Trade-Off
A Fresh and Important New Way to Understand Why We Buy Why did the RAZR ultimately ruin Motorola? Why does Wal-Mart dominate rural and suburban areas but falter in large cities? Why did Starbucks stumble just when it seemed unstoppable? The answer lies in the ever-present tension between fidelity (the quality of a consumeras experience) and convenience (the ease of getting and paying for a product). In Trade-Off, Kevin Maney shows how these conflicting forces determine the success, or failure, of new products and services in the marketplace. He shows that almost every decision we make as consumers involves a trade-off between fidelity and convenienceabetween the products we love and the products we need. Rock stars sell out concerts because the experience is high in fidelity-ait canat be replicated in any other way, and because of that, we are willing to suffer inconvenience for the experience. In contrast, a downloaded MP3 of a song is low in fidelity, but consumers buy music online because itas superconvenient. Products that are at one extreme or the otherathose that are high in fidelity or high in conveniencea-tend to be successful. The things that fall into the middle-aproducts or services that have moderate fidelity and convenience-afail to win an enthusiastic audience. Using examples from Amazon and Disney to People Express and the invention of the ATM, Maney demonstrates that the most successful companies skew their offerings to either one extreme or the other-afidelity or convenience-ain shaping products and building brands. From the Hardcover edition.He had a few more crinkles around the eyes and a little less hair than when hea#39;d started Amazon.com over a decade before. But nobody has ... His latest point of pride was the Kindle electronic book reader, unveiled in late 2007. After Amazon ... But it seemed that the Kindlea-like a lot of early technologiesahad started life without either the convenience or the fidelity to light a fire under a sizable market.
| Title | : | Trade-Off |
| Author | : | Kevin Maney |
| Publisher | : | Crown Business - 2009-09-15 |
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