How do you develop messaging that grabs attention in a crowded market?
We're in the sales development space and it's hyper competitive. It's hard to create messaging that cuts through the noise of all of our other competitors.
9 Answers
LangChain VP of Marketing • 6y
The key thing is to do what you just mentioned -- grab attention. Do something different. Either tell a bolder story, take a different angle, focus on a differentiator, o...
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WalkMe Director, Solutions Marketing & Competitive Intelligence • 8y
I don't think there is a single answer here---it is the fundamental messaging & content marketing concern! As you know, we all see hundreds of commercial and noncomme...
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Clarify.ai Head of Marketing | Formerly Atlassian, Intercom, Loom, Equals • 8y
Tell a compelling story. A story that resonates with your target audience. Something that speaks directly to the pain they are experiencing and/or describes a future stat...
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What medium and what specific messaging? Depends on those two things (e.g., emails that capture people's attention vs website messaging that enables a staged, conversion-...
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Stealth Founder | Formerly Oracle, Lacework, Stackery, New Relic, Juniper Networks, IDC, @stake • 7y
If I read the question right, you sell sales development services, right? Hook me: 1. Show you get my pain. 2. Teach me to be a better customer. Make fun of the pain f...
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Silicon Valley Go To Market Dojo Founder • 7y
My short summary is that you need to align your STORY so that it is strategic and meaningful to the prospect and teaches them how you can transform their world. You do...
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Woven Head of Marketing • 8y
The problem that I see in a lot of crowded markets is that players try to one-up each other with new features that the buyer either doesn't fully comprehend or care about...
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Ouster Vice President Marketing • 8y
I'm going to take a somewhat contrarian view on this and say that in order to really break through in a crowded market, it takes more than clever messaging (though that n...
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KPI Sense Chief Executive Officer • 6y
"Messaging is more effective when it's aligned with the top priorities of your customer (instead of what you think is important)." Dead. On. I'll go even further: When...
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