Service Marketing For Ingogo

This assignment discusses the incident faced by a customer while using Ingogo cab services and provides a service recovery plan for the organization. It also includes recommendations for attaining customer loyalty.

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Executive Summary
Service marketing is a practice that facilitates in conveying the messages of the organization to
the customers that also builds the image of the organization in the eyes of the customers. The
process of service marketing requires to examine and analyze the needs and desires of the
customers. It is a crucial process because it helps in delivery customer expectations, which
further helps in gaining customer loyalty. Now, if the organization fails to fulfills the customer
expectations then there is an urgent need for developing a recovery plan for the organization. In
this assignment, a recover plan is being formulated for the organization Ingogo, for the service
failure they had a few days back.

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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Analysis of the Incident...................................................................................................................4
Service Recovery Plan For Ingogo..................................................................................................8
Recommendations for Attaining Customer Loyalty at Ingogo......................................................11
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................12
References......................................................................................................................................14

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Introduction
The convenience that the emerging cab service companies have added to everyone’s lives
is immense. For me, these cab services are very beneficial during the weekends when I go
partying with my friends. I prefer to take the cab ride as I don’t drive after drinking. Now, a few
days back, I took a cab ride at midnight from the Retro Nightclub on Sussex Street to my home
in the Bondi, Sydney. I booked a cab through the Ingogo services who promises a fixed fare to
ride. The cab driver arrived 20 minutes late. When I get into the cab it was stinking and when I
asked the driver to do, something about it he ignored me. I continued with my work on my
mobile and then suddenly, I hear some erotic noises. I looked up at the driver and he was
watching a porn on his mobile at full volume. I was shocked at this behavior of the driver. I
asked him to turn it off, but he didn’t listen. He did lower down the volume, but he continued
watching. Throughout my trip, I was uncomfortable and could not imagine the audacity of this
person who was watching an adult video in the presence of a customer. When I arrived at my
place the charges that were originally $30 were escalated to $50. When I asked the driver about
this hike, he asked me, not to waste his time and shouted at me. I did not want to create a scene
in the middle of the night so, I handed him the money and left. I registered a complaint on their
twitter account, but they did not reply. I called their customer care and they kept me on hold for
fifteen minutes before ending my call.

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Analysis of the Incident
Ingogo is an organization that provides cab services at a fixed rate. The incident that
happened to me did not justify the company’s tagline of providing cab services at a fixed rate.
There is a decorum which has to be maintained in the presence of a customer and in handling the
customer. The behavior of the driver is completely unacceptable and this displays the poor
workforce that the organization Ingogo has. According to a popular service theory, that is, the
GAP theory, the gaps that have been recognized in this complete incident are delivery gap and
communication gap (Bai and Wang, 2012). The delivery gap has been identified due to the
promises that the organization made to the customers, to provide a safe ride in fixed wages. The
driver made me uncomfortable due to his obnoxious activity and furthermore the organization
charged more than the expected fare. The communication gap has been identified in the reaction

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of the organization to the complete incident. The organization did not revert back to make an
apology or to just notify the victim that this type of behavior will not be tolerated. Both these
gaps clearly state that the organization requires some major changes that are important for
delivering a good customer experience (Bashir, Yousaf and Verma, 2016).
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In this complete incident, the instrumental complaint has been identified and in this
incident I was the high roller customer. The instrumental complaint is identified with the
approach that such situations should never occur again with other customers and the organization
should improve their standard of quality. The instrumental complaint required to be taken into

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account and the organization has to recognize the root cause of the problem and make the
necessary improvements. The root cause of the incident is the unskilled and mannerless staff that
the organization has hired. The attitude of the organization is also very irresponsible. The driver
has the audacity to watch an explosive video in front of the customer, says a lot about the values
and beliefs that are spread in the organization. The fact that the organization completely ignored
the complaint that was pertaining to such a serious matter, displays that the organization who is a
service provider company, does not care about their customers (Belwal, Minhans and Al-
Balushi, 2013).
For knowing the value of the service quality the SERVQUAL measuring scale is utilized
in this incident. The measuring scale SERVQUAL has five components according to which the
incident will be measured. This will provide with the information that will be analyzed to know
that the company has been able to fulfill the customer expectations or not. This will also help in
understanding the gaps in the services of the organization- .
SERVQUAL Components SCORE OF INGOGO (OUT OF 10)
Reliability 3
Responsiveness 2
Empathy 0
Tangibles 2
Assurance 1

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Service Recovery Plan For Ingogo
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According to many studies, this has been known that if an organization who fails to fulfill the
customer expectations and disappoints the customer. But after that the organization works on its
flaws and deliver good customer experience, then the customer will rank this organization more
in comparison to the organization who will deliver good customer experience at first attempt.
The organization Ingogo is need of a recovery plan and this will require examination of certain
processes. They are-
 Problem Identification

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It is essential to examine the root cause of the issues in the organization. Service
failure identification can be broadly divided into four elements that are, failure of
customer needs and requests, uncertain actions of the employee, a system failure of
service delivery and an aggressive customer. The key issue that has been identified in the
organization Ingogo is the unskilled staff and the lack of knowledge about customer
experience. The inadequate and unethical behavior of the staff and the especially the
driver led to lower customer expectations (Carpio, 2015).
 Service Failure Attribute
The root issue that id identified in the organization is the untrained and less
knowledgeable staff, who do not have the skills to handle the customer and deliver them
quality services. The service failure attribution is conducted in the following ways-
 Locus (Who is really responsible?)
The key person who should be held responsible for the unethical and the
indecent behavior in this incidence is the organization. The organization has not
hired a trained staff and neither have they given a proper training to the staff, who
knows how to handle a customer and the basic norms that have to be followed by
every staff towards the customers (Yang, Yang and Wong, 2012).
 Stability (stable or unstable?)
The chances of such incidence to repeat with other customer are very high,
if the organization does not take actions instantly. The entire staff has to get
trained and this is an urgent practice in the organization. The organization also has
to become active towards addressing the complaints of the customers, timely.
 Controllability (can or can’t?)

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The issue can be rectified and the situation can be brought under control, if
Ingogo conducts the essential actions instantly and implicate certain alteration in
the working style of the organization then there are chances of improvement
(Jacobsson and Wilson, 2012).
 Recovery Strategy Selection
In the organization Ingogo, after analyzing the complete situation and the current
state of the organization the best recovery strategy that should be utilized is the
restoration recovery strategy. This strategy will help the organization to work on their
flaws by analyzing all the process of the organization and executing improvements
wherever needed. The strategy will also help in improving the main factors that are
involved in the delivery of services to the customers. All these practices, will help the
organization to build a stronger and better image of the organization in the market
(Wong, Szeto and Wong, 2014).
 Implementation & Evaluation of Recovery Strategy
The restoration recovery strategy also requires the organization Ingogo to implement
some changes and to evaluate them at regular intervals. They are-
 Ingogo, firstly, has to teach their drivers about the decorum which has to be
followed around the customers and with the customers. Explosive activities and
unethical activities should be conducted with the customers (Milisavljevic, 2012).
 The Ingogo organization is also in need of new staff that has high skills and
techniques that helps in delivering high standards of customer expectations.
 The organization has to become more reliable in the opinion of the customer and
have to build a strong bond with the customers. This can be achieved by

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answering the complaints of the customers and building a personal relationship
with each customer (Marinkovic, 2013).
 All these changes have to be implicated and this also requires regular monitoring
and evaluation. The performance evaluation of the driver and the staff can be
conducted through staff assessment and through the surveys which should be
conducted with the customer, knowing about the service quality and any other
suggestions to fulfill their needs and demands.
Recommendations for Attaining Customer Loyalty at Ingogo
The customer loyalty is crucial for all the organization and for every organization it is more
important than the retention rate. The customer loyalty is achieved by the organization through
very good customer experience and this bond is built on emotions and strong conviction (Tran et
al., 2016). The benefits of customer loyalty for an organization is that the loyal customers are the
real brand ambassadors of the organization who provide the organization with a positive image
through good mouth marketing. The loyal customers helps in building a strong image of the
organization in the market. The Ingogo has to implement the following tactics for gaining loyal
customers for the organization. They are-
 The organization have to create and become more credible in the market and for that
fulfilling, the customer’s expectation maximum times is paramount.
 The organization should try empathy with customers and should majorly analyze an issue
from the opinion of the customer (Villalobos, 2016).
 The organization has to deliver what they promise. If they are promising fixed fares then
they should deliver that too. Also, the organization should never under deliver.

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 Customer loyalty can be gained only through customer happiness. Always end a
relationship with a customer on a happy note (Vujic, Vasiljevic-Blagojevic and Peric,
2014).
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Conclusion
Service provider organizations should always aim at improving their relationship with the
customer, by providing the services, which are more than what the organization promises to the
customers. For the organization Ingogo, it is of utmost importance to get a new staff and train the
older one. The second thing that the organization requires is improving their attitude towards
handling the customers. Also, the proposed strategies and tactics should be implicated by the
organization, which should be regularly monitored and changes should be made according to the

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needs. The organization should also implicate a continuous improvement plan that will help in
upgrading the quality of their services.

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