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Video for differentiation, stick to one differentiator

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According to Gartner analyst Hank Barnes , most technology marketers know they need to emphasize differentiators—so they make a list of them. Spotlight your differentiator by comparing it to something the prospect knows. Why not use video for differentiation? Explainer videos can be differentiator videos. Like this post?

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Differentiate or die! It’s the digital marketing curse…

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While I am usually preaching differentiation to large businesses , I have been working with a lot of small businesses lately in my workshops and online courses. And some of them aren’t always happy about my advice, because their differentiation has always been about their location. Let me explain. Or on selection either.

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Tactical video for technology sales and marketing

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Tactical videos have specific objectives: establish a value proposition in the prospect’s mind, put across a memorable product differentiator, describe a new use case. Differentiator video: A short video that describes one differentiator persuasively with a comparison to something the viewer already knows.

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Is your marketing focus internal or external?

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Quite a bit of this is Marketing 101: benefits, not features; pain points; the cost of doing nothing; points of differentiation; and so on. Of course, to do so they have to know what your marketing goals are. Every other decision flows from what you know about your clients and their needs.

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3 blockers of outside-in marketing

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These conversations usually follow a conference talk or internal course I’ve delivered, in which I promote the ideas in our book Outside-In Marketing: Using Big Data to Guide Your Content Marketing. This can be a differentiator for you: using data to get results in a way that is also aesthetically compelling.

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What are you working on for your content marketing?

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You start with your differentiation. You need to identify that differentiation and then pitch all of your content marketing at that target. To find out, consider taking my online course on Content Marketing. Which is actually what this course on content marketing will do for you. How do you get there?

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Crafting content for the buying cycle

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There are exceptions to this, of course, and there can be real opportunity to introducing an entire class of prospects to a solution. This will be your broadest content, the content that would fit nicely in an introductory “101” level course on the subject. Exploration. Beyond that very initial stage comes exploration.