Communicating a Service Offering in Cairns
Because services are not touchable, marketing communications for services achieve more than promote services. Communications make services more tangible, and present prospects something firm to consider.
As a result, marketing communications for most services drag around a heavier load than communications for products. A bright red Porsche 911 convertible, for example, shouts loudly and beautifully for itself. Very few services speak for themselves at all.
We implicitly give trust to most products. We trust that our new tyres won’t blow out, our white sugar will taste sweet, and our aspirin will reduce our headaches without bad side effects. But we are far less trusting and certain about most services.
We fret that our solicitors and web designers will toil on our behalf more than necessary, and charge more than is warranted. We worry that the latest weight loss service will be useless, just like the five we have tried before. We worry that our builders will exceed their budget and finish weeks after they promise. We worry that the collection agency we hire for our service will harass our customers 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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