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Exton Region Chamber of Commerce
Denise M. DunckleyPresidentStriking Changes, LLC
Differentiating Your Company, Service, or Product
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What is Differentiation?
• Articulating the UNIQUE qualities you or your products offer to the marketplace
• And it’s more “Quicker, Cheaper, Better” -- (everyone says that!)
• It’s about improving your impact
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Great Quote!
• “A company's ignorance of its own strongest qualities can sink it, -- and identifying those strengths is not easy.”
Jonathan Gaw
IDC, Research Manager
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Five Steps to Successful Differentiation
1. Articulating Your Company, Service, or Product
2. Understanding Your Target Audience or Customers
3. Picking Your Strengths
4. Developing Your Positioning Statement
5. Proving IT!
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Articulating Your Company, Service, or Product
• Ask yourself the tough questions– Why is my company better?– How is my company better?– What do my customers say about me?– Why would I buy my own products?– What is my greatest asset?
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Understanding Your Target Audience
• How do they buy?– In person, on-line, direct mail
• Why do they buy?– Because I am solving a problem or providing a necessity
• When do they buy?– Every week, once a month, once a year
• Are my customers “one-time” or “repeat” buyers?• Are my customers buying on impulse or after careful
consideration?
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Picking Your Strengths
• Remember, you can’t be all things to all people.• As a society, and as a world, we are inundated
with information. The statistics are staggering.– “You have to select the material that has the best
chance of getting through.”» Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
» Al Ries and Jack Trout
• Target your message – keep it simple.
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Picking Your Strengths
• Define yourself in tangible attributes
• Quantitative measures– Speed, accuracy, price, amount
• Qualitative measures– Harder to identify… so, think in terms of
experience, expertise, inherent traits
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Developing Your Positioning Statement
• Once you’ve identified your strength -- in one phrase or less – encapsulate your message
• Less is more!– QVC – “Quality, Value and Convenience”– StateFarm – “Like a good neighbor,
StateFarm is there.”
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Fast Food Chains – Quick Identification
• Wendy’s Restaurants
• Burger King
• Dominos Pizza
• Subway
• Boston Market
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Products – Highly Competitive
• Listerine• Aquafresh• Bounty Paper Towels• Hallmark Cards • Saturn• Volvo• Oooops! Coke
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Add Value or Redefine Your Services
• Progressive Insurance
• Enterprise Rental Car
• H&R Block
• Saturn
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Prove IT!
• Be Credible -- put your name on it!
• Offer a guarantee
• Supply an incentive
• Customers speak volumes
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Don’t be afraid to try something new…
• Partnerships are a great way to help differentiate and promote your company– If you’re Welch's Grape Jelly – call up Skippy
Peanut Butter. Ask yourself how you might be able to offer a superior product by partnering with someone who can add to the quality of your product.
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And, do a competitive analysis!
• If you are having difficulty articulating your own differentiators… check out your competitors.
• What are they saying about themselves? How are they approaching their customers? What are their strengths?
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And above all – be creative!