This document provides an overview of service marketing. It defines service marketing as a specialized branch of marketing that emerged in the 1980s in recognition that services require different strategies than physical goods. Service marketing includes business-to-consumer and business-to-business services across industries like telecom, finance, hospitality, tourism, healthcare, and professional services. The four key characteristics of services are that they are intangible, inseparable from their production, perishable, and variable in quality from one delivery to the next. The document concludes by listing common examples of service firms and industries to provide context for understanding the unique challenges of services marketing.