How does competitive positioning relate to general positioning? What frameworks do you use to help the company understand the difference?
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Watershed Global Head of Product Marketing & Communications | Formerly HubSpot • 3y
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...
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Workhuman Head of Product Marketing • 3y
Competitive positioning is basically a zoomed in version of your overall positioning. If you think of a competitive matrix, your overall positioning puts you on the map. ...
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Adobe Sr Director of Product Marketing, Creative Cloud • 2y
Positioning reflects what your company uniquely provides a specific audience in a particular market. It shouldn’t require multiple facets like general and competitive po...
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ActiveCampaign VP Product Marketing | Formerly Pendo, Demandbase, Conga, SAP • 2y
Ideally you are not basing your overall positioning based solely on how your competitors position themselves. That said, you (or more likely sales) will inevitably be ask...
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Guidewire Software VP Product Marketing | Formerly EIS Group, Datasite, Software AG, Microstrategy • 3y
When your company only has one product, the product positioning is the company positioning. The next growth phase would be a portfolio of products. Say we are are the pro...
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Visual Layer S.Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Lytx, Cisco, Snyk, Lightrun, Comeet,Coro • 3y
These aren't different things. Competitive is part of overall positioning. Product positioning should include evidence, details and decisions based on: - Competitive i...
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Fmr Product Marketing Leader, Cisco | Formerly Twilio, Cisco, Gartner • 1y
Both competitive positioning and general positioning start with the customer in a specific target market and the problem they face. Dig deep into the problem and understa...
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