CHAPTER 7 Flashcards
is the most visible or audible form of marketing activities.
COMMUNICATION
Through communications, marketers explain and promote the value proposition their firm is ____
OFFERING
It should be used intelligently in conjunction with other marketing efforts for maximizing value.
COOMUNICATION
must be viewed with a broader perspective than just media, advertising, public relations, social media and professional salespeople.
COMMUNICATIONS
in one form or another, is essential to a company’s success
MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
represent important ways to add value to a product.
INFORMATION AND CONSULTATION
THE 5 ‘W’S MODEL FOR MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS PLANNING
Who is our target audience?
What do we need to communicate and achieve?
How should we communicate this?
Where should we communicate this?
When should the communication take place?
not usually known in advance
PROSPECTS
It is a potential customer qualified to fit certain criteria outlined by a company based on its business offerings.
PROSPECTS
Employ a traditional communications mix, consisting of elements such as media advertising, online advertising, public relations, and use of purchased lists for direct mail or telemarketing.
PROSPECTS
existing target audience.
USERS
Reach by cross or up-selling efforts by frontline employees, point of sale, promotions, other information distributed during service encounters, and location-based mobile apps.
USERS
Secondary audience
EMPLOYEES
A well-designed communications campaign through public media targeted at customers can also be motivating for employees.
EMPLOYEES
SPECIFYING SERVICE COMMUNICATION OBJECTIVES(WHAT)
a.STRATEGIC SERVICE COMMUNICATIONS OBJECTIVES
b.TACTICAL SERVICE COMMUNICATIONS OBJECTIVES
Include building a service brand, and positioning it and its service products against competition.
a.STRATEGIC SERVICE COMMUNICATIONS OBJECTIVES
Companies use marketing communications to persuade target customers that their service product offers the best solution to meet those customers’ needs, relative to the offerings of competing firms.
a.STRATEGIC SERVICE COMMUNICATIONS OBJECTIVES
Communication efforts serve not only to attract new users but also to maintain contact with an organization’s existing customers and build relationships with them
a.STRATEGIC SERVICE COMMUNICATIONS OBJECTIVES
Relate to shaping and managing customer’s perceptions, beliefs, attitudes, and behavior in any of the three stages of the service consumption process.
b.TACTICAL SERVICE COMMUNICATIONS OBJECTIVES
aligned to the Attention-Interest-Desire-Action (AIDA) and Hierarchy of Effects models.
SERVICE MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS FUNNEL
AIDA stands for?
Awareness, Interest, Desire, and Action,
developed almost a century ago, and holds that persuasion to buy a product occurs over time
AIDA
explains how customers move from cognitive (awareness), to affective (Interest and desire) to behavioral (Action) responses.
AIDA
is used to set up a structured series of advertising message objectives for a particular product, to build upon each successive objective until a sale is ultimately made.
HIERARCH-OF-EFFECTS MODEL
model of how advertising influences a consumers’ decision to purchase or not purchase a product or service.
:The objectives of a campaign are (in order delivery): awareness, knowledge, liking, preference, conviction, and purchase.
HIERARCH-OF-EFFECTS MODEL
3 key sources of messages
- MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS CHANNELS
- SERVICE DELIVERY CHANNELS
- MESSAGES ORIGINATING FROM OUTSIDE THE ORGANIZATION
MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS CHANNELS /Messages transmitted through traditional marketing channels.
- ADVERTISING
-DIRECT MARKETING
-SALES PROMOTION
-PERSONAL SELLING
-PUBLIC RELATIONS
SERVICE DELIVERY CHANNELS
-SERVICE OUTLETS
-FRONTLINE EMPLOYEES
-SELF-SERVICE DELIVERY POINTS
-WEBSITES & APPS
-CORPORATE DESIGN