Download or read book Understanding Service Consumers written by Jochen Wirtz and published by Ws Professional. This book was released on 2017 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In services marketing, it is important to understand why customers behave the way they do. How do they make decisions about buying and using a service? What determines their satisfaction with it after consumption? Without this understanding, no firm can hope to create and deliver services that will result in satisfied customers who will buy again. Understanding Service Consumers is the first volume in the Winning in Service Markets Series by services marketing expert Jochen Wirtz. Scientifically grounded, accessible and practical, the Winning in Service Markets Series bridges the gap between cutting-edge academic research and industry practitioners, and features best practices and latest trends on services marketing and management from around the world.

Download or read book Understanding Consumer Decision Making written by Thomas J. Reynolds and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume will help business and academic researchers understand the means-end approach to understanding consumers. This is a qualitative marketing research method to gain customer insight into decision making.

Download or read book Understanding Consumer Behavior and Consumption Experience written by Rajagopal and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2015-01-31 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: "This book discusses the indispensable value of understanding consumer activities and the crucial role they play in developing successful marketing strategies by focusing on concepts such as consumer perceptions, consumption culture, and the influence of information technology"--Provided by publisher

Download or read book Who s Buying Who s Selling written by Jennifer S. Larson and published by Lerner Publications ™. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever bought a cold drink at a lemonade stand? Or have you baked cookies for a school bake sale? If so, you’re a consumer and a producer! Consumers, producers, buyers, and sellers all provide things other people want and need. How do they work together in the marketplace? Read this book to find out.

Download or read book Understanding the Consumer written by Isabelle Szmigin and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003-04-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the Consumer brings together marketing theory and practice in a truly consumer-centric approach. It challenges the lip service usually paid to this concept and demonstrates that a fundamental understanding of the consumer is critical to the future of effective marketing. Drawing on cutting-edge developments in the literature it reconceptualizes how consumers respond and act in the marketplace with particular attention to: - relationships with suppliers, products and brands - their innovative, creative and resistant behaviour - the complexity and unpredictability of their consumption behaviour - their increasing need to get closer to production. The book challenges existing functionally driven marketing thinking and shows how a more holistic approach to the marketplace will drive better theory and practice. It combines a jargon-free approach to the subject with an illustration of the relevant theory using practical, topical examples from the marketplace as well as drawing on other business related disciplines including sociology and economics to support its arguments.

Download or read book Understanding Services Management written by William J. Glynn and published by . This book was released on 1995-11-09 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A state-of-the-art services managment guide

Download or read book The Customer Service Solution Managing Emotions Trust and Control to Win Your Customer s Business written by Sriram Dasu and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understand Consumer Psychology to Drive Profits and Growth Want to know exactly what’s driving your customer's behavior? NOW YOU CAN! The Customer Service Solution explains how consumers perceive services and shows you how to enhance the customer experience--every time. In this economic climate, the customer service experience is more critical than ever. Most leading service firms advocate the TLC mantra: Think Like a Customer. That's a good practice, but first you have to understand what your customer is thinking and feeling. Today's business leaders cannot afford to neglect the psychological principles that govern customer satisfaction and long-term loyalty. What are the factors that really determine customer satisfaction? Two of the nation's leading authorities on service psychology, Sriram Dasu and Richard Chase, have written this groundbreaking guide that identifies and demystifies the psychological triggers behind customer behavior. You'll go where customer satisfaction surveys, mystery shoppers, and focus groups can't--and learn exactly why customers respond and behave the way they do. With findings drawn from behavioral science research, this book provides all the tools you need to evaluate your current service platforms and design future strategies to enhance customer perceptions positively and drive your sales. The Customer Service Solution illustrates why even companies with high levels of satisfaction are missing tremendous opportunities by neglecting the emotional elements that govern consumer interactions. This book will show you how to: Shape and manage customer perceptions Understand implicit versus explicit outcomes Develop the roles of control and choice among buyers Design emotionally intelligent processes Build trust among customers Whatever your business may be--healthcare, hospitality, financial services, e-commerce, and more--this book is an essential tool to help you increase profits by leveraging your company's customer experience. PRAISE FOR THE CUSTOMER SERVICE SOLUTION: "Harnessing the power of emotions will help to drive an exceptional customer experience creating customers for life to help your business thrive. Finally, a guide to help us better understand how to do this." -- James Merlino, MD, Chief Experience Officer, Cleveland Clinic "Required reading for anyone designing a service encounter." -- James Heskett, Professor Emeritus, Harvard Business School, coauthor of The Service Profit Chain and Service Future "I have always known that our customers shop with us because they want to, not because they have to. How to make them want to is the secret that this great book unlocks." -- Kevin Davis, President and CEO, Bristol Farms "[Dasu and Chase] share easy-to-understand ideas and guidance to operations managers who typically do not think about the psychology of customers in designing their services." -- Mary Jo Bitner, PhD, Professor and Executive Director, Center for Services Leadership, W. P. Carey School, Arizona State University "Dasu and Chase provide an excellent set of ideas for delivering emotional customer service experiences through systems and operations." -- Rodolfo Medina, Vice President, Marketing & Commercial, Rock in Rio "This book provides valuable insights to managing and molding the customer's emotional journey, leading to ultimate satisfaction and sustainable loyalty." -- Ali V. Kasikci, Regional Managing Director, Orient-Express

Download or read book Understanding the Hospitality Consumer written by Alastair Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Understanding the Hospitality Consumer' presents a unique perspective on consumer behaviour in the hospitality sector. It seeks to focus on the role of consumption in hospitality and to investigate our understanding of its place in the contemporary industry. Taking the view that successful marketing demands focusing on the customer, this text concentrates on understanding and determining customer needs, relevant factors in consumer buying behaviour and the effectiveness of today's marketing techniques. Using industry based case studies and examples 'Understanding the Hospitality Consumer' : * Introduces and explores the role of consumer behaviour theory in the context of hospitality management * Discusses the principles and research of consumer behaviour and illustrates how they are used in the hospitality industry today * Examines the value of consumer behaviour research as applied to the contemporary hospitality industry * Explores the challenges to traditional approaches to consumption posed by the postmodern hospitality consumer The book's targeted focus and practical application ensures that it is well suited for both students and practising managers in the hospitality field.

Download or read book The Effortless Experience written by Matthew Dixon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows that the best way to create customer loyalty is with service so good, so over the top, that it surprises and delights. But what if everyone is wrong? In their acclaimed bestseller The Challenger Sale, Matthew Dixon and his colleagues at CEB busted many longstanding myths about sales. Now they’ve turned their research and analysis to a new vital business subject—customer loyalty—with a new book that turns the conventional wisdom on its head. The idea that companies must delight customers by exceeding service expectations is so entrenched that managers rarely even question it. They devote untold time, energy, and resources to trying to dazzle people and inspire their undying loyalty. Yet CEB’s careful research over five years and tens of thousands of respondents proves that the “dazzle factor” is wildly overrated—it simply doesn’t predict repeat sales, share of wallet, or positive wordof-mouth. The reality: Loyalty is driven by how well a company delivers on its basic promises and solves day-to-day problems, not on how spectacular its service experience might be. Most customers don’t want to be “wowed”; they want an effortless experience. And they are far more likely to punish you for bad service than to reward you for good service. If you put on your customer hat rather than your manager or marketer hat, this makes a lot of sense. What do you really want from your cable company, a free month of HBO when it screws up or a fast, painless restoration of your connection? What about your bank—do you want free cookies and a cheerful smile, even a personal relationship with your teller? Or just a quick in-and-out transaction and an easy way to get a refund when it accidentally overcharges on fees? The Effortless Experience takes readers on a fascinating journey deep inside the customer experience to reveal what really makes customers loyal—and disloyal. The authors lay out the four key pillars of a low-effort customer experience, along the way delivering robust data, shocking insights and profiles of companies that are already using the principles revealed by CEB’s research, with great results. And they include many tools and templates you can start applying right away to improve service, reduce costs, decrease customer churn, and ultimately generate the elusive loyalty that the “dazzle factor” fails to deliver. The rewards are there for the taking, and the pathway to achieving them is now clearly marked.

Download or read book Understanding Customers written by Alexander Chernev and published by Cerebellum Press. This book was released on with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding customer decisions and behavior is the starting point for identifying market opportunities and formulating a company’s marketing strategy. Without understanding the needs customers aim to fulfill, the ways in which they evaluate the available alternatives that can fulfill these needs, and the decision processes they use to choose among these alternatives, a company is unlikely to succeed in developing an offering that will be embraced by its target customers. Understanding the customer decision journey and the key factors that drive customer behavior is the focus of this note. The discussion of understanding the customer is complemented by an in-depth overview of three additional topics: Maslow’s theory of human needs, the process of joint decision making, and decision heuristics and biases. This note is an excerpt (Chapter 4) from Strategic Marketing Management: Theory and Practice by Alexander Chernev (Cerebellum Press, 2019).

Download or read book Customer Centricity written by Peter Fader and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not all customers are created equal. Despite what the tired old adage says, the customer is not always right. Not all customers deserve your best efforts: in the world of customer centricity, there are good customers...and then there is pretty much everybody else. Upending some of our most fundamental beliefs, renowned behavioral data expert Peter Fader, Co-Director of The Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative, helps businesses radically rethink how they relate to customers. He provides insights to help you revamp your performance metrics, product development, customer relationship management and organization in order to make sure you focus directly on the needs of your most valuable customers and increase profits for the long term.

Download or read book Electronic Commerce written by Richard T. Watson and published by Orange Grove Texts Plus. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook provides a strategic marketing and managerial perspective of electronic commerce. The research of the four authors provides the basis for the book, allowing for first-hand experience, varied viewpoints, and relevance. Contents: 1) Electronic commerce: An introduction. 2) Electronic commerce technology. 3) Web strategy: Attracting and retaining visitors. 4) Promotion: Integrated Web communications. 5) Promotion & purchase: Measuring effectiveness. 6) Distribution. 7) Service. 8) Pricing. 9) Post-Modernism and the Web: Societal effects.

Download or read book Essentials of Services Marketing 3e written by Wirtz and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a comprehensive view of a field that is evolving at an unprecedented pace, Essentials of Services Marketing, Third Edition, is a concise, reader-friendly guide to marketing and managing services. Encompassing pioneering service concepts and the latest developments, academic research as well as managerial insights, this book combines a practical, real-world focus with rich visual pedagogy to present an engaging and exciting look at the world of the service economy. Features: • The book uses a systematic learning approach. Each chapter has clear learning objectives, an organizing framework that provides a quick overview of the chapter’s contents and line of argument, and chapter summaries in bullet form that condense the core concepts and messages of each chapter. • Opening vignettes and boxed inserts within the chapters are designed to capture student interest and provide opportunities for in-class discussions. They describe significant research findings, illustrate practical applications of important service marketing concepts, and describe best practices by innovative service organizations. • Contains the most relevant contexts of services marketing based on the Indian perspective in the form of relevant examples, theoretical questions, practical exercises, activities and references. • A simple demonstration of concepts with appropriate figures/images for better understanding. • The book also shares an overview of other global services marketing aspects along with examples in a lucid manner. Table of Contents: Part I: Understanding Service Markets, Products, and Customers Chapter 1: Introduction to Services Marketing Chapter 2: Consumer Behavior in a Services Context Chapter 3: Positioning Services in Competitive Markets Part II: Applying the 4 Ps of Marketing to Services Chapter 4: Developing Service Products and Brands Chapter 5: Distributing Services through Physical and Electronic Channels Chapter 6: Setting Prices and Implementing Revenue Management Chapter 7: Promoting Services and Educating Customers Part III: Managing the Customer Interface Chapter 8: Designing Service Processes Chapter 9: Balancing Demand and Capacity Chapter 10: Crafting the Service Environment Chapter 11: Managing People for Service Advantage Part IV: Developing Customer Relationships 389 Chapter 12: Managing Relationships and Building Loyalty Chapter 13: Complaint Handling and Service Recovery Part V: Striving for Service Excellence Chapter 14: Improving Service Quality and Productivity Chapter 15: Building a World-Class Service Organization Part VI: Cases

Download or read book Online Consumer Psychology written by Curtis P. Haugtvedt and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005-03-23 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Online Consumer Psychology addresses many of the issues created by the Internet and goes beyond the topic of advertising and the Web to include topics such as customization, site design, word of mouth processes, and the study of consumer decision making while online. The theories and research methods help provide greater insight into the processes underlying consumer behavior in online environments. Broken into six sections, this book: focuses on community and looks at the Internet's ability to bring like-minded individuals from around the world into one forum; examines issues related to advertising, specifically click-through rates and advertising content placed within gaming online and wireless networks; provides readers with reasons why consumers customize products and the benefits of customization; discusses the psychological effects of site design; asks the question of whether the Internet empowers consumers to make better decisions; and discusses research tools that can be used online.

Download or read book Understanding Vulnerable Stigmatized and Marginalized Consumers in Service Settings written by Rebekah Russell-Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Understanding and Managing Customers written by Isobel Doole and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2005 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive textbook provides an easy introduction to the subject of customers and ensures that the needs of business students will be met in an up-to-date and innovative manner.

Download or read book The Service Encounter written by John A. Czepiel and published by Free Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: