The document discusses levels of customer value from a core benefit to a potential product. It explains that a core benefit is what a customer is really buying, like rest and sleep for a hotel guest. A basic product provides the core benefit, while an expected product includes standard attributes. An augmented product exceeds expectations with extra features, and a potential product represents all possible future improvements.
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The document discusses levels of customer value from a core benefit to a potential product. It explains that a core benefit is what a customer is really buying, like rest and sleep for a hotel guest. A basic product provides the core benefit, while an expected product includes standard attributes. An augmented product exceeds expectations with extra features, and a potential product represents all possible future improvements.
The document discusses levels of customer value from a core benefit to a potential product. It explains that a core benefit is what a customer is really buying, like rest and sleep for a hotel guest. A basic product provides the core benefit, while an expected product includes standard attributes. An augmented product exceeds expectations with extra features, and a potential product represents all possible future improvements.
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The document discusses levels of customer value from a core benefit to a potential product. It explains that a core benefit is what a customer is really buying, like rest and sleep for a hotel guest. A basic product provides the core benefit, while an expected product includes standard attributes. An augmented product exceeds expectations with extra features, and a potential product represents all possible future improvements.
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Product levels; The customer value hierarchy.
1. Core benefit. Service/benefit/attribute the customer is really buying. A hotel
guest is buying rest & sleep.
2. Basic product. The marketer has to turn the core benefit into a basic
product. Thus a hotel room includes all the related items.
3. Expected product. A set of attributes & conditions buyers normally expect
when they purchase this product/service. As in the same hotel example, a clean
bed, fresh towels & working lamp.
4. Augmented product. Any feature/attribute that exceeds the customer’s
expectations such as a complimentary breakfast in our above mentioned example.
5. Potential product. It encompasses all the possible augmentations &
transformations the product or offering might undergo in future.Thus we find the