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Does your business have a market positioning strategy<\/a>? What path should you take to beat out the competition?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In their book Positioning<\/em>, Al Ries and Jack Trout<\/a> discuss market positioning strategies for established market leaders, aspiring market leaders, and established leaders entering a new market<\/a>.\u00a0Regardless of your position now, there’s a strategy that fits your business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep reading to learn about these market positioning strategies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Market Positioning Strategies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

How do you cement your position as the market leader<\/a>? Ries and Trout discuss different market positioning strategies depending on whether you already are the market leader and just need to stay there\u2014or whether you want to become<\/em> the market leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strategy for an Established Market Leader<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

If you are already in a position of market leadership, maybe all you need to do is reinforce your existing position. However, according to Ries and Trout, simply advertising that your product is the best won\u2019t convince anyone. You still need a market positioning strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, Ries and Trout recommend promoting yourself as the originator of the genuine article<\/em>. Since leaders are typically the first to occupy their respective positions, this claim seems credible, and it implies that competing products are mere imitations, giving people a reason to buy the real thing from you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: This market positioning strategy assumes that the market is not disrupted by technological breakthroughs. However, in some scenarios, being known as the originator of a genuine article that\u2019s now regarded as obsolete can work against you if everyone wants the new and improved version. In The Innovator\u2019s Dilemma<\/em>, Clayton Christensen explains that disruptive innovations can allow small start-ups to displace established market leaders.<\/a> He explains that the new technology may be first introduced in a niche market<\/a> that is too small for the overall market leader to bother competing in, but if it gains traction there, it may expand into adjacent sectors until it dominates the whole market and displaces the market leader.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strategy for an Aspiring Market Leader<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Suppose you\u2019re not a market leader yet, but you have identified a niche that is worth developing, which nobody else is developing yet. In this case, based on Ries and Trout\u2019s recommendations, we may infer that all you need to become the market leader is a product that fulfills the demand, a suitable name, and an ad campaign that raises awareness about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, their discussion of this scenario also highlights the importance of appealing to expectations and repositioning the competition. It might be a good idea to include these elements in your market positioning strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Appeal to Expectations <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Recall that it’s easier to get a message across if you appeal to people\u2019s expectations. Thus, Ries and Trout point out that if you introduce a totally new product, it\u2019s important to compare it to something they\u2019re familiar with. As an example, they discuss how early automobiles were marketed as \u201chorseless carriages.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Market Alternatives and Product Alternatives<\/a><\/strong>

Moore takes this concept a step further, asserting that people need alternatives to compare your product to before they will position you as the market leader. If you\u2019re introducing a disruptive technology, he recommends presenting it relative to two alternatives: the market alternative and the product alternative.

The market alternative is what your product will most directly compete with in the market. Building on Ries and Trout\u2019s example, the automobile would ultimately replace horse-drawn carriages as people\u2019s primary means of transportation. Thus, calling an automobile a \u201chorseless carriage\u201d helped to position it as a market alternative to horse-drawn carriages.

The product alternative is a product that is based on similar technology but is used for something else. For example, if gasoline-powered railroad engines had caught on before automobiles did, early automakers might have tried marketing their cars as \u201cpersonal locomotives\u201d instead of \u201chorseless carriages.\u201d<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Reposition the Competition<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Ries and Trout also assert that you can establish an advantage in a market sector by repositioning your competitors. To do so, discredit the existing market alternative to your product. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, perhaps you\u2019re a pharmaceutical company looking to introduce a new flu vaccine that\u2019s formulated specifically for women. To become the leader of this niche, you\u2019ll have to convince people that your product is better for women than your competitors\u2019 gender-neutral flu vaccines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, according to Ries and Trout, simply claiming that your product is better in some way is generally not effective. Instead, they advise that if you expose a deficiency of the current lead product, that creates an opening in your niche for a product that overcomes that deficiency, and compels the market to inaugurate a new leader in the new niche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They go on to point out that people are more likely to pay attention to bad news than to good news, which means any bad news about your competitor that you disseminate is likely to get more traction than good news about your product. In our womens\u2019 flu vaccine example, you could run an ad campaign to raise awareness about side effects of the gender-neutral vaccine on women\u2019s health. Then you would present your product as a solution to mitigate the risk of these side effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exploring the Origins of Negativity Bias<\/a><\/strong>

A recent study<\/a> reviewed much of the psychological research to date on negativity bias, or the tendency to weigh negative impressions more heavily than positive ones. It explored many dimensions of negativity bias, ranging from food-based studies with animals to studies of language, culture, and morality across many different populations. It concluded that negativity bias is a real phenomenon that is common in both humans and animals, and may arise partly from natural selection<\/a>: Individuals that fail to react to negative stimuli tend to be eliminated from the population, while there is no comparable effect for positive stimuli. However, the study also concludes that negativity bias is too complex to be explained by natural selection alone, and calls for further research.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Strategy for an Established Leader Entering a New Market<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

What if you\u2019re in a position of market leadership with one product, but you want to launch a new product in a different market sector? Ries and Trout argue that it\u2019s better to introduce a new brand that you can position in the new market even if you\u2019re already a leader in another market. The reason for this is the pitfall of line extensions, which they also discuss in their book. This should be considered when designing this sort of market positioning strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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