The document discusses the 7 P's of marketing as they relate to services. It covers the key aspects of each P:
Product refers to intangible services rather than tangible goods. Price strategies for services include premium, skimming, economy, penetration, bundle, captive, product line, and psychological pricing. Promotion tools include advertising, sales promotion, public relations, direct marketing, and personal selling to create awareness and persuade customers. Place determines where the service will be located both physically and electronically. People refers to employees who interact with customers. Process is how the service is delivered. Physical evidence includes both peripheral elements customers can possess and essential elements they cannot.
The document discusses the 7 P's of marketing as they relate to services. It covers the key aspects of each P:
Product refers to intangible services rather than tangible goods. Price strategies for services include premium, skimming, economy, penetration, bundle, captive, product line, and psychological pricing. Promotion tools include advertising, sales promotion, public relations, direct marketing, and personal selling to create awareness and persuade customers. Place determines where the service will be located both physically and electronically. People refers to employees who interact with customers. Process is how the service is delivered. Physical evidence includes both peripheral elements customers can possess and essential elements they cannot.
The document discusses the 7 P's of marketing as they relate to services. It covers the key aspects of each P:
Product refers to intangible services rather than tangible goods. Price strategies for services include premium, skimming, economy, penetration, bundle, captive, product line, and psychological pricing. Promotion tools include advertising, sales promotion, public relations, direct marketing, and personal selling to create awareness and persuade customers. Place determines where the service will be located both physically and electronically. People refers to employees who interact with customers. Process is how the service is delivered. Physical evidence includes both peripheral elements customers can possess and essential elements they cannot.
The product in service marketing mix is intangible in Bill boards
nature. Hand bills Service products cannot be measured and also it won’t be owned to anyone. Sales Promotion Online banking ===THE PURPOSE OF PROMOTION…=== Prepaid cards 1. To create awareness and; Current & fixed accounts 2. To persuade the target market to buy the product or patronize the service. We can, therefore, conclude that they are all called PRODUCTS. Promotional Tools – promotional tools include advertising, sales promotion, public relations, direct Products are tangible objects that a company sells to marketing, and personal selling. customers for their use of consumption. Advertising is any paid form of non-personal What are the services – services are considered presentation and promotion of ideas, goods, or services different type of purchase ; they involve contact by an identified sponsor between the customer and an employee that provides service. Broadcast Print Price Internet Pricing in case of services is rather more difficult Outdoor than in case of products. - Placement of announcements and persuasive Pricing is important to gain profit for the messages in time or space purchased in any business. mass media by business firms, non-profit Free of charge to open accounts organizations, government agencies and individuals who seek to inform and/or persuade Interest rates members of particular target market or Competitive based strategy audience about their products, services, organizations or ideas ( According to American Place Marketing association). Place in case of services determine where is the ===ITS PURPOSE IS TO…=== service product going to be located. A. To inform customers about a new products, new feature or added benefits of an existing - HSBD having both physical and electronic products. channels B. To persuade customer to buy a product. C. To compare one brand to another. - Banks and ATM machines are physical D. To remind customer of a product time to channels. time. - Online Banking is an electronic channel Sales promotion– is a short-term incentives to Promotion encourage the purchase or sale of a product or service.
is an important part of 7P’s - Discounts
It’ll create the brand name of the business in - Coupons the consumers mind. People used to buy the products by this. - Displays - Demonstration Employees are the first one who makes contact with their customers. Public Relations – building good relationships with the In service marketing people can make or break an company’s various publics by obtaining favourable organization. publicity, building up good “corporate image”, and -Employees behavioural patterns handling or heading off unfavourable rumors, stories towards the customer. and events.
The New Direct Marketing Model PRICING STRATEGY
Direct marketing – consists of direct connections with carefully targeted individual consumers to both obtain Premium Pricing an immediate response and cultivate lasting customer also called image pricing or prestige pricing, is relationships. the practice of keeping the price of one of the - No intermediaries products or service high in order to encourage - An element of a promotion mix favourable perception among buyers. - Fastest-growing form of marketing. Ex. Apple products
Personal Selling is paid personal communication that Price Skimming
attempts to inform customers and persuade them to pricing strategy in which a marketers sets purchase products or services. It usually involves a face- relatively high initial price for a product or to-face communication between the seller and the service at first then lowers the price over time. buyer to “close the sale”. Economy Pricing Physical Evidence sets prices at bare minimum to make a small profit by minimising their marketing and It is generally recognized that physical evidence promotional cost. can be subsidized into two components. Penetration Pricing Peripheral evidence which can be possessed by when the price of the product is initially set low the consumer but has little independent value. to rapidly reach a wide fraction of market and Essential evidence, which cannot be possessed initiate word of mouth. by the consumer but has independent value. Bundle Pricing The peripheral evidence is the prepaid card companies sell package or set of goods or The essential evidence includes bank services for a lower price than they would branches, cash , machines ,poster and charge if the customer bought all of them brochures. separately. Process Captive Pricing Service process is the way in which a service is is any necessary product that must be sold in delivered to the end customer. addition to base product Their procedures are tested before the Are items designed specifically for use with launch of the new current account another product. For example a company that package. makes printers also offers ink catridges for that Bank personnel are to conduct a test to specific model printer. determine how efficient front line Product Line Pricing staffs. Involve the separation of goods and services So therefore, services are delivered directly to into cost categories in order to create the customers. And we experience them in so perceived quality levels in the mind of many ways. consumers. Ex. Hotel rates People Psychological Pricing Are one of the elements of service marketing mix. Is commonly used by marketers in prices they People defined as service. establish for their products. For example 99 pesos is psychological less in the minds of consumers than 100.