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Absolute Value
The book in one sentence
Now that buyers can check reviews, expert opinion and real user experience in seconds, they judge products on what they are actually like, and brand, loyalty and clever positioning matter less than they used to.
Who it's for
Marketers, brand managers, product owners and founders who want to understand how online reviews and social information are changing the way customers decide.
The big idea
Simonson, a Stanford marketing professor who specialises in consumer decision-making, and Rosen, a former software marketing executive and author of a well-known book on word of mouth, argue that consumer behaviour is going through a fundamental shift. For most of history, buyers couldn’t easily tell how good a product really was, so they relied on shortcuts: familiar brands, past experience, and comparisons with whatever else was on the shelf. Today, with reviews, expert ratings and social networks at hand, people can get much closer to the absolute value of a product, its real quality and usefulness, before they buy.
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