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Positioning

Win the desired position in the minds of people

Vadim Kotelnikov, founder of 1000ventures - personal logo VadiK

Inventor Business e-Coach

Author Innoball

Founder Innompic Games icon

 

 

Positioning is about how you differentiate your brand, company, product or service in the mind of your prospects and customers on a long-term basis. It is an organized system for finding a window in the mind of your prospect in order to position effectively over there your value proposition against its main competitors.

  What is Positioning: key elements

 

Vadim Kotelnikov business guru, teaching positioning by example

It's not enough to be valuable. You also need to be highly remarkable and memorable to position your brand in the minds of your customers.

~ Vadim Kotelnikov

 

Positioning is the art and craft of creating a positive, differentiated, and distinctive impression of your brand or product in the mind of your customer. From the customer's perspective, positioning is not an outside-in promotion, it's an inside-out perception.

 

 

 

Vadim Kotelnikov

Coaching by Example

I'm not selling you my past and present,
I'm offering you your greater future

Vadim Kotelnikov, founder of 1000ventures - personal logo VadiK

Inventor

Author

Founder

 

   

I practice what I preach, and I preach what I practice.

 

 

 

Invented and launched in 2001, KoRe e-Coach became the world's first online resource for free inspirational business education. The slogan "We don't teach, we inspire" helped position e-Coach, differentiating it from traditional business schools.

 

 

 

Innompic Games vs. traditional social networks

Traditional social networks are horizontalthey help people socialize.

Innompics is both vertical and horizontal. It helps Innompians both grow and connect at the deeper level.

  Creating Value Online Social Networks: Opportunities and Strategies Twitter Fun4Biz: entrepreneurial creativity contests Innompics Differentiated 10 Success Lessons from Facebook Why Google+ failed VadiK Instagram Competitive Differentiation Example of Positioning and Differentiation: Innompic Games

 

 

HARMONY Games differentiated and positioned

If man is the pinnacle of creation,
then the creative HARMONY Games that celebrate the harmony of soul, mind, and body are the pinnacle of the games.

  Example of Positioning: HARMONY Games positioned

 

 

 

 

 

The Essence of Positioning

Positioning is a new approach to differentiation, communication, advertising and marketing.  It is an organized system for finding a window in the mind of your prospect in order to position effectively over there a product – a brand, a company, a merchandise, a service, or a person – against its main competitors in today's overcommunicated society.

 

Positioning

10 Positioning Tips

Examples

Differentiation

Stand Out

Competitive Differentiation

Examples

 

 

 

 

 

 

Get Heard in the Overcommunicated Society

The rapid growth of communication methods has given us a new disease: Information Overload Syndrome. In today's overcommunicated society, to be successful, you must touch base with reality. And the only reality that counts is what's already in the prospect's mind. In the communication jungle out there, there are just too many products, too many companies, and too much marketing noise. The mind, as a defense against the huge volume of today's communications, screens and rejects much of the information it offered. The only hope to score big is to be selective, to concentrate on narrow targets, to practice segmentation. In a word, "positioning".

 

Brand Positioning

KoRe 10 Positioning Tips

10 Commandments of Positioning

Psychology-based Differentiation

Depositioning Competitors

 

 

 

"The easy way to get into a person's mind is to be first. If you can't be first, then you must find a way to position yourself against the products, the politicians, the persons who did get there before you." ~ Jack Trout

 

 

 

 

"The basic approach of positioning is not to create something new and different, but to manipulate what's already up in your prospect's mind, to retie the connection that already exist. The advertising people spend their time and research money looking for positions, or holes, in the marketplace."

~ Positioning, Al Ries and Jack Trout

   
 

Oversimplified Message

In communication, more is less. The best approach to take in our overcommunicated society, where only a tiny fraction of all messages actually gets through,  is the oversimplified message. You have to sharpen your message to cut into the mind if you want to make a long-lasting impression.

 

Slogan

Value Mantra

Headlines

USP

 

 

 

Use the Right Colors in Your Promotional Materials

Analyze what colors your competitors use. Avoid using colors already associated with your competitor if you wish to position your product effectively in the mind of your prospects... More

 

Marketing Is About Dealing with Perceptions

 

 

 

 

Research-based Exercise

Positioning a company is a difficult task. While advertising is a creative task, company positioning must be developed from careful research about your brand. You must find out:

▪ how the marketplace sees your company

how your customers see your company and what they value

what you know about your own company and the customer value it creates.

Positioning should be a foundation for action to design, manage and defend your brand. It should inform everything you do: what customer value you create, what you value, what's your sustainable competitive advantage, how you conduct your business, how you communicate and interact with customers.

 

Customer Insight

Customer Needs

What Makes People Buy

Observe People

Customers' Perception of Quality

Customer Feedback