Week 3: Chapter 2 & 3 Flashcards

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What does the three stage model include?

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  1. Pre-purchase Stage
  2. Service Encounter Stage
  3. Post-purchanse Stage
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Pre-purchase: Decision to buy or use a service is triggered by?

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‘need arousal’

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Pre-purchase: What triggers need?

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  1. Unconscious minds(personal identity and aspirations)
  2. Physical condition (hunger)
  3. External sources (service firm’s marketing activities)
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Pre-purchase: Information search stages

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“Top of mind”

  1. Awareness Set (all the brands in the awareness)
  2. Brands not recalled
  3. Evoked Set (brands recalled)
  4. Consideration set (brands considered)
  5. Brands not considered
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What are the Pre-purchase perceived risks? (7)

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  1. Functional Risk
  2. Financial Risk
  3. Temporal Risk
  4. Physical Risk
  5. Psychological Risk
  6. Social Risk
  7. Sensory Risk
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Pre-Purchase: Functional Risk

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Unsatisfactory Performance
(How do I know they will service my car correctly?)
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Pre-Purchase: Financial Risk

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Monetary loss or unexpected extra costs

I didn’t realise id need to make in-app purchases to play this online game?

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Pre-Purchase: Temporal Risk

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Wasting time, delays

How long will I be waiting in the queue?

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Pre-Purchase: Physical Risk

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Personal injury, damage to possessions

Will the carwash damage my vehicle

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Pre-Purchase: Psychological Risk

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Personal fears, negative emotions

What if I say something wrong in the tutorial

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Pre-Purchase: Social Risk

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How will others think and react

What if no-one ‘likes’ my Facebook page

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Pre-Purchase: Sensory Risk

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Unwanted impacts on the 5 senses

What is the hotel room I book is next to a noisy road

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Pre-purchase: Perceived risk minimisations? (6)

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  • Seeking information from respected personal sources
  • Using internet to compare service offerings and search for independent reviews and ratings
  • Relying on a firm that has a good reputation
  • Looking for guarantees and warranties
  • Visiting service facilities or trying aspects of services before purchasing
  • Asking knowledgeable employees about competing services
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Pre-purchase: List of responses to managing consumers perceptions of risk

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  • Free trial
  • Advertise
  • Display credentials
  • Use evidence management
  • Offer guarantees
  • Encourage visit to service facility
  • Give customers online access about order status
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How to customers evaluate services?

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Customers evaluate services by comparing what they expect against what they perceive

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How do expectations vary?

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Expectations of good service varies between service industries , as well as positioning in the same industry

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17
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Pre-purchase: Define Desired Service Level

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Wished-for level of service

18
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Pre-purchase: Define Zone of Tolerance

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Acceptable range of variations in services

19
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Pre-purchase: Define Adequate Service Level

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Minimum acceptable level of service

20
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Pre-purchase: Define Predicted Service Level

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Service level that customers believes firms will actually deliver

21
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Pre-purchase: Purchase Decision. When is the best option selected?

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When possible alternatives have been compared and evaluated, the best option is selected

22
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When is a decision simple?

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A decision is simple if perceived risks are low and alternatives are clear

23
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Pre-Purchase stage comprises:

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  • New awareness
  • Information search
  • Evaluation of alternative
  • purchase decision
24
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Service Encounter: Contact Level. Define Intangible dominant

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Emphasizers encounters with service personal

25
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Service Encounter: Contact Level. Define Tangible Dominant

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Emphasizers encounters with physical service elements

26
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Service Encounter: Theatre Metaphor Stages

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Service Facilities
- Stage on which drama unfolds
- This may changes from one act to another
Personnel
- Front stage personnel are like members of a cast
- Backstage personnel are production team
Roles
- Like actors, employees have roles to play and behave in specific ways
Scripts
- Specifies the sequences of behaviour for customers and employees

27
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The Sevuction System

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The sevustion system depicts the visible frontage and invisible backstage.
Customer-to-customer interactions occur in the visible frontstage.

28
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Post-purchase stage: satisfaction

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  • Satisfaction is a post-purchase evaluation of the overall service experience.
  • Customers have expectations prior to consumption, observe service performance, compare it to expectations
  • It is emotive and cognitive
29
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Post-Purchase: (Dis)satisfaction

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  • Service performance that does not match specifications
  • Not living up to the levels of performance promised and promoted
  • Not knowing wha the customers expect
  • Management specifying service standards that do not accurately reflect customers expectations
30
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Post-purchase: Beyond Satisfaction. Delight is a function of 3 components

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  1. Unexpectdedly high levels of performance
  2. Arousal (Surprise, excitement)
  3. Positive affect (Pleasure, joy, or happiness)

Delight = raised expectations (ratchet effect)

31
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Why does customer satisfaction matter?

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  • Insulates customers from competition
  • Create sustainable advantage
  • Reduces failure costs
  • Lowers costs of attracting new customers
    Enhances/promotes positive word-of-mouth
  • Encourages repeat patronage and loyalty
32
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What does loyalty =

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Sustained viability of service

33
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Strategies for services

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Wide service offerings + few markets served = market focused

Wide service offerings + many markets served = unfocused (everything for everyone)

Narrow service offerings + few markets served = Fully focused (service and market focused)

Narrow service offerings + Many markets served = Service Focused

34
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What is market segment?

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A market segment is composed of a group of buyers sharing common characteristics, needs, purchasing behaviour, and consumption patterns

35
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Target segments should be selected with references to?

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  • Firm’s ability to match or exceed competing offerings directed at the same segment
  • Not just profit potential
36
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Determinant attributes

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Determinant attributes determine buyers’ choices between competing alternatives

37
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marketing positioning strategy: Market Analysis?

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  • size
  • composition
  • location
  • threats
38
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marketing positioning strategy: Internal analysis

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  • resources
  • reputation
  • constraints
  • values
39
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marketing positioning strategy: Competitive analysis

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  • Strengths
  • weaknesses
  • current positioning
40
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To develop a marketing positioning strategy, you need?

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  1. Market analysis
  2. Internal analysis
  3. Competitor analysis