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AMA: Jasper VP of Marketing, Meghan Keaney Anderson on Competitive Positioning

April 6 @ 10:00AM PST
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Jasper VP of Marketing, Meghan Keaney Anderson on Competitive Positioning
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How do you create competitive intel that is really beneficial to sales (i.e. they actually read and use it)?
Meghan Keaney Anderson
Meghan Keaney Anderson
Watershed VP of Marketing - Product Marketing & Communications • April 7
I try to create competitive intel at a couple of different levels of abstraction: * High-level: Usually in the form of a 2X2 which demonstrates the biggest difference between us and the rest of our field. The point of this is to give sales teams a highly memorable soundbite at a categoric......Read More
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What metric, goal or KPI can you put on providing competitive intelligence to the company or product teams?
I work in a company that measures the impact of all projects, but admittedly this is a difficult area to track. Would love to any suggestions/thoughts.
Meghan Keaney Anderson
Meghan Keaney Anderson
Watershed VP of Marketing - Product Marketing & Communications • April 7
I'm a fan of tracking closed-won rates against a top competitor. It's a good long-term trend to tell if your positioning is working and your product is growing stronger in the areas where it had been weak. I don't track that monthly, but rather quarter over quarter or even year over year as a hea......Read More
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How do you systematically organize & update your competitive intel when there's so much new information that can flow in every day?
Meghan Keaney Anderson
Meghan Keaney Anderson
Watershed VP of Marketing - Product Marketing & Communications • April 7
Much like with target audiences, you have to choose a heirarchy of competitors. This should be informed by the alternatives you come across most often in sales calls. This can be tough when alternative companies are getting a lot of media attention, but my rule generally is, until we start seeing......Read More
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Relying on narrative differentiation is obviously essential when products are essentially the same across you and your competitor set, but it's also a tough thing to do? Any advice?
Meghan Keaney Anderson
Meghan Keaney Anderson
Watershed VP of Marketing - Product Marketing & Communications • April 7
 I think there are loads of ways you can differentiate outside of product features.   * Features: You offer something valuable that others don't within your product (e.g., automation) * Customer experience: You have invested in UX and UI or for non-tech products the in-store or customer ......Read More
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What are the top documents you create when working on Competitive Positioning programs?
Meghan Keaney Anderson
Meghan Keaney Anderson
Watershed VP of Marketing - Product Marketing & Communications • April 7
Here are my go-tos for competitive positioning: * A competitive overview deck that speaks simply and directly to our positioning in the field and our most defensible differences between categories of competitors. * More detailed internal wiki pages for our most frequently seen competitor......Read More
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How does competitive positioning relate to general positioning? What frameworks do you use to help the company understand the difference?
Meghan Keaney Anderson
Meghan Keaney Anderson
Watershed VP of Marketing - Product Marketing & Communications • April 7
Competitive posititioning is a core element of product positioning. The primary architecture of brand and product-level positioning comes down to this: * Audience: Who are you primarily building for and marketing to?  * Pain/Enemy: What is their biggest pain point or problem? * Solution: How ......Read More
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