Services Marketing Flashcards
Inadequate Marketing Research Orientation
Provider Gap 1: Not Knowing what customers expect
inadequate use of marketing research
Provider Gap 1: Not Knowing what customer expect
insufficient relationship focus
Provider Gap 1: Not knowing what customers expect
lack of upward communication
Provider Gap 1: Not Knowing what customers expect
Lack of relationship marketing
Provider Gap 1: Not knowing what customers expect
Poor service Design
Provider Gap 2: Not selecting the right quality Design and Standards
Absence of customer-driven standards
Provider gap 2: Not selecting the right quality design and standards
Inappropriate physical evidence and service shape
Provider gap 2: not selecting the right quality design and standards
Deficiencies in HR policies
Provider gap 3: not delivering the service design and standards
Customers who do not fulfill their roles
Provider gap 3: not delivering the service design and standards
problems with service intermediaries
Provider gap 3: not delivering the service design and standards
Failure to match supply and demand
Provider gap 3: not delivering the service design and standards
Inadequate service recovery
Provider Gap 3: not delivering the service design and standards
Lack of integrated marketing communications
Provider Gap 4: not matching performance to promises
Ineffective management of customer expectations
Provider Gap 4: not matching performance to promises
over-promising
Provider Gap 4: not matching performance to promises
Inadequate horizontal communication
Provider Gap 4: not matching performance to promises
transactional expectations
Looking for a solution for an acceptable price
Active relation expectation
looking for opportunities to interact with the company for additional value
passive relation expectation
looking for knowledge that they could easily contact the service provider if needed
(Customer Pyramid) Plat tier
Most profitable customers, heavy users of the product, and not overly price-sensitive
(Customer Pyramid) Gold tier
Profitability is not as high, and are more price-sensitive and not as loyal
(Customer Pyramid) Iron tier
Essential to the firm to provide the volume to utilize firm’s capacity, but spending, loyalty, and profitability are not enough for special treatment
(Customer Pyramid) Lead tier
Cost the company money, demand lots of attention