How do you keep competitors from copying your product messaging so that your value prop stays differentiated?
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Clarify.ai Head of Marketing | Formerly Atlassian, Intercom, Loom, Equals • 8y
What's the saying, "imitation is the best form of flattery"? It's impossible to prevent competitors from copying your messaging (and product to some extent even). Inste...
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WalkMe Director, Solutions Marketing & Competitive Intelligence • 8y
Great question! But I'm going to blow up your premise right away: You can't prevent others from copying you. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right? So instea...
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Aurora Solar SVP of Marketing • 5y
This is one of my favorite challenges when you're developing brand positioning and you can apply to a singular product area, as well. You can't prevent them from copying ...
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Landed Head of Marketing • 7y
I’d focus mainly on all the things you can do to stand out: Make your visual layout, pricing and customer experience unique to further differentiate your offering from c...
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Diageo Head of Tequila Portfolio • 1y
That's one of the most complicated issues to address and maintain for any brand owner. While it's important to understand that it's impossible to completely prevent copyc...
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Blue Yonder Product Marketing Director • 8y
You can't stop competitors from copying your product messaging. That will always happen in highly competitive markets. But organizations can focus on building different...
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Boxford Capital Managing Partner | Formerly Barracuda, SilverSky, Digital Guardian, OpenPages, Cybertrust • 8y
Two great answers already submitted for this one. I would just add that it's a good signal when they copy your messaging. That means it's good. Keep talking to customers ...
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AudiencePlus CEO • 6y
This is an important question that points to the relationship between brand and product marketing in context of competitive strategy.Short answer, I wouldn't optimize aro...
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Messages That Matter Co-Founder • 3y
If you are taking advantage of the power of consistency and repetition, you need not worry if your competitor copies your product messaging. Since your target audience wi...
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