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Service marketing vocabulary

Service marketing vocabulary


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Sprache English
Kategorie Marketing
Stufe Universität
Erstellt / Aktualisiert 18.05.2016 / 14.01.2020
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explain the cycle of mediocrity

- is typically found in large bureaucraties

- service delivery tend to be rule based 

- offering job security but not much scope in the job itself.

- there is no incentive to serve the customer well.

- customer/employee find such organisations frustrating

 

explain the cycle of success

- employees are satisfied with theri jobs and are productive

- hight profit margins allow investments in recruitment and motivation of the right frontline employees

- a lower tunrower allwos to builld up customer relationships 

Which are the key areas service employees need training?

  • Organisational culture, purpose and strategy; focus on getting emoltional commitment to firms strategy
  • Interperonall and technical skills (communication skills like eye contact and attentive listening. technical skills like required knowledge related to processes/product e.g. how to handle return)
  • Product/Service knowledge (able to explain product features)

How to motivate employees (3)?

  • Job content 
  • Feedback and recognition
  • Goal achievement 

Why are customers loyal to service firm? 

  • Relationship can create value for customer 

Factors: inspiring greater confidence, offering special benefits, providing spepial treatment (better prices, discounts), social benefits (friendship)

Three dimensions of fairness (when they complain)

  • procedural justice 
  • interactional justice 
  • outcome justice 

Explain the service recovery paradox 

Customer who experience a failure that is satisfactorily resolved mal be more likely to make future purchase than customers without problems. 

How to enable effective service recovery ? 

  • be proactive and help before customer compain
  • plan recovery procedures and prepear skript for employees
  • teach recovery skills
  • empower personnell to use judgement skills to develope recovery solutions

How to design a effective service guarantee? 

  • unconditional 
  • easy to understand, invoke and collect
  • meaningful to the customer 
  • credible 

What is the power of service guarantees

Service guarantee set clear standards for the firm, and they also reduce customers risk perception and can build long-term loyalty. 

3 priciples of service recovery sytems 

  1. make it easy to give feedback
  2. enable effictive service recovery 
  3. establish appropriate compensation level 

Groups of jaycustumers (how to manage them)

  1. the Cheat - fake returns ar complains
  2. the Thief - no intention to pay
  3. the Rule breaker 
  4. the Belligerent - shouting angrily
  5. the Famliy Feuders - customer argues with customer
  6. the Vandal
  7. the Deadbeat

to delight

erfreuen, gefallen, begeistern 

measurable

messbar, nachweisbar 

How to adjusting capacity to match demand ? 

- use part time employees

- invite customer to self-service

-ask customer to share

- rent extra facilities/equipment 

Why is the customer loyalty important for service firm's profitability? 

The longer cutomer stay in with a firm the more profitable they became. 

The profits derived from loyal customers come from: 

1. increased purchase 

2. reduced operation costs (for instance they need less assistance) 

3. referral of new customers (word-of-mouth is like free advertising)

4. price premiums ( New customers often benefit from inductory discounts)

How to deepen the customer realtionship? 

To make a switch more difficult 

Cross-selling and Bundeling: to have many services with one firm, sometimes bundles do come with price discounts. Bank account+ familiy account+ credit card 

Why is it important to target the right customer? 

  • match what firm can deliver
  • focus on number and value 
  • "right customers" are not always high spenders

Value 

Wert, Nutzen 

proposition 

Angebot, Vorhaben, Absicht, Aussage

referral 

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