What Is a Product?
Products, Services, and Experiences
Product is anything that can be offered in a market for attention, acquisition, use, or consumption that might satisfy a need or want Service is any activity or benefit that one party can offer to another that is essentially intangible and does not result in the ownership of anything. Experiences represent what buying the product or service will do for the customer
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Chapter Eight
Products, Services, and Brands Building Customer Value
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What Is a Product?
Levels of product and services Core benefit Actual product Augmented product
Product and Service Classifications
Product and Service Classifications • Consumer products are products and services for personal consumption • Classified by how consumers buy them
–Convenience products –Shopping products –Specialty products –Unsought products
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Consumer products Industrial products
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Product and Service Classifications
Convenience products are consumer products and services that the customer usually buys frequently, immediately, and with a minimum comparison and buying effort –Newspapers –Candy –Fast food
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Product and Service Classifications
Shopping products are consumer products and services that the customer compares carefully on suitability, quality, price, and style –Furniture –Cars –Appliances
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Product and Service Classifications
Specialty products are consumer products and services with