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Your Unique Value Proposition

You can overcome your competitionĀ by offering products or services that are unique to your industry. When attempting to set your business apart from the rest with a unique product or service, you may arrive at situations where your customer does not fully understand your unique benefits. You will need to educate your customers on why your product or service is better for their personal or business needs.

A potential setback of creating differentiators such as unique features, services, and benefits, is that you are open to imitation by your competitionĀ if your differentiators are not proprietary. In this sense, your uniqueness will last only as long as it takes your competition to mimic your approach. Additionally, by offering too many differentiators or products, your customers could become confused, overwhelmed, or feel that you’re trying to sell them something they don’t need. To resolve this, take precautions and carefully educate your customers on the offerings and the importance and relevancy of the additional products or services.

Value Proposition. Customers have more options at their disposal than ever before, with that in mind, a well-drafted value proposition should be at the core of your sales collateral to solidify your competitive advantage. A value proposition is a statement of promise in terms of overall value delivered to the customer, and is a major factor in increasing sales. A value proposition helps you define how your product is the better solution for your customers’ needs. A strong value proposition is persuasive and outlines why the customer should purchase your product or service over the competition.

Having an effective and unique value proposition (UVP) is of critical importance as it distinguishes your business from your competitors. A UVP should uniquely identify the value of your business and should resonate strongly with your customers. For example, if you offer a product or service for the price of $10, and your competitor offers the same product or service for $11, what stops your competitor from stealing your customer if they match or lower their price? While price is considered a UVP, unless it is tremendously lower than the competition, you need to offer better and more UVPs.

UVPs may include:

  • Better price point
  • Better product quality
  • Better location
  • Better customer service/ hours
  • Better warranty / guarantee

Your business can evaluate and enhance customer benefits through gaining feedbackĀ from reviews of current, previous, and potential customers. Through this method, flaws within your business can be identified and needed corrections made. Another valuable method is to monitor your competitors’ marketingĀ efforts, as well as gain insight into your reputation,Ā by reviewing forums, complaint boards, and competitor websites for credibility, design, and customer testimonials.

Unique Value Proposition:

Your company should be able to test important benefits and needs through gaining feedback from current, previous and potential customers on their view of the company. Through this method you should be able to find flaws within the company and make the needed corrections. On average, a company’s website should get redesigned 1 – 2 times per year based on your customer feedback. This will help you keep up with the latest styles and designs of today and tomorrow and compete within the highly competitive market.

Another valuable method to use is continuing to view your competitors online and offline presence. By reviewing forums, complaint boards and competitor websites for credibility, design and customer testimonials, you will be able to find flaws and/or gain valuable insight on your design and customer service.

To track the affect of your user website experience, use online tools such as Google analytics, Quantcast and Alexa to track user navigation, user stay, user region, and user search keywords.

Another way to test the UVP is through the use of customer feedback forms which you should have implemented into your website or within your company. This is proven to work with other companies and you should work on creating a valuable customer feedback forms that you can use to help create a more successful company through continually finding and satisfying the needs and wants of your customers.

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