Service marketing - Customer Perception

Description
Presentation about service industry expectations in terms of expected service, perceived service in terms of customer gap.

Customer’s Perception of Service

Enduring Service Intensifiers Personal Needs

Explicit service promises Implicit service Promises Word of Mouth Desired Service Past Experience

Transitory Service Intensifiers Perceived service Alternatives Self perceived Service role Situational Factors

Zone of Tolerance

Adequate Service

Predicted Services

Expected Service
CUSTOMER GAP

Perceived Service
Customer Gap is difference between What I thought and What I got

Perceived Service
Perceived service is the assessment of the customer of the quality of the service. Reliability Responsiveness Assurance Empathy Tangibles

Service Quality

Situational Factor

Product Quality

Customer Satisfaction

Price

Personal Factor

What is customer satisfaction?
Satisfaction is the customer’s fulfillment response.

It is a judgment that a product or service itself, provide a pleasurable level of consumption- related fulfillment.

In simple words it is the evaluation of the customer whether that product or service has met their needs and expectations

Service Quality
Service Quality and Customer’s satisfaction go hand in hand

Customer Satisfaction
Apart from Product Quality, Service Quality and Price Situational and Personnel factors includes

Consumer Emotion
Positive frame of mind and Negative frame of mind Happiness, pleasure, elation and sense of warm heartedness enhances the Customer Satisfaction While sadness, sorrow, regret and anger led negative Customer Satisfaction

Perception of Fairness
Customer ask the questions to themselves Have I been treated fairly compared to others? Did other customers get better treatment, better price, better service? Did I pay a fair price for the service?

Every Service quality is assessed from certain Dimensions

Dimensions of Service Quality
Reliability – Delivering on Promises

Ability to perform the promised service, dependably and accurately Responsiveness – Being willing to help
Willingness to help customers and provide prompt service Assurance - Inspiring Trust and confidence Employee’s knowledge and courtesy & ability to inspire trust and confidence Empathy – Treating customer as individuals Caring, individualized attention given to customers Tangibles – Representing service physically Appearance of physical facilities. equipment, personnel and written material

5 Dimensions of Service Quality
Car Repair Airlines Doctor Architect
Reliability Responsiveness Assurance Empathy Tangibles

Customer Satisfaction Index
American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) Features 200 firms 250 interviews with current customer Based on 1. Quality, 2. Value, 3. Satisfaction, 4. Expectations, 5. Complaints and 6.Future Loyalty

Results of ACSI
Most Satisfied with non-durables A bit less satisfied by durables Least satisfied by the services

Relationship between Customer satisfaction and Loyalty

100

Loyalty ( Retention) (%)

80

60

40

20

Very Dissatisfied

Dissatisfied

Neither satisfied Nor Dissatisfied

Satisfied

Very Satisfied

Satisfaction measure

Service Encounters or Moments of Truth (MOT)
The occasion when customer interact with the Service firm First encounter – First impression

Each individual encounter is important in creating a composite image of the firm
“ One bad apple ”ruins rest of encounters Each encounters adds to or detracts from the potential for a continuing relationship

Service Encounters
Industry based encounters

Hotel visit
Check-in Bell person takes to room Restaurant meal Wake-up Call Check out

Service Encounters
Industry based encounters

Industrial Purchase Sales Call Delivery & Installation Servicing

Ordering of Supply
Billing

Types of Service Encounters

Face to face encounter
Most complex, importance on verbal and non- verbal behaviors

Types of Service Encounters

Phone encounters
Judgment of quality – Tone of voice, audio disturbance, employee knowledge, effectiveness in handling customer

Types of Service Encounters

Remote encounter
Non- personal encounter, without human contact – New avenue has opened due to Technological innovations

Service Marketers Strategy
Reducing face to face encounters by increasing telephonic conversion and maximizing the remote encounters

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Sources of Pleasure and Displeasure in Service Encounter
Recording the stories from the customers – Closed MOTs, Open MOTs Recording the stories from the employee – In the shoe of customer, Open MOTs

The stories are analyzed to determine common themes of Satisfaction / Dissatisfaction and are classified as follows

Recovery – Employees response to service delivery system failure
Includes, failure of service delivery, here the employee has to satisfy the disappointed customer

Adaptability – Employee response to customer needs and requests
Includes the special need, demand or request by the customer. Here flexibility in employees approach and systems is at toss. Slight modification in SOP as a special need.

Spontaneity – Unprompted and unsolicited employee actions
No service failure. Employee give good / bad service. e.g. special attention, loyal treatment Receiving something nice without request etc. Against rudeness, dishonest, ignorance etc.

Coping – Employee response to problem customers
Customer themselves were the cause of their dissatisfaction. Such customers are un co-operative, Unwilling to cooperate with the providers, other customers, industry regulation etc.

Service Encounter Theme
Recovery
A gentleman left his shoes outside his room door to be polished. When he went to retrieve them, they were gone and was unable to find them The hotel staff took responsibility and within an hour the dealer of Branded shoes came with the 6 pairs of shoes to select from.

Satisfaction
We had made advance reservations at the hotel. When we arrived we found we had no room. - no explanation, no apologies, no assistance in finding another hotel.

Dissatisfaction

Service Encounter Theme
Adaptability
I didn’t have an appointment to see a Specialist (doctor). However my family Doctor spoke to his assistance and worked me that schedule. I received treatment after 10 mins. I was very satisfied

Satisfaction
My young son, flying alone, was to be assisted by the air – hostess from start to finish. At a changeover air port , she left him alone in the airport with no one to escort him to The connected flight

Dissatisfaction

Service Encounter Theme
Spontaneity
We always travel with our Teddy bears. When we got back to our room at the hotel we saw that the housekeeping staff had arranged Our Teddies were comfortably in a chair, holding hands.

Satisfaction
We went to the 5 star hotel from our day long mountain trek and after a Bungee jump. Looking at our attire the waiter started ignoring us. After several calls came to us and were reluctant to serve us Wine bottle. One of the waitresses said that “we don’t have left hand menu”

Dissatisfaction

Service Encounter Theme
Coping
A person who became intoxicated on a flight started speaking loudly, annoying the other passengers. The flight attendant asked the passenger if he would be driving when the plane landed and offered him coffee. He accepted the Coffee and become quieter and friendlier

Satisfaction
While a family of 3 were waiting to order dinner, the father began hitting his child. Another customer complained about this to the manger who then, in a friendly and sympathetic way, asked the family to leave. The father knocked all of the plates and glasses off the table before leaving.

Dissatisfaction

General Service Behaviors – Do and Don’t
Do
Recovery Acknowledge problem Explain causes Apologize Compensate/upgrade Take responsibility

Don’t
Ignore customer Blame customer / Downgrade Leave customer to “fend for him/herself Act as if nothing is wrong “pass the buck”

Adaptability

Recognize the seriousness of the need Promise, that fells to follow through Anticipate Embarrass the customer Attempt to accommodate Laugh at the customer Adjust the system Avoid responsibility Explain rules/policies “pass the buck” Take time Anticipate needs Listen Provide information Show empathy Listen Try to accommodate Explain Let go of the customer Exhibit impatience Yell/laugh/swear Steal from customers Discriminate Take customer’s dissatisfaction personally Let customer’s dissatisfaction affect others

Spontaneity

Coping

Evidence of Service
•Contract employees •Customer him/herself •Other customers

People

•Operational flow of activities •Steps in process •Flexibility versus standard •Technology versus human

Process

Physical Evidence

•Tangible communication •Servicescape •Guarantees •Technology



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