Services Marketing
Unit 4
Positioning of services – Designing service
delivery System, Service Channel – Pricing of
services, methods – Service marketing triangle -
Integrated Service marketing communication.
Designing a Service Concept
• Core Product
– Central component that supplies the principal,
problem-solving benefits customers seek
• Supplementary Services
– Augment the core product, facilitating its use and
enhancing its value and appeal
• Delivery Processes
– Used to deliver both the core product and each of
the supplementary services
Core and Supplementary Product
Design: An Integrated Perspective
Documenting Delivery Sequence Over
Time
• Must address sequence in which customers will use
each core and supplementary service
• Determine approximate length of time required for
each step
• Customers may budget a specific amount of time for
an activity
• Information should reflect good understanding of
customers, especially their:
– Needs
– Habits
– Expectations
Core and Supplementary Services at
Luxury Hotel
What Happens, When, in What Sequence?
Time Dimension in Augmented Product
Flowcharting Service Delivery Helps to
Clarify Product Elements
• Offers way to understand totality of customer’s
service experience
• Useful for distinguishing between core product
itself and service elements that supplement core
– Restaurants: Food and beverage (core)
– Reservations (supplementary services)
• Shows how nature of customer involvement with
service organizations varies by type of service:
– People processing
– Possession processing
– Mental Stimulus processing
– Information processing
Service Marketing Triangle
Service Marketing Triangle

Service Marketing

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    Services Marketing Unit 4 Positioningof services – Designing service delivery System, Service Channel – Pricing of services, methods – Service marketing triangle - Integrated Service marketing communication.
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    Designing a ServiceConcept • Core Product – Central component that supplies the principal, problem-solving benefits customers seek • Supplementary Services – Augment the core product, facilitating its use and enhancing its value and appeal • Delivery Processes – Used to deliver both the core product and each of the supplementary services
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    Core and SupplementaryProduct Design: An Integrated Perspective
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    Documenting Delivery SequenceOver Time • Must address sequence in which customers will use each core and supplementary service • Determine approximate length of time required for each step • Customers may budget a specific amount of time for an activity • Information should reflect good understanding of customers, especially their: – Needs – Habits – Expectations
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    Core and SupplementaryServices at Luxury Hotel
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    What Happens, When,in What Sequence? Time Dimension in Augmented Product
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    Flowcharting Service DeliveryHelps to Clarify Product Elements • Offers way to understand totality of customer’s service experience • Useful for distinguishing between core product itself and service elements that supplement core – Restaurants: Food and beverage (core) – Reservations (supplementary services) • Shows how nature of customer involvement with service organizations varies by type of service: – People processing – Possession processing – Mental Stimulus processing – Information processing
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