This document provides an overview of service marketing. It defines service marketing as activities, benefits or satisfaction offered for sale in connection with goods. The key characteristics of services are intangibility, heterogeneity, perishability, and inseparability. The importance of service marketing is discussed in terms of job creation, optimal resource use, and increased standards of living. Core and supplementary services are described as the two main types. The growth of the services sector in modern economies is also highlighted.