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BM404 Lecture11
BM404 Lecture11
SERVICE
PROMISES
Provider Gap 4
CUSTOMER
Service External
COMPANY Delivery Communications
The to Customers
Communication
Gap
Part 6 Opener
Pricing and services
Lecture 11
Pricing of Services
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Challenges:
1. Monetary price must be adjusted to reflect
the value of non-monetary costs.
2. Information on service costs is less available to
customers; hence, price may not be a central factor.
Four Customer Definitions of Value
Value is everything
Value is low price.
I want in a service.
Value is
everything
I want in a service.
• Prestige pricing
• Skimming pricing
Pricing Strategies When the Customer
Defines Value as Quality for the Price Paid
in service organizations
Present specific strategies for managing promises,
Manage
customer
expectations
Goal:
Manage Delivery is Improve
service greater than customer
promises or equal to education
promises
Manage
internal
marketing
communication
Approaches for Managing
Service Promises
Goal:
Create Coordinate Make Offer Delivery is
effective external realistic service greater than
services communication promises guarantees or equal to
communications promises
Services Advertising Strategies Matched
with Properties of Intangibility
Source: Adapted from B. Mittal, “The Advertising of Services: Meeting the Challenge of Intangibility,” Journal of Service Research, 2, no. 1, August
1999, pp. 98–116.
Approaches for Managing
Customer Expectations
Offer choices
Create tiered-value
offerings
Negotiate
unrealistic
expectations
Goal:
Delivery is
greater than
or equal to
promises
Approaches for Improving Customer
Education
Create
effective vertical
communications
Create
effective horizontal
communications
Align back-office
personnel with
external customers
Create
cross-functional
teams