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Marketing Services. Unit 9. Marketing properties of services. Experience Search Credence High divergence Credence. Q: How do you get customers to buy services without knowing properties beforehand. Making services contagious. Tipping Point by Gladwell Connectors (p.46)
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Marketing Services Unit 9
Marketing properties of services • Experience • Search • Credence • High divergence Credence Q: How do you get customers to buy services without knowing properties beforehand
Making services contagious • Tipping Point by Gladwell • Connectors (p.46) • Strength of weak ties • Mavens (p. 60) • Salesmen (persuaders) (p.77)
Marketing doesn’t retain customers. Workers do. • Losing-sensitive characteristic Production worker Marketing 9a & 9b: Disney trains hospitality personnel in surrounding businesses to get questions right
Price Guessing • Cost-based • Market-based • Value-based • Standardized-pricing • Signal-pricing
Given them something tangible that they don’t have • Souvenirs of service • T-shirts • Workbooks • Man purse • Pens • Portfolios • Calendar • Promotional gizmos of all kinds Tufte’s $120 worth of books in a $300 seminar