Userpilot

JANUARY 23, 2024

Product positioning strategies are not only a marketing tactic but a survival strategy. In this article, we’ll go over product positioning definitions and their types, then go over our process for creating a product positioning strategy that gets positive user feedback. What is product positioning?

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Product Management University

JANUARY 18, 2019

Powerful product positioning usually boils down to the best story, which is not always the best product. Great positioning is centered on the aspirations of your target customers and why those aspirations are so important to their success. Use Themes to Differentiate. The Playbook: Make It More About the Buyer – Way More!

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Sign up for The Art & Science of Positioning Solutions. Product Positioning Tip 5 of 7: Include Emotion. Product Positioning Tip 4 of 7: “Net It Out” Value Themes for Greater Simplicity. Product Positioning Tip 3 of 7: Verbalizing a Product Overview in 30 Seconds. Atlanta, November 20th. Costa Mesa, CA, December 10th.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 7, 2019

Positioning, while classically considered part of the marketing world, is absolutely essential for every product manager to understand. Positioning refers to the place that a brand occupies in the minds of customers and its perceived differentiation from its competitors.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The Playbook : The #1 rule of positioning is that it has to reflect the customer’s mindset. Interesting, emotional and credible positioning is a delicate balance. Sign up for The Art & Science of Positioning Solutions. Product Positioning Tip 4 of 7: “Net It Out” Value Themes for Greater Simplicity.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Here’s an example of product positioning at its finest. Product knowledge is a big fat handicap when it comes to positioning value because it forces you to overthink everything. As product managers and product marketers, all you have to do is bring their vision of success to life with your positioning and you’ve got a winner.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

” Good sales positioning and discovery techniques can help you understand true buyer motivations so you don’t end up in the Nobody Zone. This stage is where your company messaging and solution positioning can fully engage buyers or push them away. There’s an old saying: “buyers are liars!”

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Effective product teams position their solutions as market leaders. The winners emerging from the scrum of similar offerings differentiate themselves in significant, meaningful, and sometimes surprising ways. Combined with testimonials and case studies, this is a powerful tool in your differentiation arsenal.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Be a Positive Person That Salespeople Love To Work With There’s a lot to unpack here, but DO NOT interpret this as “do whatever sales asks.” That credibility is often what differentiates you in the end. The Most Basic Rule of Product Positioning 3. Make your product positioning conversational and your sales narratives are done!

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Department of Product

JULY 29, 2022

Product Positioning for Product Managers Why an understanding of how your product is positioned is critical A key responsibility for Product Managers is to define how their products are positioned in the market. This is the result of unique product positioning.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the competitive world of SaaS products, product positioning is definitely something your product marketing team can’t afford to ignore. Let’s have look at what product positioning actually is, what it involves, the benefits of effective positioning, the strategies you can employ, and the risks of ignoring all the wisdom in this article.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In the simplest terms, portfolio marketing is a set of business practices for positioning and marketing the strategic customer value of your portfolio to chosen market segments with supporting practices that integrate the marketing of individual products. What is Portfolio Marketing? Here’s the other thing. Here’s why.

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BrainMates

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Product positioning is an important part of a product marketing strategy. Why does product positioning matter? Product Positioning is a core marketing tool that can help to convince potential buyers to select your product from the sea of other possibilities. Product positioning should not be rushed. Easy as S-T-P.

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Messages that Matter

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Differentiation was relatively easy. Just identify the benefit of a really important piece of unique functionality and you had a potential positioning statement. However, in today’s Software as a Service (Saas) world, differentiation […].

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Actuation Consulting

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

A strong positioning statement is an important ingredient for success. In this post we share some tips for developing a well thought out positioning statement. What is a Positioning Statement? A well-crafted positioning statement brings together your overall value proposition with your positioning for a product.

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Messages that Matter

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

You and your competitor have the same position What happens when your position doesn’t differentiate you from the competition? Lack of differentiation is one of several common, costly symptoms of poor positioning. What affect does it have on marketing? And what about sales?

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Product Management University

JANUARY 8, 2024

For all of you pre-sales solution consultants and sales engineers looking for new ways to differentiate your demos, step away from your products for a quick minute. The Simple Secret to Differentiation Think about someone you really enjoyed buying from. Solution Consultants and Differentiation Here’s the bottom line.

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Dear Strategy

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Your product strategy should provide direction on your product’s over-arching business goals and initiatives, whereas your go-to-market plan should provide more specific details on your product’s target customers, value proposition, positioning, and marketing mix (product, price, promotion, and placement) roadmaps.

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Nulab

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Competitive positioning is a way to assess the market, suss out your competition, and work out whether your offering is a viable means of making money. Research part 1: Qualitative research for competitive positioning. Any good positioning strategy begins with plenty of research. Define your competitive positioning approach.

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Dear Strategy

OCTOBER 6, 2021

On this month’s podcast ( Episode 130 ), I provided some tips on how to differentiate between a product strategy and a go-to-market plan. The post How To Differentiate Between a Product Strategy and a Go-To-Market Plan appeared first on Dear Strategy. You can learn more about his work by visiting bobcaporale.com.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

For example, your accounts payable solution gives organizations a more accurate/predictable cash flow (strategic value) by eliminating invoice errors that lead to overpayments, underpayments, and penalties (tactical problems) that can distort its cash position (consequences). Here’s the difference. healthcare).

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

If you and all of your competitors are serving vanilla ice cream to buyers, you’re missing an enormous opportunity to differentiate and improve your win rates. Aspirational selling is about understanding what’s driving your buyers from the top down and using that knowledge to position the value of your products in a more strategic context.

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Messages that Matter

JULY 17, 2017

If you need to be convinced that differentiation is critical to effective marketing, or you’re convinced but don’t know how to do it, read on. The goal of positioning is to facilitate your target audience’s association of a significant benefit with your product or company.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In most B2B organizations, it’s more the exception than the rule that customer success managers inherit accounts where they’re in a position to play offense because the customer is thrilled with your products. Let’s dream for just a minute. Economic buyers are thrilled with the partnership they’ve formed with your organization.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Magic Quadrant reports are a culmination of rigorous, fact-based research in specific markets, providing a wide-angle view of the relative positions of the providers in markets where growth is high and provider differentiation is distinct.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 31, 2023

Vision Inspiring : Describes the positive change the product should create. Differentiated : The aspects of your product that make it stand out , set it apart from alternative offerings are stated. These are vision, target group, needs, product, and business goals. Focused : There are no more than five features.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

Here’s an example template for crafting an effective vision statement: “To [solve a problem] for [target users] by providing [unique value proposition] , leading to [positive impact or transformation] within [timeframe].” The Impact: Articulate the positive outcomes your product will bring to users or the market.

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Product Management University

MARCH 30, 2023

Personas are an important factor in your positioning , but the one thing you can’t do is estimate the size of a market using personas. The solution providers that truly have differentiating value built into their products are extremely good at this part. healthcare, retail), size of the organization (e.g., USA, Canada, Mexico).

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 21, 2019

From page 1 of Obviously Awesome: How To Nail Product Positioning So Customers Get It, Buy It, Love It , it was clear that the team at Business of Software needed to read April Dunford’s new book. 1 – Positioning is the difference between ‘So?’ Positioning changed the ‘So?’

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

We hope your 2020 is winding down on a positive note, all things considered. 7 Tips for Positioning Greater Strategic Value & Differentiation. To what extent do you have to completely redefine your positioning to align with new customer priorities? B2B Product Manager November 2020 Issue. Product Management Playbook.

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Userpilot

APRIL 17, 2024

Google Trends helps businesses differentiate products in crowded markets by identifying evolving consumer interests and regional search behaviors. Google Analytics 4 offers advanced tools for understanding cross-platform customer behavior, aiding product differentiation and tailored offerings in a competitive market.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 27, 2021

How to differentiate and build a competitive advantage that you can sustain and defend over time Photo by Pavel Danilyuk from Pexels Creating your product strategy is hard work. Focus and Positioning: A different type of prioritization Selecting is not about prioritization frameworks or ROI calculations.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 11, 2023

When your differentiating value isn’t abundantly clear, the deal ends up with no decision or worse yet, a loss. Product marketing now has a differentiating message to fill the pipeline. That differentiation is demonstrable in the sales process and your win rates goes up.

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Product Management University

APRIL 8, 2024

Here’s why this structure is so critical to a stronger leadership position. The Sales Process To successfully execute the sales process, your discovery, positioning, product demos and contract negotiations have to clearly articulate: see 1-3 above. Pepper in some competitive differentiation. They buy because you understand them.

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Dear Strategy

MAY 10, 2018

Dear Strategy: “Which approach or tool should I use for defining the positioning strategy in a Red Ocean?”. The first is the term “Red Ocean” and the second is the term “positioning.” The term “positioning” was made famous by Al Ries and Jack Trout in their co-authored book Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind.

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Messages that Matter

JANUARY 27, 2019

If Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Sales Force Automation (SFA) took into account marketing effectiveness, Microsoft and Oracle would get dinged for lack of differentiation.

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Messages that Matter

MAY 15, 2018

Why do so many Business Intelligence (BI) software companies use “insights” as their position? Of the 19 BI companies evaluated in this 4th annual assessment, more than half (11) position around the notion of “insights.” There are two polar opposite explanations for what I call “me-too” positioning which means no differentiation.

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