You can have the most fantastic business-to-business (B2B) software or technology solution, but it’s not going to win in the market until it wins its own unique position in your prospects’ minds.
Learn a proven framework that will help you own a special position with real meaning to your target market. Messages that Matter offers a “how-to” positioning workshop on-site or on-line that gives your company the knowledge and tools to position for marketing success. Click here to download our positioning workshop brochure.
The workshops present a proven framework for developing positioning strategies that create awareness and demand for your B2B software, solution or service. The benefits of effective positioning include:
- Increased sales, market share and profit
- Stronger preference for your company’s brands
- Higher competitive barriers
- Committed, lifetime customers
- Marketing efficiency
In the positioning workshops, taught by Messages that Matter co-founder Lawson Abinanti, you learn how to create compelling, unique positioning strategies. Learn how to create a benefit-oriented message strategy that address your target markets’ most pressing concern, and the importance of executing it consistently in all marketing communications.
On-site workshops start with a morning session detailing our positioning framework, followed by an afternoon session in which teams apply what they have learned.
The morning session and the on-line workshop present a framework that clarifies the assumptions, procedures, questions and evaluation criteria needed to develop effective positioning for your product, service, solution, offering or company. It includes:
- Three Key Assumptions to start brainstorming
- Analyzing the Three Cs – customers, competition and channel
- Three Questions to ask during message strategy development
- The Three “Whats” – What is it? What does it do? What does it deliver?
- The Four Criteria for evaluating your positioning statement
- Validating potential positioning strategies
Our positioning framework addresses several problems commonly found in B2B high technology marketing, such as:
- Me-Too Marketing – Competitors often employ virtually identical message strategies in communicating to prospective customers;
- The message does not matter to the target audience. Marketing campaigns fail because they are not carefully targeted nor do they communicate a compelling benefit.
- Claims that fail any reasonable test of credibility;
- Long sales cycles due to market confusion; i.e., unclear, me-too marketing;
- Product is Hero – The mistaken belief that positioning is about the product and its features.
- A shotgun approach that usually misses the target by claiming multiple benefits instead of a single, compelling benefit message.
The morning and on-line session conclude with an explanation about how to develop support points for the positioning statement, how to manage your message, and the benefits of an effective message strategy.
The on-line workshop lasts 90 minutes, and usually goes longer. Questions are answered throughout the workshop. The on-line workshop fee is $397 and includes an Excel application (not available for purchase) that creates perceptual maps that make it easy to see how you are positioned relative to the competition. The fee also includes a 20-minute coaching session to review your work that results from following the positioning framework step-by-step.
The on-site positioning workshop includes afternoon hands-on breakout sessions during which your marketing and product marketing professionals apply what they have just learned in the morning session. Topics are tailored to your specific needs and can include: 1) an analysis of competitors’ positioning strategies; 2) assessment of your existing positioning and message strategy; 3) positioning a new product, solution or service. In each case, small groups work independently and then present and defend their findings in front of the group.
Workshop participants learn to create well-documented message strategies that serve as the foundation for all marketing communications. By creating a message strategy, you can more easily deliver the same message across all marketing media including web sites, brochures, advertisements and presentations to investors, industry analysts and prospects. By consistently repeating your message, you’ll create the awareness and demand that will give you the position you want in your market.
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Call us at (425) 985-0125 or email to discuss scheduling an on-site positioning workshop. Click here to sign up for the on-line workshop available at your convenience.