2. Motivation to Attend Events
• Cultural Norms/Values
• Popular Athletes
• Significant Others
3. Other Reasons to Attend Events
• Low ticket values
• High scoring event
• Media coverage
• Unpredictability = entertainment
4. Terms
• Feature: physical characteristic of product
• Benefit: what need the product fills for the
customer
• Unique selling proposition: the one reason a
product is different/better than competition
• Feature-benefit selling: matching
characteristics of product to customer’s
needs & wants
• Feature-benefit chart: lists benefits side-by-
side with features
5. Sources of Feature/Benefit Info
Sales people
Product literature
Consumer review web sites
Internet discussion boards