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4.5 A Service Marketing Mix

A Service Marketing Mix

What factors influence a consumer's decision to use a particular service rather than a competitor's service, an alternative service, or no service at all

MARKETING MATTERS The unique characteristics of services make developing a marketing mix for them very challenging

4.5 A Service Marketing Mix

Service Planning and Promotion

Service Planning

Promotion

4.5 A Service Marketing Mix

One effective promotional strategy for services is to draw attention to their tangible elements

How would you feel about a bank you use if the building was hard to find or needed major repairs, or if you could not easily identify someone to help you as you entered?

4.5 A Service Marketing Mix

Endorsements

Word-of-Mouth

Personal Selling

4.5 A Service Marketing Mix

What is a recent example of word-of-mouth mar- keting that you have experienced? What effect did it have (or not have) on you

What is a recent example of an endorsement for a service that you have seen in an advertisement? How effective do you think this endorsement was

What promotional strategies can marketers use to promote services effectively

Pricing and Distribution Services

Price

4.5 A Service Marketing Mix

Another example of bundling is a telecommunications company offering customers a landline telephone

MARKETING SCENARIO Creating a new image for a service provider

What are the reasons why the additional investment of resources will not harm the business

What did the business do to try to ensure that customers accepted this change

What aspect of its marketing mix did the barber shop change

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Distribution

In what ways is a restaurant a good example of how a service business is both the producer and the service provider?

4.5 A Service Marketing Mix

This means that the person who purchases a service receives that service at the same time as it is performed

How are the distribution channels for services different from the distribution channels for products

Why might a company use bundling as a pricing strategy

Why do companies see pricing as being more important today than they did in the past

4.5 A Service Marketing Mix

Explain the pricing strategy known as bundling

Why do service providers often give customers physical items to take with them

Make Academic Connections Ethics

Connect to the Real World You have been hired by a local cleaning service to provide ideas for the creation of cleaning packages that can be sold to businesses