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Marketing Your Service Business [Minkštas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 280 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm, diagrams
  • Išleidimo metai: 24-Nov-2005
  • Leidėjas: Thorogood
  • ISBN-10: 1854183168
  • ISBN-13: 9781854183163
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 280 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm, diagrams
  • Išleidimo metai: 24-Nov-2005
  • Leidėjas: Thorogood
  • ISBN-10: 1854183168
  • ISBN-13: 9781854183163
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
Services and Service Products are by their nature different from Goods - and require a different marketing approach. Compared to Goods, Services are more intangible, performance-oriented, closely tied to people and relationships. The author builds on his previous book Mastering marketing to examine the key differences between the marketing of products based on goods versus those which are based on services- or which use services to gain a competitive advantage. The book uses current real life examples to illustrate the ideas discussed - in practice. Icons are used throughout - Key concepts, Key questions, Key learning points, Action check lists. Each chapter ends with an exercise to help readers apply the content to their own business. The book ends with a sample workbook for use in training staff in Customer Service.
Introduction 1(5)
ONE Why service? Fostering the firm's most valuable asset 6(24)
Introduction
6(1)
The 'relationship concept'
6(6)
The traits of 'excellence'
12(1)
Marketing - a useful definition
13(2)
Customers: The key questions
15(10)
Exercise
25(5)
TWO What is a service? 30(16)
Introduction
30(1)
The characteristics that differentiate a service
30(9)
The extended service mix
39(3)
Exercise
42(4)
THREE The why and where of service 46(12)
Introduction
46(1)
The service spectrum: Classifying a service
46(1)
The proportion of 'service' in the 'product'
47(9)
Exercise
56(2)
FOURE Competing in time (CIT) 58(14)
Introduction
58(1)
Time - the only objective measure
58(1)
The five flavours of time
59(7)
Technology: Pull versus push
66(4)
Exercise
70(2)
FIVE The service product and its positioning 72(28)
Introduction
72(1)
Positioning the service product
73(1)
Introducing the 'Levitt Construct Tool'
73(6)
Exercise
79(4)
The model applied elsewhere
83(3)
The fundamentals of positioning a service product
86(5)
Coping with emulation
91(4)
Feedback - taxi exercise
95(5)
SIX Service is a people business 100(12)
Introduction
100(1)
A people based business
100(6)
The service triangle
106(4)
Exercise
110(2)
SEVEN Making the service tangible 112(28)
Introduction
112(1)
How to 'tangibilise' a service
113(8)
The dimensions of physical evidence
121(16)
Exercise
137(3)
EIGHT Process (delivering the service) 140(26)
Introduction
140(1)
Focus on the experience
141(3)
Focus on the performance
144(1)
The Lovelock Matrices
145(17)
Exercise
162(4)
NINE Managing service resources 166(16)
Introduction
166(1)
Resource dilemma - capacity constraint
166(4)
The conflicting issues
170(8)
Exercise
178(4)
TEN Segmenting a service market 182(18)
Introduction
182(1)
Segmentation: Why do it?
183(7)
General approach - the method
190(7)
Exercise
197(3)
ELEVEN Promoting a service 200(24)
Introduction
200(1)
Editorial publicity
201(3)
Generating editorial publicity
204(4)
The HCA calendar
208(2)
Communication channels for editorial publicity
210(5)
Networking and making connections
215(5)
Exercise
220(4)
TWELVE Pricing a service 224(18)
Introduction
224(1)
Executive multiplier considerations
224(2)
Price as an indicator of service quality
226(1)
Basic pricing strategies
227(3)
Specific strategies for service pricing
230(2)
Cost structure considerations for pricing services
232(3)
Implications of the overhead to variable cost ratio (OHNC)
235(4)
Implications of OH/VC ratios on resource capacity strategies
239(1)
Exercise
239(3)
THIRTEEN Seriously seeking the feedback 242(13)
Introduction
242(1)
Categories of information
243(1)
Secondary data via 'desk research'
244(2)
Primary information via field research
246(2)
Market/customer information systems
248(6)
Exercise
254(1)
INDEX 255


Ian Ruskin-Brown is a highly experienced consultant with an international client list. From 1984 to 1998 he was Course Director for the Chartered Institute of Marketing's courses on Marketing in the Service Sector. He currently runs the Marketing your Services course for Management Centre Europe.