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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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

Differentiation: In a crowded market, your brands unique personality and approach set youapart. Combined, these tools amplify the brands reach while reinforcing its core message across digital ecosystems. A strong digital brandensures: Customer Loyalty: A seamless and intuitive digital experience keeps customers engaged.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

What is a messaging strategy? A messaging strategy is a marketing framework /plan that outlines how your brand communicates its key messages and unique selling proposition to its target audience. Why should you have a solid messaging strategy? This helps you stand out and connect more deeply with your target market.

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Product Management University

MARCH 11, 2017

Differentiation and innovation are your two best options! Differentiation. Differentiation boils down to unique positioning in your sales and marketing efforts with your products and company reputation serving up the proof points. Use that theme as the umbrella message in all of your marketing and sales communications.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Directly from many salespeople (clients) over the past 20 years, here are the most popular responses (in no particular order) to the question, “Why don’t you use the corporate positioning deck? Here’s the problem with most positioning presentations that come from corporate marketing. “ Too much fluff.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The new product is going to boost your differentiation in the competitive space. With that as the backdrop, there’s a good chance all of your launch content and messaging follows the theme of the headline in the press release. You’ve just built some cool new A.I. None of these headlines answer the “why do buyers care” question.

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UX Planet

MAY 27, 2025

Whether its push notifications, in-app messages or customer support, every interaction should feel true to your brands purpose. Acquisition: A frictionless, brand-aligned experience generates positive word-of-mouth. Its business strategy, brand differentiation and survival. People rave about delightful digital journeys.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 3, 2022

Solid messaging strategies are the key to grabbing your audience’s attention and nurturing their interest in your product. But how you can create a really good messaging strategy that will support your product marketing goals? In this article, we’ll be discussing everything you need to know about messaging strategies.

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Userpilot

JULY 22, 2024

Product positioning is crucial in product management to attract prospects and stand out in your niche. But how can you start crafting an effective positioning strategy that appeals to your target audience? TL;DR Developing a solid product positioning strategy involves several key steps. Understand your competition.

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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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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 Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

These quantitative methods allow product managers to make data-driven decisions about product features, pricing, and market positioning. Key Considerations in Value-Based Pricing Differential Value: Understanding what makes your product different from alternatives in the market.

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Pragmatic Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

When awash with data and metrics, it’s easy for a product marketer to overlook precision in using the language of messaging. Manickam’s team at Boomi, which specializes in cloud-based integration, API management and master data management, starts all messaging and positioning with the same framework. See below.).

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Pragmatic Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

When awash with data and metrics, it’s easy for a product marketer to overlook precision in using the language of messaging. Manickam’s team at Boomi, which specializes in cloud-based integration, API management and master data management, starts all messaging and positioning with the same framework. See below.).

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Messaging Research Software White Paper User Friction 91

Innovatemap

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

As tech companies navigate an increasingly AI-driven landscape, the role of differentiated, customer-centric messaging has never been more critical. With only 10% unaided recall from initial meetings, creating clear, repeatable messaging that others can articulate becomes crucial for sales success.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 20, 2024

How can message mapping support your company’s communication with customers and drive product engagement ? We also show you how to create a message map for your SaaS! Utilizing message mapping ensures all team members’ alignment in their communication across various channels. Let’s get to it! Book the demo!

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 19, 2018

Tristan received an automated transaction message: his credit card was just used at a convenience store 20 mins away! Forward thinking companies are starting to make service a part of their product, with messaging at the core. Messaging is the dominant app on mobile, driving consumer interest in this channel.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

You can find the first part here: Case study: what’s wrong with Soundcloud and what opportunity it misses I will be exploring how differentiating the content can: Allow a highly tailored experience across different areas of the product Help Soundcloud catch strategic opportunities while playing with their own strengths.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 26, 2022

For example, you can create messaging campaigns based on customers’ answers, personalize support content, and more. With Intercom, you can streamline customer query messages across all of your key digital channels so that your team can read, manage, and respond to messages all from one Inbox instead of jumping between tools and channels.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 9, 2023

This is a branding and messaging issue. As product professionals, we need to help position our products in ways that make sense for customers and the organization. Storytelling can help you understand what is and isn’t working—what messaging or features customers want to know more about. Obviously that’s not true.

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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). Relevance is the lynchpin to strong messaging. healthcare).

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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. Marketing products individually only dilutes that message. Absolutely not.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Dopamine Design Principles Within the broader field of neuromarketing, Dopamine Design focuses on shaping touchpointssuch as visuals, micro-interactions, feedback loops, and gamified elementsto elicit positive emotional responses. In Product Packaging: Integrate a hidden message or amusing detail that rewards closer inspection.

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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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Userpilot

JANUARY 3, 2022

When implemented effectively, in-app messages are a great way of driving user engagement in a timely, contextual and personalized manner. In-app messaging are the essential tool for SaaS businesses to easily communicate in-product with the user and: Onboard customers. What are in-app messages? Drive feature and product adoption.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Here at Apptentive, we’ve carefully tested this language and flow with our customers to help ensure their strongest fans provide positive feedback in the app stores, and their toughest critics come directly to them with constructive criticism. Rather, identify a “point of positive experience” within your app to display your prompt.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 8, 2021

The pandemic has transformed the way we do business and build relationships with customers – highlighting the need for digital-first solutions and personalized, conversational messaging. Conversational support is the modern way to provide efficient, personal support at scale via messaging-based, context-rich interactions.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

He is also the Chief of Teaching and Facilitation at StoryBrand, a Nashville-based company that helps organizations across the globe clarify their messages so their organizations will grow. Position your customer as the hero of the story and your product or business as the guide. If I’m a team manager, my team is the hero.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 7, 2020

“80% of our customers are telling us that the customer experience has become their primary vector of differentiation because products and services commoditize so quickly theses days. Apply the same formula to business requirements, user stories, positioning content, sales tools, product demos, etc. Storytelling Example.

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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. Personas are important when crafting the product messaging because it’s aimed at one or more stakeholders. Many organizations confuse market segments with personas.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 15, 2023

You’ll build base capabilities that are an 80% fit for all customers, but if push comes to shove on resources, time and scope, the (20%) market specific features get priority so that you have something that’s more valuable, unique and differentiating in your key markets. How does portfolio management impact product marketing and sales?

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 21, 2022

We managed it out of one giant spreadsheet about target persona, messaging, positioning, etc. Companies dedicate most of their resources to engineering and product development and very little to messaging about their value propositions. Determine how to position your products to differentiate from competitors.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2022

While customers were already starting to show a clear preference for digital channels such as messaging , COVID-19 amplified this pressure to connect with customers online or risk not connecting with them at all. As a result, digital technologies are being seen as the critical differentiators they are.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 8, 2019

For revenue-generating products, you should also investigate if the product is still effectively differentiated: Do users have a compelling reason to choose it over competitors’ offerings? You should now be in a good position to stock the product backlog and create the right user stories.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

While all the buzz may be around differentiating yourself, understanding your similarities to other solutions is just as important to product-led growth — if not more important. This brand positioning is only possible because the points of parity (in this case, security) have already been met. What are points of parity?

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

We make sure our MVP addresses those differentiating needs. Once we’ve figured out how we’re going to be better or different, we need to figure out how to position and message our product. A great example is the iPod’s messaging—”a thousand songs in your pocket.”

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Do this for your top 3-5 market segments and then develop lead generation campaigns with messaging that’s industry specific. 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.

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