TY - BOOK AU - Barwise,Patrick AU - Meehan,Seán TI - Simply better: winning and keeping customers by delivering what matters most SN - 9781633692800 AV - HF5415 .S567 2004 PY - 2004/// CY - Boston, Massachusetts PB - Harvard Business Review Press KW - Consumer satisfaction KW - Evaluation KW - Marketing KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Intro; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Differentiation That Matters; Chapter 2: How Customers Really See Your Brand; Chapter 3: Identifying Generic Category Benefits; Chapter 4: Challenges of Innovating the Drive the Market; Chapter 5: Caution: Inside-the-Box Advertising Doesn't Work; Chapter 6: Customer-Focused Mind-Set; Chapter 7: How to Be Simply Better; Notes; Index; About the Authors; 2; b N2 - Most executives believe that winning and keeping customers requires offering something unique. But as physical products are seen as increasingly hard to differentiate, companies resort to branding, gimmicks, and "thinking outside the box." Meanwhile, customers are less satisfied than they were a decade ago. Patrick Barwise and Seán Meehan argue that most companies have taken differentiation so far that they've left their customers behind. Customers don't want bells and whistles and don't care about trivial differences between brands. What they really want are quality products, reliable service UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1341704&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -