This document defines and provides examples of service marketing. It discusses the unique characteristics of services, including intangibility, perishability, inseparability, and variability. It then outlines the 7 P's of the service marketing mix: product, price, place, promotion, people, physical evidence, and process. For each P, it provides brief explanations and examples related to marketing telecommunication services. The document concludes by suggesting ways to improve customer satisfaction.
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What is service marketing
1. What is Service Marketing?
Examples: Defense, Postal, Education,
health, Religious Services, Hospitals,
Airlines, Hotels, Law Firms, Entertainment,
etc
Definition: Activity or benefit 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
5. Services
Unique characteristic - 4
VARIABILITY
Difficulty in establishing consistency in quality
across Providers or within providers
across Time
across Delivery Centers
6. 7 PS of Service Marketing Mix
Product
Price
Promotion
Place
People
Physical evidence
Process
8. Product decisions
Branding Quality Features
We must remember that Marketing is fundamentally
about providing the correct bundle of benefits to the end
user, hence the saying Marketing is not about providing
products or services it is essentially about providing
changing benefits to the changing needs and demands
of the customer
9. Price....
The prices are being Talk plans
charged in
accordance with:
The charges vary
from region to region. Prices
Roaming
Services
rates
11. Pricing is the only mix which generates
a turnover for the organization.
The remaining Ps are the variable cost
for the organization.
Price must support these elements of
the mix.
Pricing is difficult and must reflect supply
and demand relationship.
12. Promotion....
Promotion
Personal
Advertisement Hoardings Media Publicity Internet
selling
13. Promotion of product
Easy
recharge
Two two
Validity
talk
offer
plan
Promotion
Reducing
VIP nos
rates
14. PLACE
The hutch outlets are being situated
in various places in India which includes
16 states.
It has both postpaid outlets and prepaid
outlets.
15. Physical Evidence.
Before and
After sale
documents
PHYSICAL
EVIDENCE
Sim cards Bills
16. People
People are important because:
Providing a service, rather than selling a product.
Quality of personal relationships between company
and clients becomes vital.
New staff needs thorough training and constant
monitoring.
Staffing costs the highest cost
Recruiting specialist staff time consuming and
expensive.
Strategies and tactics for recruiting, training and
safeguarding relationships.
17. People Include... Higher
managers
Middle managers
Lower managers
Others like:
Technicians
Dealers
Other Employees (BPO Employees)
18. Process
That P of marketing mix
which let customers get the best
of the products.
19. Process of taking a postpaid connection
Go to Hutch Shop
Choose a product (Say Postpaid connection)
Pay the appropriate fees
Take the Respective product (Like SIM Card in this case)
Avail the facilities
Give the feedback
20. Suggestions
The charges should be less
The outlets should be opened in the small
towns also
No. of Hutch PCO should be raised
More schemes should be introduced
Customer satisfaction should be there