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How do you keep competitors from copying your product messaging so that your value prop stays differentiated?

Matt Hodges
Clarify.ai Head of Marketing | Formerly Atlassian, Intercom, Loom, Equals8y
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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Steve Feyer
WalkMe Director, Solutions Marketing & Competitive Intelligence8y
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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Elain Szu
Aurora Solar SVP of Marketing5y
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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Anjali T. Cameron
Landed Head of Marketing7y
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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Martin Raygoza
Diageo Head of Tequila Portfolio1y
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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Nina Seth
Blue Yonder Product Marketing Director8y
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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Mike Flouton
Boxford Capital Managing Partner | Formerly Barracuda, SilverSky, Digital Guardian, OpenPages, Cybertrust8y
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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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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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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