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"At a conference where Professor Neil Rackham, internationally acknowledged sales guru, was the keynote speaker he asked delegates to define a value proposition. The first person to reply said: ‘It’s marketing bullshit for a benefits statement.’ This is completely incorrect, but it is probably what most people think."
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"When, late in the 20th century, the globalization tipping point happened, enabling supply to approach and exceed demand, and when Japanese goods were enthusiastically being snapped up, Western companies at long last recognized the imperative to produce quality goods. But even then, it took a while for many companies to understand that quality has to be built in to products and services, rather than being ‘inspected in’.
In the mid- to late 20th century, companies often tried to identify for their products and services a unique selling proposition, or USP.
This was, as the term suggests, something that made a product or service ‘special’, something that could be thrown into a sales situation as a clincher to get the deal. Bizarrely, however, USPs often were not directly related to value and, sometimes, not even directly related to the product or service."
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"Next, ‘features and benefits’ emerged as an advance on USPs. In fact, the formula evolved to ‘features–advantages–benefits’, which gave the handy acronym FAB. In countless workshops in the 1970s and 1980s delegates learned that features were connected to advantages, and advantages to benefits, ....
You get the idea? Fab! There was often no great effort to prove the claims, and the idea at the time was to create as long a list as possible.
More, so the thinking went, was better.
Then, the truth dawned… a feature is not a benefit unless it is a solution to a need. This was perhaps the moment that the concept of the value proposition was born. Even then, it took time to get to today’s understanding of the term.
The first post-FAB differentiating technique compared a product or service with its competitor(s) by listing points of parity (POP) and points of difference (POD). This had the virtue of at least acknowledging competitive offerings. POP–POD analyses, however, were not necessarily discriminating in relation to a particular customer’s need or situation.
The time for the value proposition had arrived.
However, no sooner had value proposition entered the business lexicon than it started to be misapplied. It became used as an alternative for USPs, features, benefits, POPs and PODs."
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"And let’s make it clear from the outset that a value proposition is not what you do. It is the value experience that you deliver."
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"When, late in the 20th century, the globalization tipping point happened, enabling supply to approach and exceed demand, and when Japanese goods were enthusiastically being snapped up, Western companies at long last recognized the imperative to produce quality goods. But even then, it took a while for many companies to understand that quality has to be built in to products and services, rather than being ‘inspected in’.
In the mid- to late 20th century, companies often tried to identify for their products and services a unique selling proposition, or USP.
This was, as the term suggests, something that made a product or service ‘special’, something that could be thrown into a sales situation as a clincher to get the deal. Bizarrely, however, USPs often were not directly related to value and, sometimes, not even directly related to the product or service."
...
"Next, ‘features and benefits’ emerged as an advance on USPs. In fact, the formula evolved to ‘features–advantages–benefits’, which gave the handy acronym FAB. In countless workshops in the 1970s and 1980s delegates learned that features were connected to advantages, and advantages to benefits, ....
You get the idea? Fab! There was often no great effort to prove the claims, and the idea at the time was to create as long a list as possible.
More, so the thinking went, was better.
Then, the truth dawned… a feature is not a benefit unless it is a solution to a need. This was perhaps the moment that the concept of the value proposition was born. Even then, it took time to get to today’s understanding of the term.
The first post-FAB differentiating technique compared a product or service with its competitor(s) by listing points of parity (POP) and points of difference (POD). This had the virtue of at least acknowledging competitive offerings. POP–POD analyses, however, were not necessarily discriminating in relation to a particular customer’s need or situation.
The time for the value proposition had arrived.
However, no sooner had value proposition entered the business lexicon than it started to be misapplied. It became used as an alternative for USPs, features, benefits, POPs and PODs."
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"And let’s make it clear from the outset that a value proposition is not what you do. It is the value experience that you deliver."
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