CHAPTER 4

Establish Trust

Chapter Objectives

  • To appreciate the role trust plays as part of the brand
  • To understand how trust is created and how easily trust can be broken
  • To understand the role of pricing in trust
  • To appreciate the way service recovery can support trust
  • To identify means of recovering trust
  • To understand how trust in staff can deliver the ­responsiveness required
  • To identify trust-exposed industries

Chapter Profile

This chapter explores the importance for consumers to be able to trust the brands that they buy. It examines the role of trust in the decision-making process and in building loyalty. Trust is built up slowly over a period of time, in much the same way as brand equity is established, and is also a key element in ...

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