ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

It’s your reputation and ultimate differentiating factor. Indeed’s CMO Paul D’Arcy says their priority is brand awareness and reducing friction: “The number one thing we’re doing is making sure that that product is everywhere and a click away when people are looking for a job or looking to hire.” [ via The Drum ].

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

This is the basis of an effective differentiation strategy. If we’re a B2B company selling into brick-and-mortar retail environments, and we’re looking to find an audience of retail executives, we’ll start with a simple Google search. Compare that to SparkToro’s account, which is more mostly product-focused. Image source.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

This preference isn’t necessarily due to market size, but rather the structure of the market: are there only a few dozen customers that might buy your product or are there thousands, or even tens of thousands of potential customers? How do we differentiate between B2B start-ups that sell to many vs. sell to a few?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

You’d think that no one could recreate a product so sophisticated and advanced as space rockets, right? With enough resources, products can always be copied. It’s tough to compete on product alone and you’re likely to see diminishing returns. Studies show that only 5% of B2B buyers are ready to buy.

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Marketing Social Media Non-Compete Audience 109

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

They’re an invitation to benchmark your goods and product categories. They’re relatively inexpensive, and buyers tend to differentiate cases by style rather than functionality. Or, certain products might be underperforming. Insurers know you’re comparing products, not just the final price. of the time.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Complex products and decisions—rife in the B2B world—encourage us to default to our heuristic judgment. Secrecy can manufacture scarcity: timed or limited releases for physical products, exclusivity for services. Apple employees before a product launch) or a subset of consumers (e.g., So I thought I’d mention that. ?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Complex products and decisions—rife in the B2B world—encourage us to default to our heuristic judgment. Secrecy can manufacture scarcity: timed or limited releases for physical products, exclusivity for services. Apple employees before a product launch) or a subset of consumers (e.g., So I thought I’d mention that. ?

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Barriers to entry are no longer created by patents or by tech differentiation alone, but by superior traction in the marketplace. In today’s web landscape, word of mouth drives adoption and can lead to “winner takes all” (or almost all) in both B2C and B2B markets.

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ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

When researching a new product, buyers use 10 or more channels to interact with companies. If you’ve ever received an email with personalized product recommendations or a retargeting ad on Facebook for a product you left in your cart, that’s omnichannel marketing in action. What is your customer looking to achieve?

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2024

In today’s competitive business landscape, differentiating your brand and amplifying your message requires more than just a great product or service. Whether it’s launching a new product, navigating a crisis, or building long-term brand awareness, a public relations team brings a wealth of expertise to the table.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

2:06] Another aspect in your bio too is the internal creative studio – is that a product or a part of your own marketing? [2:48] 2:48] Has design been a key differentiator for Typeform? [3:23] 8:26] What do you feel is your core differentiator? [10:50] Is that a product or is that just part of your own marketing?

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Marketing Differentiation B2C PR 75

Brandanew

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Writing product stories, case studies and content in general around your product has one overarching purpose- convince and convert. You want the customer to read, get wowed and be interested to contact you if you’re a B2B player. Or simply be convinced to buy if you’re offering a product for direct sales.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2014

How big is the market for Muslim-friendly products and services? They should also consider launching online B2C or B2B platforms incorporating mobile and social-commerce. Through differentiated sourcing, companies can better hedge their risks in the event that the Chinese economy implodes. Asian Companies Going Global.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2019

Most B2B leads don’t become customers. Additionally, most B2B marketers aren’t nurturing lead-magnet downloaders properly. I downloaded 25+ B2B lead magnets and discovered an array of shortcomings: Sending one or no follow-up emails, even when I opted-in to learn more. Watch a product demo. Your product may be expensive.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Last week, in part one of the B2B versus B2C series, I explained there are several reasons as to why entrepreneurs should venture into “B2B” (“Business to Business”) service based companies as opposed to any form of “B2C” (“Business to Consumer”) company, “B2B” product-oriented company or strictly a web-based B2B firm.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Are there use cases for voice search in B2B? They range from straightforward technical optimizations to complex, long-term efforts to differentiate through a superior consumer experience. Instead, a good chunk of all searches are becoming voice searches on mobile phones and—important for B2B—desktops.”. This post has answers.

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View from Seed

JULY 19, 2019

All early stage venture firms essentially look at some weighting of team, market, product, and traction. And additionally, my partners and I use other, more differentiated, lenses like asking if a startup has an “ unfair distribution advantage.” Asking “Is it JDCC?”

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

I’ve founded, led, or invested in a variety of tech and social impact ventures, including co-founding the global B2B software company, webMethods in my basement, where it grew to a global company with 1,100 people and $200m in revenue and was sold to SoftwareAG for $540M. WE had a cool product called the XML application server.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Questions I ask Liz Lathan: [1:11] I read one of your recent LinkedIn posts and you said that community-first companies are growing 30% faster than product-first companies – what is a community-first company in your definition? [6:53] I think B2B companies in particular have probably been slower to come to this idea.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 19, 2018

With that said, here are some opportunities we see for the next generation of large, venture-scale marketplace businesses: Product marketplaces. With Amazon capturing nearly 50% of US e-commerce market , it may seem that there isn’t much room for a new marketplace focused on products. mobile) and/or new or differentiated supply.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2020

When it comes to content marketing, all the branding and differentiation (and money) is in the latter. The first two are more familiar to B2B marketers; the last one often applies to B2C. I’ve been working with a small team on a new CXL product, Adeft. But being right doesn’t create value; empowering others to succeed does.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Differentiation Strategy. You must differentiate your company to get it, yet hardly anyone does. Stop chasing trendy tactics and build a real differentiation strategy. Conversion-Focused Formatting & Layout ” from our Sales copywriting and product messaging course. Learn how. Marketing is a game of attention.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Key Takeaway: Instagram is a powerful tool for companies of any size to make connections with potential customers and promote their products. 18:34] Could you talk about the need for balance in production value in the case of using really high-quality cameras versus shooting natively with a mobile phone? [20:01] 2022) Edition.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 30, 2019

You’ll need to include key differentiators, or how you’re the best option and present enough facts to make them want to read the business proposal. For the best results, you should offer a few products or services that work very well when combined together. Highlight Your Unique Value.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

If you deliver exactly the same results at the same net cost to the customer via a SaaS product, you may get a tech multiple 10X higher. In the long ago I spent a brief period of time assisting Pertec, the San Fernando Valley company that bought MITS and its Altair product line. Price is no longer cost + markup = customer price.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

07:11] With so many tools claiming the same space, how does Databox differentiate itself? [08:43] 06:08): And those partners are big enough and capitalized enough to be able to offer a breadth of services that help the customer implement the entire HubSpot product suite. So it's a free product. What’s your take on that? [09:55]

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Eric Friedman

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Inspired by this tweet, and the rabbit hole of conversations surrounding it, I was motivated to share some thoughts on the similar look and feel of B2B startups. . B2B is finally investing in brand, but missing the mark on differentiation. However, the majority of people that exist are probably *not* users of the product.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 7, 2023

#2- To do more than awareness Photo Credit: Alex McIntosh We use PR to not only bring awareness to our mission-based skincare brand but also to drive actual sales of our products. 4- Communicate effectively Photo Credit: Jamie Mitri I knew that PR would be an effective way to communicate our innovative product. Sales skyrocketed.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2023

ChatGPT's data is two years old and when actual tech humans can't really differentiate easily between pre-seed and seed, who's a lead and who isn't, and whether or not someone is a real fund or just a broker, I wouldn't expect a bot to. Do you generally do pre-product or only when it’s your former analyst? And yes, I tried ChatGPT.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 3, 2016

The name of our company came from the name of our flagship product. Since we’re a mobile app company we wanted a product name that was short, easily remembered, non-controversial and at least somewhat descriptive of the service. I had actually developed the logo in 1999 and it is now on the back of my entire product line.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 17, 2024

Prior to starting MarketMuse in 2015, Jeff was a marketing consultant in Atlanta and led the Traffic, Search and Engagement team for seven years at TechTarget, a leader in B2B technology publishing and lead generation. And that's really the differentiator. It can be as customized as you might want just from the base model.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

The average B2B buyer has 27 brand interactions before deciding. Demand generation combines marketing tactics, strategies and programs to create awareness and drive interest in your products or services. 70% of buyers are already clued up on a product before they talk to sales, if they talk to sales at all.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Companies are working hard to differentiate themselves, so it makes perfect sense if they work doubly hard to keep their secrets safe. An experienced B2B digital marketer, Tesma Gwee has over 10 years of digital experience in global Fortune500 like Salesforce and startup companies, and worked across multi disciplines of digital marketing.

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Up and Running

MAY 11, 2021

That could be why roughly 83 percent of B2B companies currently use email newsletters for marketing. Yes, they know that you’ll include some product pitches and offers from time to time, but they likely signed up for another reason. It could be a limited edition product and a time-limited discount.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 5, 2019

For example, Is the person who uses your product/service the decision-maker, or is there someone higher up? Psychographics can provide insight on the “why” —what problem consumers need to solve and their concerns or opinions that relate to your product. Are these people that could benefit from using our product/service?

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Austin Startup

JULY 12, 2010

One, a focus on great customer care has become, in the era of Zappos, not just a requisite checkbox, but an opportunity for differentiation, and a primary means of acquiring and retaining users (customer care as a revenue generator, not just a cost center). Two trends since that incident have made the issue even more important today.

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Customer Harvest B2C Technical Review 80

Up and Running

MAY 22, 2013

We’ve all heard the horror stories about how hard it can be to successfully launch a new product to the market. In a consumer product category such as household cleaning products, the industry success rate is a dismal 15 percent to 20 percent according to a Bloomberg Businessweek interview with former Proctor & Gamble CEO, Alan “A.G.”

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Product Marketing Forecast B2B 75