Communicating a Service Offering in Cairns
Because services are not touchable, marketing communications for services do more than sell services. Communications render services more tangible, and give prospects something firm to measure.
As a result, marketing communications for most services drag around a heavier burden than communications for products. A bright red Porsche 911 convertible, for example, chants loudly and beautifully for itself. Very few services shout for themselves at all.
We implicitly trust most products. We trust that our new tyres won’t blow out, our brown sugar will taste sweet, and our aspirin will cure our headaches without bad side effects. But we are far less trusting and certain about most services.
We worry that our solicitors and web designers will toil on our behalf more than necessary, and charge more than is warranted. We are concerned that the latest weight loss service will fail, just like the four we have tried before. We worry that our builders will extend their budget and finish weeks after they promise. We worry that the collection agency we engage for our service will badger our clients worth keeping and collect only a small part of our outstanding receivables.
So unlike communicating about products, communicating about services must make the service more tangible and real, and must reduce risk for the worried prospect. It’s not like selling Porsche automobiles.
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