Abstract:
Marketing resources, competences and skills, demonstrated in specific decisions and activities addressed to the target market, determine the competitive power of an enterprise; they indicate how to use the knowledge of identified customer groups and their market needs for the best benefit of the company. The aim of this publication is to analyse selected areas of marketing activities in service companies which support the creation of value for customers, and consequently the value of the company.
It was hypothetically assumed, in the comparison of research results obtained for the total population of surveyed companies and for those in the service sector, that the nature of service business has an essential effect on the perception of importance of individual marketing actions for the building of enterprise value, and on the use of various solutions (components of marketing actions).