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A feature about demonstrating the benefit!

Features and Benefits

Commonly accepted marketing wisdom suggests that customers like benefits. They don’t give a damn about features. A classic Marketing 101 exercise suggests that you take a piece of paper, and on the left side, write down a list of your product or service’s features. On the right side, list the corresponding benefit(s).

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The sale “hinges” on you!

It’s not who you’re calling on, or what you’re selling. It’s how you present yourself. If you sell used cars, computers, perfume at a department store, or million pound yachts — there’s very little difference in anything other than your earnings. Your ability to excel and be happy in any of these jobs — including your job right now — has very little to do with the economy, very little to do with your product, and even less to do with price.The sale hinges on

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