Learn marketing techniques tailored for service-based businesses and customer retention.

Service Marketing Strategies
Course Features:
  • Language: English
  • Duration: 60 hours (1 month)
  • Learning Mode: Center
  • Jurisdiction: Maharashtra
  • Certificate of Completion

Eligibility
  • Learner should preferably a std. 10th Pass student (Not Compulsory)
  • It is desirable that Learner should have done MS-CIT Course (Not Compulsory)

Introduction

  • Diagnose the traditional and New age marketing techniques and strategies.
  • Discuss the basics of Marketing management, its various theories and methodologies and changes in Indian Market
  • Identify the concepts and importance of Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning of products and services in the Marketing
  • Diagnose the importance to understand the buyer and their behaviour when marketing any product/ services.
  • Examine the process of consumer decision making and the strategies used to understand them.
  • Describe different types of marketing mix used by the marketers to market their product/ services to the customers.
  • Discuss the concept of marketing communications and the factors to be taken into note when communicating with customers.
  • Diagnose the difference between Advertising, Sales Promotion and Public Relations and understanding their timely use and process.
  • Explain the Integrated Marketing Process and the advantage of using it when marketing any products/ services.
  • Identify the importance of Great Indian Middle class, their characteristics effecting the marketing trends.
  • Examine the rise in expectations in marketing and the challenges faced by marketers when promoting ant product/ services.
  • Summarise the process of market research conducted when planning a marketing campaign.
  • Distinguish between Product and services and the strategies and process followed to promote them in the market.
  • Discuss the service marketing strategies, encompassing various methodologies and tactics tailored to the specific goals and target audience
  • Diagnose the effect of technology in service sector and their advantages and disadvantages in upgrading service marketing
  • Classify the different gaps effecting the service sector using GAP Model and the methods to decrease them.
  • Diagnose intricate intertwining of services, technology marketing strategies, characteristics, and marketing mix planning.
  • Discuss the factors effecting the profitability of service sector and the economic and dynamic changes that effect it.
  • Examine the strategies of price discrimination, relative costs, and economies of scale intertwining intricately.
  • Diagnose the service profitability chain, the key elements leading to profitability
  • Explain the interplay between service gaps and service store performance in profit generation.
  • Identify array of marketing strategies to outdo rivals and careers available in their development.
  • Discuss the key drivers in service quality and the evolution of services from time to time.
  • Explain the importance of collaboration and communication with clients, team members, and stakeholders
  • Embrace humanistic, ethical, and moral values in real-life situations
  • Exercise responsibility for the completion of assigned tasks for self and the group work
  • Predict and cater to own learning needs relating to the assigned task/work

What you'll learn ?

  • Compare the changes in marketing techniques of the old and new age along with their effects on the customers.
  • Interpret a vast array of intricate and diverse theories encompassing various principles and methodologies of Marketing Management and their revolutionary effect on the Indian Market.
  • Paraphrase the intricate importance of segmentation, targeting and positioning of products and services in marketing management.
  • Examine the effects of consumer behaviour and understanding customers when marketing any product/ services.
  • Make use of the consumer decision making process when strategizing any marketing plan.
  • Inspect various types of marketing mixes employed by marketers to promote their products/services to customers.
  • Paraphrase the importance of marketing communications in its essence and important factors considered while communicating to target audiences about products, services, or brands to influence their perceptions and behaviours.
  • Differentiate between Advertising, Sales Promotion and Public Relations and use them according to the need of marketing communication.
  • Interpret the Integrated Marketing Process and its uses and advantages when promoting any product/ services.
  • Inspect the characteristics and importance of the Great Indian middle class in Future marketing trends.
  • Inspect the challenges faced by marketers and the different expectations companies have from marketers.
  • Interpret the use of Market Research and the process followed when running a marketing campaign.
  • Compare product and services and various strategies used to promote both in the market.
  • Inspect the intricate interplay between the multifaceted service marketing strategies for achieving sustained business growth and competitive advantage.
  • Interpret the impact of technology on the service sector, as well as its pros and cons in enhancing service marketing.
  • Categorize the various gaps that impact the service sector using the GAP Model and outline strategies to mitigate them.
  • Construct the planning of marketing mix, characteristics, and marketing strategies for services and technology.
  • Interpret the economic and dynamic changes that affect the profitability of the service sector.
  • Observe the intertwining of strategies for price discrimination, relative costs, and economies of scale.
  • Illustrate key elements influence the profit using the service profitability chain.
  • Diagnose the service gaps in service sectors which affect the profitability of a store.
  • Discover the various marketing strategies utilized to compete with competitors and the careers available.
  • Examine the key drivers in service quality that constantly evolve services over time, influencing their progression.
  • Assess appropriate solutions for the challenges presented, while practicing humanistic, ethical, and moral values in real-life situations
  • Develop project management skills to efficiently plan and execute projects
  • make judgment and make decisions, based on the analysis and evaluation of information and work scenarios.
  • Predict and cater to own learning needs relating to the assigned task/work by accessing appropriate learning resources.
  • Pursue self-paced and self-directed learning.

Certification

  • KLiC courses are recognised by Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU).
  • MKCL provides certificate to the KLiC learner after his/her successful course completion.
  • Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU) provides mark sheet to successfully passed KLiC learners (Jurisdiction: Maharashtra).

Academic Approach

The academic approach of the courses focuses on the “work-centric” education i.e. begin with work (and not from a book!), derive knowledge from work and apply that knowledge to make the work more wholesome, useful and delightful. The ultimate objective is to empower the Learner to engage in socially useful and productive work. It aims at leading the learner to his/her rewarding career as an employee or entrepreneur as well as development of the community to which s/he belongs. Learning methodology:

  • Step -1: Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work.
  • Step -2: Learners are exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
  • Step -3: Learners are acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
  • Step -4: Learners are acquainted with the architecture of the tool or tool map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions, utility and inter-relations.
  • Step -5: Learners are exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level.
  • Step -6: Learners perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made industry-standard outputs.
  • Step -7: Learners are engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
  • Step -8: Learners are encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
  • Step -9: After the imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
  • Step-10: Emulation is taken a level further from working with differential skills towards the visualization and creation of a complete output according to the requirements provided. (Long Assignments)
  • Step-11: Understanding the requirements, communicating one’s own thoughts and presenting are important skills required in facing an interview for securing a work order/job. For instilling these skills, learners are presented with various subject-specific technical as well as HR-oriented questions and encouraged to answer them.
  • Step-12: Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression, from self-expression to self-confidence and from self-confidence to self-reliance and self-esteem!

Syllabus

  • Marketing Management Today Introduction
  • Changes in the Indian Markets
  • What is Marketing Management?
  • Marketing Management Continued
  • Factors that Caused Innovations in Marketing
  • The Global Financial Crisis
  • Consumer Behaviour
  • Competition
  • Convergence of Technology
  • Demographic Changes
  • Marketing Orientation & its scope Introduction
  • Relationship Marketing
  • Market Driven Organisations
  • Marketing as a Process
  • Mission
  • Situational Analysis
  • Marketing Plan
  • 4 P’s of Marketing
  • Implementation and Control
  • Netflix Case Study
  • Introduction to Segmentation Introduction
  • Segmentation and Targeting
  • Need for Segmentation
  • Demographic Bases
  • Age Based Segmentation
  • Gender Based Segmentation
  • Income Based Segmentation
  • Socio Economic Pyramid
  • Family Structure and Size
  • Segmentation on Varied Parameters Introduction
  • Segmentation based on product usage
  • Segmentation based on benefits
  • Consumption
  • Decision Criteria
  • Customer Loyalty Based Segmentation
  • Industrial Segmentation
  • Matrix Process of Segmentation
  • Understanding the Buyer Introduction
  • Consumer categorization
  • Zaltman ‘Traps’
  • Buyer- An Enigma
  • What does the consumer buy?
  • Buyer Motivations
  • Buyer Behaviour Introduction
  • Definition- Consumer
  • How to Study Consumer Behaviour
  • Types of Consumer Behaviour
  • Factors that Influence Buyer Behaviour
  • Social Factors
  • Personal Factors
  • Psychological Factors
  • New Emerging Lifestyles of the Urban Consumers
  • Consumer Decision Making Introduction
  • Customer Decision Making
  • Market Value
  • High Involvement Product
  • Problem Identification/ Need Recognition
  • Development of Decision Criteria
  • Search for Alternatives
  • Evaluation of Alternatives
  • Decision
  • Low Involvement Product
  • Introduction to Marketing Mix Introduction
  • 4Ps of Marketing
  • Product
  • Price
  • Place
  • Promotion
  • 7 Ps of Marketing
  • People
  • Process
  • Physical Evidence
  • Marketing Mix – 4Cs
  • Direct Marketing Introduction
  • Types of Direct Marketing
  • Effective use of Direct Marketing
  • Promotional Mix
  • Successful Communication of Promotional Mix
  • Importance of Promotional Mix
  • Steps Involved in Getting the Right Promotional Mix
  • Introduction to Marketing Communication Introduction
  • Marketing Communication
  • Integrated Marketing Communication
  • Communication Process
  • Effective Marketing Communication
  • Message Considerations
  • Media Decisions
  • Promotional Mix Introduction
  • Measuring Effectiveness of Marketing Communication
  • Promotional Mix
  • Selection of Promotional Mix
  • Integrated Marketing Communication and Planning
  • Advertising
  • Advertising Agencies
  • Media Development in India
  • Advertising Decisions Introduction
  • Advertising Decisions
  • Advertising Introduction
  • What is Advertising?
  • Advertising Goals
  • Advertising Industry in India
  • Institutional Framework in Advertising
  • Advantages of Institutional Advertising
  • Disadvantages of Institutional Advertising
  • Role of Advertising Agencies
  • Evaluating Advertising Effectiveness
  • Importance of Evaluating Advertising Effectiveness
  • Online Advertising
  • Advertising, Sales Promotion and Public Relation Introduction
  • Significance of Sales Promotion
  • Objectives of Sales Promotion
  • Steps in Sales Promotion
  • Sales Promotion and Brand Image
  • Definition: Public Relations
  • Types of PR
  • PR Examples
  • Advantages & Disadvantages of Public Relations
  • Importance of Public Relations
  • Marketing Communication and Promotions Introduction
  • Integrated Marketing Communications
  • Benefits of IMC
  • Barriers to IMC
  • Definition: Communication Process
  • AIDA Model
  • IMC Planning Process Introduction
  • Definition: Integrated Marketing Communication
  • The IMC Process
  • Integrated Marketing Communication Plan
  • 6 Steps in the IMC Planning Process
  • Components of IMC
  • 10 Golden Rules of IMC
  • The Great Indian Middle Class
  • Characteristics of the Indian Middle Class
  • Future Consumption Trends
  • Preference of Products and Degree of Connectedness
  • Internet of Things
  • Future Market Trends
  • Issues and Challenges of Marketing in India Introduction
  • Rise in Expectations from Marketing
  • Marketing Challenges
  • 7 Functions of Marketing
  • Marketing Research Process Introduction
  • Market Research Process
  • Problem Definition
  • Research Objective
  • Marketing Research Process Introduction
  • Research Design
  • Source of Data
  • Data Collection
  • Data Analysis
  • Report and Presentation
  • Service and Services Marketing Introduction
  • Definition of Service
  • Types of Processing Services
  • Types of Contact Services
  • Reasons Behind the Growth of the Service Industry
  • Definition of Intangibility of Services
  • Comprehension Round
  • Intangibility Spectrum
  • Features of Services
  • Why Focus on Services
  • Definition of Service
  • Comprehension Round
  • Definition of Service Marketing
  • Classification of Service Marketing
  • Examples of Services
  • Importance and Significance of Service Marketing
  • Problems in Service Marketing
  • Service Marketing Tringle
  • Who uses Services Marketing?
  • Using Services Marketing?
  • Career in Service Marketing
  • Service and Technology Introduction
  • Importance of Payment Gateways
  • Ways in which Service Technology Works
  • Benefits of Technology Enabled Services - Capital Efficiency
  • Flexibility and integration
  • Technology Enabled Services
  • Evolution of communication: Telephone
  • Television Shopping Channels
  • Age of Technology Services
  • The Information Age
  • Evolution from Personal Service to Automation & Self Service
  • The rise in consumer data:
  • Disadvantages of Technology Enabled Services - Loss of Jobs
  • Phishing - Definition of Phishing
  • Explanation of Product
  • Definition of Service Characteristics
  • Example of Service Interaction
  • Old and New Perspective of Service
  • Services and Marketing
  • Goods vs Services
  • Characteristics of Services
  • Intangibility
  • Heterogeneity
  • Solutions to Overcome Challenges in Heterogeneity
  • Inseparability
  • Perishability: Definition and Challenges
  • Services Marketing Mix
  • Traditional Marketing Mix
  • Product
  • Example of Product Development
  • Pricing
  • Place
  • Promotion
  • Extended or Expanded Marketing Mix for Services
  • Old and New Perspective of Marketing Mix
  • Physical Evidence
  • Process
  • People
  • The Seven Ps of Services Marketing
  • Listening and Service Design Gaps Introduction
  • Customer Gap
  • Understanding customer needs: Amazon
  • What is The Listening Gap
  • Listening and Service Design Gaps Introduction: Air BnB
  • Overcoming The Listening Gap
  • Service Design and Standard Gap
  • Management Perception of Customer Expectations
  • Bridging the Listening Gap & Mystery Shopping
  • The service performance gap Introduction
  • Using Services Today
  • Gaps in The Service Industry
  • Example of service Gap
  • Gaps in The Service Delivery
  • Type of Gaps in service Delivery Process
  • Definition of The Service Performance Gap
  • Occurrence of The Service Delivery Gap
  • Deficiency in Human Resources
  • Role Ambiguity
  • Customer Pyramid
  • Factors that Affect Service Performance Gap
  • Services in The Banking Sector: Now and Then
  • Different distribution channel
  • Service gap in train booking
  • Service Offerings by Companies
  • Definition of Customer Expectation
  • Understanding The Gap Model of Service Quality
  • Reducing The Service Performance Gap
  • Definition of Role Ambiguity
  • The Communication Gap
  • Service Performance Gap: In the Wedding Industry
  • Interactive Marketing
  • Key Factors Leading to The Communication Gap
  • Internal and External Communication
  • Engagement
  • Information on False Advertising
  • Case Study on False Advertising
  • 5 Gaps Service Quality Model
  • Bridging The Communication gap: Cadbury
  • Closing The Communication Gap: Strategies and Challenges
  • Five Key Strategies to The Overcome Communication Gap
  • Service Gaps Model: Closing All the Gaps
  • Key Factors Leading to the Communication Gap
  • The Emotional Gap
  • Factors Affecting Profitability - Competition & Product Life Cycle
  • Objective of Firms & Exchange Rate
  • 10 Factors Affecting Restaurants Profits -1
  • 10 Factors Affecting Restaurants Profits -2
  • Definition of Service Profit Chain
  • Links in the Service Profit Chain
  • Key Elements of the Service Profit Chain
  • Dream Team Cycle
  • Digitization Leading to Profitability
  • Definition of Offensive Marketing Strategy
  • Offensive Marketings Strategies
  • Definition of Market Share
  • Example of Offensive Strategies
  • Careers in Offensive Marketing
  • Definition of Defensive Marketing
  • Various Defensive Strategies
  • Who employee defensive marketing
  • Defensive marketing campaign is developed?
  • Careers in Defensive Marketing
  • Definition of Customer Experience
  • Why is the customer experience so important
  • Providing the Right Kind of Customer Experience
  • How to Measure Customer Satisfaction
  • Definition of Profitability
  • NET PROFIT MARGIN – NPM
  • Generalizations
  • Customer Services - Dos
    • Don'ts
  • Definition of Service Quality
  • Why is the customer experience so important
  • Levels of Customer Expectation
  • customer experience
  • measure customer satisfaction
  • Customer Intentions
  • Definition of Loyal Customer
  • Factors of Service Quality
  • Indian Railway Story
  • Service Quality
  • Definition of Service Quality
  • Service Quality: Expectation vs Reality
  • Determinants of Service Quality - Mystery shopping
  • Key Drivers of Service Quality - Reliability
  • Cloud Kitchen
  • Performance Measures in Business
  • Definition of Key Performance Indicators
  • Drawbacks of Using Financial Progress Measures
  • Examples of Non-Financial Business Measures
  • Using Non-Performance Business Measures
  • Ministry Definition Template
  • The History of Distance Learning
  • Education Technology
  • The Technology Behind E-Learning
  • Massive Open Online Courses
  • The Indian Distance Learning Story
  • Advertisement Segment
  • Definition of Services
  • Service Sector of the Indian Economy
  • Classification of Services
  • Consumer Service Marketing
  • Industrial Service Marketing
  • Classification on the Basis of Involvement
  • Classification on the Basis of Service Tangibility
  • Classification on the Basis of Skills and Expertise Required
  • Classification on the Basis of the Business Orientation of the Service  Provider
  • Customer Service and Derived Service

Evaluation Pattern

Evaluation Pattern of KLiC Courses consists of 4 Sections as per below table:

Section No. Section Name Total Marks Minimum Passing Marks
1 Learning Progression 25 10
2 Internal Assessment 25 10
3 Final Online Examination 50 20
Total 100 40
4 SUPWs (Socially Useful and Productive Work in form of Assignments) 5 Assignments 2 Assignments to be Completed & Uploaded
YCMOU Mark Sheet

Printed Mark Sheet will be issued by YCMOU on successful completion of Section 1, Section 2 and Section 3 and will be delivered to the learner by MKCL.
YCMOU Mark Sheet will be available only for Maharashtra jurisdiction learners

MKCL's KLiC Certificate

The certificate will be provided to the learner who will satisfy the below criteria:

  1. Learners who have successfully completed above mentioned 3 Sections i.e. Section 1, Section 2 and Section 3
  2. Additionally, learner should have completed Section 4 (i.e. Section 4 will comprise of SUPWs i.e. Socially Useful and Productive Work in form of Assignments)
    • Learner has to complete and upload minimum 2 out of 5 Assignments

Courses Fee Structure from 01 July, 2025 Onwards

KLiC 60 hour course fee applicable from 01 July, 2025 all over Maharashtra

KLiC Course Duration MFO
(Inclusive of GST)
ALC Share
(Service Charges to be collected by ALC)
60 hours Rs. 500/- Rs. 2,500/-
Important Points:
* Above mentioned fee is applicable for all Modes of KLiC Courses offered at Authorised Learning Center (ALC) and at Satellite Center
* Total fee is including of Course fees, Examination fees and Certification fees
* MKCL reserves the right to modify the Fee anytime without any prior notice

KLiC Courses Fee Structure upto 30 June, 2025

Region Total Fee (Rupees)
MMRDA, PMRDA and Rest of Maharashtra 3000/-
Important Points:
* Above mentioned fee is applicable for all Modes of KLiC Courses offered at Authorised Learning Center (ALC) and at Satellite Center
* Total fee is including of Course fees, Examination fees and Certification fees
* MKCL reserves the right to modify the Fee anytime without any prior notice