage
Employee dress
Others buss. cards,
brochures etc.
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Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
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The actual procedures, mechanism, and flow
of activities by which the service is delivered
the service delivery and operating systems.
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The actual procedures, mechanism, and flow
of activities by which the service is delivered
the service delivery and operating systems.
Flow of activities
Number of steps
Customer involvement