Who you sell to, and why they care
Positioning and messaging
Making a buyer understand in one sentence why you exist and why you are the one to pick.
What is positioning in plain English, and why does everyone insist we have got it wrong?
Positioning is the context you give a buyer so that your strengths look obvious. It is the answer to 'what kind of thing is this and who is it for'...
How do I write a one-line description of what we do that a normal person actually understands?
Stop trying to be clever and name the category first. A stranger needs to file you somewhere in their head before they can care, so 'a CRM for fiel...
Our positioning reads fine on the website but every rep says something different on calls. How do I fix that?
That gap is almost always a sign the positioning was written for the website and never translated into a conversation. Fix it by building the pitch...
How do I build a sales deck that is not just a tour of our features?
Open with a change in the buyer's world, not with your company. Name the shift, show that it creates winners and losers, describe the better state ...
We are changing our positioning. How do I roll it out without breaking the pipeline mid-quarter?
Sequence it: sales first, marketing second, brand last. Reps carry the new story to live deals before the website changes, because they can adapt i...
Do we need to create a new category, or should we position inside one that already exists?
Default to an existing category. Categories are expensive: you are paying to teach a market a new word, and you only earn that back if buyers genui...
How do the best B2B companies get positioning agreed when product, sales and the founders all disagree?
They stop arguing about opinions and go find the buyer's view, because the only competitive alternative that matters is the one the prospect would ...
We are an Indian company selling to global buyers. How do we position so that being from India reads as an asset rather than a question mark?
Do not hide it and do not lead with it. Buyers care about outcome, support and trust, so answer those directly: publish your response times, staff ...