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What is your strategy to crafting messaging around features that your competitors already have?

Nami Sung
Ramp VP of Product Marketing2y
Typing quickly, so excuse any typos!Competitors will always have a common set of features. Every pizza needs a crust and some toppings – what they are, how they manifest,...
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Jennifer Kay Corridon
Midi Health Go To Market & Principal PMM | Formerly Homebase, Angi, The Knot2y
Messaging strategy begins with a deep understanding of our customers' world view, fears, concerns, needs and pain points. Within this I try to focus on:Continuous Narrati...
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Caroline Silverkorn
Freed Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Quizlet, Udemy, San Francisco Ballet1y
When messaging in a known category, there are two ends of the spectrum: differentiate or blend in. The best approach is usually finding some blend of the two. As marketer...
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Jeremy Wood
Adobe Head of GTM Strategy, APAC & Japan2y
Nothing revolutionary. Focus on your competitive differentiators so that customers fully understand why 'you and not them' This seems like it's basic advice but it's very...
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Stephanie Kelman
Shopify Senior Product Marketing Lead2y
Crafting compelling messaging for features that your competitors already have can be difficult since it's hard to find a competitive advantage in this instance. When I'm ...
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Kelly Kipkalov
Carta Vice President Product Marketing2y
If you are focussed on messaging at the feature level, there's probably little you can do to differentiate if you are playing catch up with a specific piece of functional...
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Christine Sotelo-Dag
Close Head of Product Marketing2y
There are a few parts that go into this at the foundational level, that I think help when doing the tactical writing for gap closing features. Prior to writing any code, ...
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Lauren Craigie
Inngest Head of Marketing2y
Serve your audience first, I’d say. If you’re both solving the same problem in the same way, your messaging will sound very similar, and that’s fine. What you’ll want to ...
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Jane Reynolds
Upstart Product Marketing Director, New Products2y
The benefit of offering features your competitors already have is that consumers understand them—so don't overcomplicate messaging, or try to use unique branding for a pr...
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Jodi Innerfield
Product Marketing Consultant | Formerly Salesforce2y
Messaging should focus on the benefits you deliver to a customer, not the features. When you focus on benefits, you can start truly differentiating based not just on the ...
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