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Experience Selling 14#

The value of a product or service is increased with the customer experience offered with it. This opens the door for higher customer demand and commensurate increase in prices charged. This means that the customer experience must be adapted accordingly, e.g., by attuning promotion or shop fittings.


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Examples: Iconic Cases

How they do it: Associations with extreme sports (e.g. Formula One, motocross, windsurfing, BMX and snowboarding) combined with the distinctive RedBull branding enables the company to charge higher prices for its products. Customers, predominantely young males, desire the whole ”experience” associated with the RedBull lifestyle, and not simply the product or its functional value.
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How they do it: Through both their online store as well as physical brand stores, Freitag controls the whole product presentation. Due to the unique selling proposition of using only recycled materials, the manufacturing and sourcing process plays a great role for the customer experience and enables customers a high identification with the products and the brand.
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How they do it: Products displayed on Pinterest (e.g. organic posts by users or ”Promoted Pins”, paid for by brand advertisers) are a form of experience selling. The popularity of a product (often based on its visual appeal) is voted on by the community, and feedback on the product’s experience is provided below the user. A sponsored post is often surrounded by similar posts of the same category or brand, which fosters the unique discovery appeal of Pinterest.
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How they do it: IKEA’s stores and products are all designed around the theme ”Nordic living”. Products are named with Swedish words and the food offered in the IKEA restaurants and grocery stores is mainly Swedish as well. Hence IKEA products and product names have a high recognition value.
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How they do it: In its ”Porsche Experience Centers”, the brand aims to let customers explore the car models and associate positive emotions and foster affection before the purchase decision is made.
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Apply this pattern to your own business and create your next innovative business model!