How do you approach messaging and positioning when your product isn't the market leader?
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Triple Whale 🐳 VP of Marketing | Formerly Klaviyo, Drift, Dropbox, Upwork • 4y
You change the conversation. Positioning is all about defining a target audience and a place in their minds where you are the market leader. There’s some great inspirat...
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Glassdoor Director, Product Marketing • 4y
Per our head of PMM (Eric Petitt), it is important to think about and understand the market leader positioning because the leader often defines category expectations… as ...
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Rimsys Regulatory Management Software VP of Marketing • 5y
I actually don't think this matters all that much. Messaging should be anchored in the outcomes your product delivers to your target persona, and the key differentators t...
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Circana Chief Strategy Officer | Formerly Microsoft, SAP, McKinsey • 4y
I am a believer that your messaging/positioning has to be consistent with how differentiated your product really is. Customers will quickly figure out what is marketing f...
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Fourth CMO • 5y
One approach here is to re-define your market in such a way that you’re the leader of that market. That’s kind of what category creation if all about.Another approach her...
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Messages That Matter Co-Founder • 3y
You differentiate by first creating a perceptual map that makes it easy to see how your competitors are positioned relative to each other. Use the perceptual map while cr...
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