Product Management playbook/Module 3 · Strategy

Day 22 / 100 · Strategy · Positioning

Own a place in their mind.

Positioning is the context customers use to judge you: what you are, who you're for, and why you beat the alternative.

For [best-fit customer] who [need], [product] is a [category] that [key value]. Unlike [the alternative], we [what's truly different].

The Positioning Statement

The real alternative

Often not a competitor. It's “do nothing” or a workaround.

What's truly different

Only what you have that the alternative doesn't.

The value it creates

Why that difference matters to them.

Best-fit customers

Who cares the most about that value.

Source: Kaizenko ↗

For everyone means for no one.