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Services cannot be stored. This describes the ___________characteristic of services.
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Answer: Option E
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Services cannot be stored. This describes the perishability characteristic of services. Perishability is used in marketing to describe the way in which a service capacity cannot be stored for sale in the future. Services cannot be stored, saved, returned, or resold once they have been used. Once rendered to a customer, the service is completely consumed and cannot be delivered to another customer.
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Examples of pure tangible goods include all of the following EXCEPT:
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Answer: Option B
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Examples of pure tangible goods include all of the following EXCEPT Tax preparation. Marketing a service or intangible product takes creativity because you are trying to sell something a customer cannot physically see, smell, touch or taste. Intangible products and services include things like insurance policies, tax preparation services and cell phone service contracts.
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__________describes the employee’s skills in serving the client.
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Answer: Option D
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Interactive marketing describes the employee’s skills in serving the client. Interactive marketing is a one to one marketing process that reacts and changes based on the actions of individual customers and prospects.
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SSTS refers to __________.
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Answer: Option B
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SSTS refers to Self- Service Technologies. Self-Service Technologies (SSTs) are technological interfaces allowing customers to produce services independent of involvement of direct service employee.
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_____________ occurs when a company intentionally uses services as the stage, and goods as the props, to engage individual customers in a way that creates a memorable event.
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Answer: Option D
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An experience occurs when a company intentionally uses services as the stage, and goods as props, to engage individual customers in a way that creates a memorable event. Commodities are fungible, goods tangible, services intangible, and experiences memorable.
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Top firms audit service performance by collecting _________ measurements to probe customer satisfiers and dissatisfies.
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Answer: Option C
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Top firms audit service performance by collecting voice of the customer measurements to probe customer satisfiers and dissatisfies. Voice of Customer (VoC) is a term widely used in market research, that describes your customer’s feedback about their experience with your products and services.
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The services a customer expects are called the ______service package.
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Answer: Option C
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The services a customer expects are called the primary service package. This is a bundle of services that are sold together as a unit by a company. For example, a cleaning company might sell a basic service package that includes a weekly cleaning for a month.
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The fact that a business traveller may have one very positive check-in experience at a hotel and then a very negative check-in experience with a different employee on a subsequent visit is evidence of service:
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Answer: Option C
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The fact that a business traveller may have one very positive check-in experience at a hotel and then a very negative check-in experience with a different employee on a subsequent visit is evidence of service variability.
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Added features to an offering are called _________ service features.
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Answer: Option E
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Added features to an offering are called perceived service features. Perceived quality can be defined as the customer's perception of the overall quality or superiority of a product or service with respect to its intended purpose, relative to alternatives.
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The intangibility of services has implications for the choice of _________.
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Answer: Option A
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The intangibility of services has implications for the choice of brand elements. There are various Brand Elements which build the brand and creates its identity.