"**Experiences are a fourth economic offering, as distinct from services as services are from goods, but one that has until now gone largely unrecognized**. Experiences have always been around, but consumers, businesses, and economists lumped them into the service sector along with such uneventful activities as dry cleaning, auto repair, wholesale distribution, and telephone access... "But **this doesn’t mean that experiences rely exclusively on entertainment; entertainment is only one aspect of an experience**. Rather, companies stage an experience whenever they engage customers, connecting with them in a personal, memorable way. "While **commodities are fungible, goods tangible, and services intangible, experiences are memorable**... "**All prior economic offerings remain at arms-length, outside the buyer, while experiences are inherently personal**. They actually occur within any individual who has been engaged on an emotional, physical, intellectual, or even spiritual level. The result? **No two people can have the same experience—period**. Each experience derives from the interaction between the staged event and the individual’s prior state of mind and being." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[customer-experience]], [[client-service]], [[economics]], [[law-firm-business]] **Source** -- [[20250112015442 - B - If Disney Ran Your Hospital]] Consider, no person ever steps in the same river twice.