Service Delivery, Customer Satisfaction and Customer Delight in the Real Estate Business. Evidence from Elite Kingdom Investment and Consulting Company Ghana

Businesses now focus more on how to create customers, retain and maintain customers through quality service delivery, customer satisfaction and customer delight. The purpose of the study was to identify whether customer delight and customer satisfaction depend on service provided by an organization. The research formulated hypothesis based on the three variables mentioned earlier. A simple random sampling was used to sample 248 customers of Elite Kingdom Investment and Consulting Company. Questionnaires were administered to the respondents to collect primary data. A reliability analysis was run to ascertain the inconsistency of the instruments used in the questionnaire. The statistical package used was SPSS version 20 to run the reliability analysis, test of normality, multivariate and univariate analyses, and Microsoft Excel was also used to generate pie and graph on personal data of respondents. The study revealed that service delivery is significant to customer satisfaction customer delight. Further findings in the study also revealed that there is a positive correlation between service delivery and satisfaction, and satisfaction and customer delight. It is therefore recommended that, the Elite Kingdom should move away from the basic understanding of customer satisfaction to delighting customers which might pave the way for repeat purchase among customers of the organization. Keywords: Service delivery, satisfaction, delight, repeat purchase, loyalty and profitabilit