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Sunday, January 1, 2012

Product Marketing Plan - Start with a Positioning Statement

You have heard the terms brand positioning but do you now how to create an effective brand positioning? Let me take the complexity out of this and offer you a 5 step process to create a positioning statement to improve your food business marketing strategies.

Clients are amazed at the before and after using the 5 Step Positioning Statement and have gone forward with greater success at new product launch and successfully pitching the retail buyer.

Positioning statements are a way to concisely communicate to web designers, people designing your packaging, your advertising and anyone developing a new product launch plan, what they need to do. Without this, they are flying blind and on your dime! The format is 5 easy to follow steps.

Step 1 - To [the target customer with a problem or need],
Step 2 - [your brand] is the [frame of reference],
Step 3 - -that is the [benefit oriented point of difference]
Step 4 - evidenced by [product features]
Step 5 - The Reason to buy [your brand] is [what?]

This is the construct show let me show you how to do this for a web site in 5 Step Product Positioning.

The FoodPreneur
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1 comments:

  1. An understanding of customer behaviour in store, often gleaned only through trial and error and observation can be used as a positive sales tool. Rationalising consumer psychology in what drives a purchase has led to the formulation of protocol in determining how best to set out a store, appropriate and effective product placement, and establishing an atmosphere of subliminal messages geared towards improving sales.



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