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THE 7 PS OF SERVICES MARKETING

4 P’s

Product Price Place Promotion Process Physical Environment People

7 P’s

PEOPLE

- People who create and deliver the service are critical


for the success of the service organization.

-That is why service organizations have a special focus on


the people who provide the service. This is related to the
concept of internal marketing. 

INTERNAL MARKETING refers to how an organization must care for and treat their employees, since the employees are the key
to providing the best service to its customers.

Organizations must treat their employees like valued customers.

INTERNAL MARKET refers to the employees of the organization. Successful marketing strategies start with the satisfaction of
employees before reaching out to the customers.

Physical Evidence
Process -

Demand and Capacity Need to be Balanced

THE THREE-STAGE MODEL OF SERVICE CONSUMPTION


Service consumption can be divided into three main stages.

They are the ff:

1. Prepurchase,

2. Service Encounter

3. Post-encounter Stages

A. Pre-Purchase Stage

I. Awareness of Need

a. Subconscious mind b. Physical Conditions c. External Sources

II. Information Search

-Customer commonly tries the following factor when in need of satisfaction

a. Fanciness b. Newly established c. Promotion d. Availability


III. Evaluation of Alternatives

Multi-attribute model

IV. Customer Expectation

Desired Service

Adequate Service

Predicted Service

V. Purchase Decision

- Most of the customer are satisfied to what is just available.

(Can’t even assess the Price and Quality of a product/service)

- If a customer already has a supplier, he/she will not probably consider any other better
supplier.

- Tradeoffs

B. SERVICE ENCOUNTER STAGE

- SERVICE TOUCH POINTS (should be managed well)

- HIGH / LOW CONTACT SERVICE MODEL

-SERVUCTION MODEL
-SERVUCTION MODEL

– Combination of Service and Production

- It is how customer interact with the following:


a. Service Environment
b. Service Employees
c. other customers who are present during the service encounter

- Each type of interaction can create value (pleasant environment, friendly and competent
employees or other customer who are interesting to observe)

The Servuction system.

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