How important is the strategic order of product attribute presentation in the non-life insurance market?

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• 作者：Sé ; rgio Dominique-Ferreira^a ; ^b ; ^{sdominique@ipca.pt} ; ^{sergio.dominique@gmail.com}Author Vitae
• 关键词：Effects of the order of attribute presentation ; Customer services management ; Sales management ; Bundling strategy ; Insurance sector
• 刊名：Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：34
• 期：Complete
• 页码：138-144
• 全文大小：379 K
• 卷排序：34

文摘

Sales management plays an important role in firms' profit. Its main goal is to determine the best time to present insurance customers with prices, insurers, bundling strategies, and the intermediary's recommendation.In this study, a triangular approach was used. For attribute selection, three focus groups were performed with insurance customers and intermediaries. Conjoint analysis was carried out by presenting the attributes in three different orders.Primacy and recency effects were detected; a transfer or anchor effect was also found related to the importance of the attributes preceding and succeeding a given attribute.According to the findings, salespeople can improve their approach to customers by decreasing the importance given to price and increasing the positive impact of bundling strategies and the intermediary's recommendation in sales.Although the order of attribute presentation has previously been analyzed, this is the first study to examine this issue in non-life insurance products, providing useful information to insurance salespeople and marketing managers for a better understanding of insurance customers’ buying decision process.