Services Marketing - Hardcover

Zeithaml, Valarie; Bitner, Mary Jo; Gremler, Dwayne

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ISBN 10: 0072961945 ISBN 13: 9780072961942

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2005

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Services Marketing, 4/e, by Zeithaml and Bitner provides a comprehensive review and analysis of services marketing issues, practice, and strategy. Utilizing the GAPS Model of Service Quality as an organizing framework the structure of the text offers part openers that sequentially build the model gap by gap. Each part of the book includes multiple chapters with strategies for understanding and closing the critical gaps. Customer behavior, expectations, and perceptions are discussed early in the text to form the basis for understanding services marketing strategy and the managerial content, in the rest of the text, is framed by the GAPS model. Additionally, the authors continue to refine conceptual frameworks for developing effective services marketing strategy and have incorporated more coverage of the use of technology and business-to-business applications in this edition.

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Greater emphasis on the topic of service quality than existing marketing and competing service marketing textbooks. The quality of the service and the ability to measure that quality is more important to companies today as they strive for a sustainable competitive advantage which will increase customer loyalty.
Increased focus on customer expectations and perceptions and what they imply for marketers. Companies are interested in what customers expect so that they can be sure to develop and deliver a service which the customer will value.
An entirely new chapter on service recovery that includes a conceptual framework for understanding the topic. This coverage was added in response to customer feedback .
An entirely new chapter on the financial and economic impact of service quality.
Coverage of new service development processes and a detailed and complete introduction to service blueprinting'a tool for describing, designing and positioning services
All new global feature in each chapter. This feature highlights a global services marketing example and demonstrates to the reader how the concepts addressed apply to situations world-wide.
New Internet exercises in each chapter help to illustrate the role and the impact the World Wide Web has on service marketing.
Cross-functional treatment of issues through integration of marketing with other disciplines such as operations and human resources. This coverage reinforces the strong role that teams play in the business world and specifically in developing and marketing a service.
An entire chapter that recognizes human resource challenges and human resource strategies for delivering customer-focused services.
A chapter on customer-defined service standards. This chapter is well-liked by our customers and is unique.
Fully updated technology spotlights in each chapter highlight the role technology plays in Services Marketing.
The text continues to offer coverage of consumer-based pricing and value pricing strategies. Our readers will learn how to price a service.
Introduction of three service Ps to the traditional marketing mix and increased focus on customer relationships and relationship marketing strategies. This coverage reinforces the role that relationship marketing plays in marketing a service.
Little repetition of principles of marketing; while some chapters include a concise overview of principles from basic marketing textbooks. In most cases, standard content on topics such as distribution, pricing, and promotion have been adjusted to account for service differences of intangibility, heterogeneity, inseparability and perishability.
New marketing topics from the business world are introduced. This textbook introduces students to entirely new topics that include management and measurement of service quality, service recovery, the linking of customer measurement to performance measurement, and cross-functional treatment of issues through integration of marketing with disciplines such as operations and human resources. Each of these topics represents pivotal content for tomorrow's corporations as they structure around process rather than task, engage in one-to-one marketing, mass customize their offerings, and attempt to build strong relationships with their customers.
A new chapter on integrated services marketing communications. This chapter helps the students to see the role integrated marketing planning has when developing and marketing a service.
Marketing a service is similar to marketing a good product. Basic marketing techniques do apply. However, the authors recognize a need for additional tools and techniques, which are specific to marketing a service. This text will help the reader to develop skills that are specific to marketing a service.

About the Author:

Valarie Zeithaml is an award-winning teacher and researcher, and an internationally recognized pioneer of services marketing. Dr. Zeithaml has researched customer expectations in more than 50 industries. She has consulted with service and product companies, including IBM, Kaiser Permanente, GE, John Hancock Financial Services, Aetna, AT&T, Metropolitan Life Insurance, Bank of America, Chase Manhattan Bank, Allstate, and Procter and Gamble.For her work that is influencing the future direction of marketing, she was named a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher in the report on "The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds."The American Marketing Association (AMA) named her a Marketing Legend in 2016. She was selected for its inaugural cohort of AMA Fellows for her significant contributions to the research, theory and practice of marketing and service to the AMA in 2015.In 2008, the AMA awarded her with the Paul D. Converse Award, which is granted every four years to individuals who have made outstanding and enduring contributions to marketing through journal articles, books or a body of work. She received the AMAs Career Contributions to the Services Discipline Award in 2001.She received both the Innovative Contributor to Marketing Award from the Marketing Management Association and the Outstanding Marketing Educator Award from the Academy of Marketing Science in 2004.Dr. Zeithaml is the author or co-author of seven prized books, including Driving Customer Equity: How Customer Lifetime Value is Reshaping Corporate Strategy, Delivering Quality Service: Balancing Customer Perceptions and Expectations, and this best-selling textbook. She received her PhD and MBA from the University of Maryland, and her BA from Gettysburg College.

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