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HBR's 10 Must Reads for Sales and Marketing Collection (5 Books)

by Harvard Business Review
May 2020
Beginner
1024 pages
22h 56m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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Customer Value Propositions in Business Markets

by James C. Anderson, James A. Narus, and Wouter van Rossum

“CUSTOMER VALUE PROPOSITION” has become one of the most widely used terms in business markets in recent years. Yet our management-practice research reveals that there is no agreement as to what constitutes a customer value proposition—or what makes one persuasive. Moreover, we find that most value propositions make claims of savings and benefits to the customer without backing them up. An offering may actually provide superior value—but if the supplier doesn’t demonstrate and document that claim, a customer manager will likely dismiss it as marketing puffery. Customer managers, increasingly held accountable for reducing costs, don’t have ...

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