PRODUCTS ↬ MEANING
If you could take a time machine back to the late 19th century, you would see a world full of advertising pitches that would seem quaint by today’s standards. You’d certainly find heroic attempts to differentiate our product from their product, but the difference would be based mostly on the product’s features. This was a market-place of tangible goods for functional needs.
However, if you eased the time machine forward a few decades, say, to 1925, you’d notice that marketers had begun to step up their game. They realized that features weren’t at the heart of what customers really wanted. What they wanted were the benefits that those features delivered. Smart marketers began to focus on functional benefits.
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