Smart Marketing Tip: Clearly Define Your Positioning Message
Your positioning message distinguishes your offerings from other companies’ in a way that matters to customers, so they know why they should buy from you – and not the competition!
4 elements you must define to craft a strong positioning statement:
Element #1: Your target market: Who are your customers?
- Where are they? ______________________________________
- What are their relevant demographics? (Job title, are they a decision maker?)
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- What are their “pain points” in business (i.e., real or perceived problems they face)
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Element #2: Your category: What’s the label customers use to define what you are?
Think of your category as the label customers use to define what you are – allowing them to compare apples to apples, so to speak. Unlike the other elements of a positioning message, your category isn’t what makes you unique; it’s where your products/services stand in relation to customers’ other options.
My customers view me as… a supplier, vendor, tech product, sale tools etc : _________________
Element #3: Your primary differentiator(s): What do you do better or differently than anyone else?
a. Why do customers buy from you? (i.e., What sets you apart from the competition?)
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b. What problems do you solve? (i.e., How are your products or services relevant?)
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c. How do you make people’s lives better? (i.e., What are the quantifiable benefits your products or services deliver?)
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Element #4: The reason to believe: Why should customers have confidence in your claims?
How does your product or service help your customers solve their problems more… efficiently, cost-effectively etc.
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A standard positioning statement can be constructed in the following way:
For (target audience), (brand name) is the (category) that delivers (unique differentiators) because only (brand name) is (reason to believe).
Try it…
For (_________________________________),
(______________) is the (______________) that delivers
(_________________________) because only (______________)
is (___________________________________________________).
Are you working on your company’s messaging?
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