Don't sell the spinach

Feature or benefit?

Features tell. Benefits sell. Thirty seconds, one statement at a time: click left if it's about the product, right if it's a benefit to the customer. Sounds easy, but most people discover they can't tell.

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Why all this matters

Product plus customer equals value-in-use. A feature is true whether or not anyone buys it: sixteen gigabytes, ISO certified, made in Britain. A benefit only exists in the customer's world: the audit that becomes a formality, the Sunday evening you get back.

Sales teams drift toward features because features are safe; you can't be wrong about a spec sheet. But nobody really buys spec sheets.

Sixty statements, shuffled every round. The good ones are deliberately sneaky. Keyboard works too: left and right arrows.